Paula Musich

Cisco Systems Inc. earlier this week tackled the complexity issues surrounding deployment of quality of service functions in its switches and routers with new automation features. Cisco embedded the new AutoQoS function within its IOS and Catalyst Operating System software, allowing users to automate configuration of QoS functions across its switches and routers. AutoQoS is […]

IBM and American Express will begin delivering on the agreement they struck last year to take IBMs Web-based expense reporting and reconciliation tool, customized by Amex, and make it available to Corporate Card customers. American Express next week will begin marketing the new tool, which will be hosted by IBM Global Services at its data […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. launched Monday a new network planning and design architecture that seeks to rewrite the rules of campus network design. While campus LANs today are designed with all or most of the network intelligence residing in the core of the network in large, expensive modular switches, HPs new ProCurve Networking Adaptive Edge Architecture advocates […]

Compuware Corp. this week hopes to simplify tool administration with the introduction of Web consoles that span multiple tools in their respective management suites. Compuware plans to ship this week Version 8.5 of its Vantage suite of network, system and client management software with a common Web interface. The rollout will come close on the […]

Force10 Networks Inc. last week gave 10 Gigabit Ethernet a shove down the price curve with a 44 percent reduction in the cost of its line cards. The move comes as prices for the emerging high-speed networking technology have begun to inch downward among the primary vendors supplying 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. Since Extreme Networks […]

BMC Software Inc. this week will incorporate fault management into its Visualis network performance modeling tool. Patrol Visualis Fault Manager, a component of Patrol Visualis 1.3, uses the same map to show performance data actively gathered through polling of network resources as well as reactive availability information. “In the same tool, you can look at […]

Foundry Networks Inc. this week will extend the high and low ends of the companys switch/router product line as it looks to satisfy customers trying to reduce the number of vendors they must deal with. At the high end, Foundry will introduce a two-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet line card for its high-speed, chassis-based switches. At […]

Peribit Networks earlier this week launched a new low-end option in its unique line of WAN bandwidth-saving devices and added a new centralized configuration and management tool for the devices. The startup, which applied DNA research techniques to improve expensive WAN bandwidth utilization in a manner akin to data compression, added a new hardware option […]

Computer Associates International Inc. grew its revenue by 4 percent to $778 million in its third fiscal quarter for 2003, which ended December 31. The Islandia, N.Y., company narrowed its third quarter net loss to $44 million, compared to a net loss of $231 million for the same quarter a year earlier. CA beat Wall […]

BMC Software Inc. Monday moved to consolidate fault management into its Visualis network performance modeling tool. The new Patrol Visualis Fault Manager, released as a part of Patrol Visualis 1.3, uses the same map to show both performance data actively gathered through polling of network resources as well as reactive availability information. “In the same […]