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Cisco Systems Inc. last week rolled out a laundry list of new and enhanced IP telephony products designed to help customers increase end-user productivity. The products run the gamut from a new low-end IP phone to an executive assistant tool that allows administrators to manage phone calls for up to five executives. With an eye […]

Opsware Inc. this week will unveil its newest data center tool, which adds the ability to automate software change management across multiple data centers. Opsware System 3.5, along with its new Multi-Master capability, adds the ability to automatically discover software down to the patch level running on systems in the data center. It also adds […]

A new Texas startup hopes to hit a home run with its new multivendor network device configuration tool. AlterPoint Inc. on Monday launched its DeviceAuthority tool designed to automate the configuration and administration of networking devices from a whos who of networking vendors, including Cisco Systems Inc., Nortel Networks Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Co., Foundry Networks Inc., […]

Along with outlining its strategy for adaptive management for IT infrastructure, Hewlett-Packard Co. on Tuesday will introduce a series of new and enhanced OpenView tools, which provide the foundation for its adaptive management vision. HP will move its OpenView tools beyond traditional monitoring and alerting to be able to intelligently respond to changing demands by […]

Israeli database accelerator startup InfoCyclone Ltd. at this weeks Oracle World conference in San Francisco will show off its flagship appliance designed to help enterprises boost database performance without having to pay for costly server upgrades. The InfoCyclone acceleration appliance, installed between the application servers and database servers, monitors and analyzes SQL query traffic, identifies […]

Cisco Systems Inc. on Tuesday rolled out a laundry list of new and enhanced IP telephony products designed to help customers increase end-user productivity. The new and enhanced products run the gambit from a new low-end IP Phone to an executive assistant tool that allows administrators to manage phone calls for up to five executives. […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is making a run at a key piece of the Web services industry and is leveraging its system management software to do it. The Palo Alto, Calif., company next week will announce its Adaptive Management Platform, which is built around HPs OpenView management software and serves as an end-to-end service management infrastructure, sources […]

Service level management provider InfoVista S.A. this week at the Networld + Interop trade show in Paris brought out the latest release of its Vista Portal and a set of pre-defined performance reports combined with its configuration manager. VistaPortal, the Paris-based companys flagship browser-based console, provides a centralized view of performance and service-level management data […]

Automating software change management across multiple data centers will become a reality next week with the latest release of Opsware Inc.s data center automation tool. Opsware System 3.5, along with its new Multi-Master capability, adds the ability to automatically discover software, down to the patch level, running on systems in the data center and also […]

Despite the downturn and weak service provider market, Cisco Systems Inc. managed to post a 9 percent revenue increase to $4.8 billion for its first fiscal quarter of 2003, compared to the same year-ago period. Net income for the quarter rose to $618 million or 8 cents a share, compared to a net loss of […]