Paula Musich

Avanade Inc. last week became the latest consultancy to follow the IT consulting dollars to a formalized set of services intended to help clients get the most out of their servers, storage and infrastructure. As new systems integration projects become increasingly scarce, the Seattle-based company is among a growing number of IT consulting and outsourcing […]

Network trouble-shooting startup Jaalam Technologies Inc. this week will launch a lightweight, portable version of its flagship product to deliver what it hopes will be the next must-have tool for network engineers. After months of gathering feedback from early users, the Vancouver, British Columbia, company is revamping its AppareNet software, making it faster and less […]

Web applications management provider Tonic Software Inc. this week announced it has refined its flagship software to speed time-to-repair for application failures. Tonic Version 3.0, which provides fault monitoring, problem isolation, reporting and automated resolution for applications running on IBM WebSphere and BEA WebLobic servers, adds new correlation functions that help to reduce the number […]

Keynote Systems Inc. late Monday reported that its revenues increased 2 percent to $9.7 million for its fourth fiscal quarter, ended September 30, but that it recorded a larger than expected net loss of $53.9 million or $1.93 per share. Although the San Mateo, Calif., Internet performance management testing provider had expected to record a […]

Micromuse Inc. saw quarterly revenues slip as the network management software maker continued to be hurt by the telecom slide. The company is planning layoffs as a result. The San Francisco vendor Tuesday reported revenues of $25 million for its fourth quarter, slightly less than projected, and a net loss of $56.5 million. “The September […]

Startup Quantiva Inc. hopes to break into Web transaction management with a tool that draws on sophisticated mathematical algorithms to automate the diagnosis of transaction problems from the customers perspective. The Quantiva Analysis System, announced last week, is a service designed to help business-to-business site operators detect and diagnose performance problems before they affect end […]

Web performance testing heavyweight Keynote Systems Inc. will bulk up even more this week, launching five services that move it into promising new testing areas, including content- and user-experience analysis. The enhancements are designed to help enterprises keep their Web sites healthy and focused on business needs, as well as reduce the finger pointing that […]

BMC Software Inc. Thursday became the latest software company to turn in improved financial results for its second fiscal 2003 quarter, earning four cents a share and posting net income of $10.1 million, compared with a 22 cent loss and net loss of $53.3 million for the same quarter a year earlier. Excluding special charges, […]

Monitoring appliance provider Silverback Technologies Inc. on Monday will jump ship from Linux to Microsoft Corp.s .Net platform in the latest update to its InfoCare network, system and application monitoring tool. InfoCare 3.5, which now runs on the appliance version of Windows 2000, exploits the operating systems event log to give users access to valuable […]

Computer Associates International Inc. today reported better than a five percent boost in its second fiscal quarter revenues to $772 million a jump from $733 million in the same period last year. The positive performance helped the software maker reduce its net loss to $52 million, compared to a net loss of $291 million for […]