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Path Communications Inc. will recast itself this week as an application behavior management specialist when it unveils its flagship tool designed to learn how Java applications behave and detect code-level abnormalities. But while the former consultancy may enjoy first-mover status in the ABM realm, its PAM (Path Application Manager) tool likely wont remain unique for […]

Startup Quantiva Inc. hopes to break into the Web transaction management space with a tool that draws on sophisticated mathematical algorithms to automate diagnosis of Web transaction problems from the customers perspective. The Quantiva Analysis System, announced Monday, is a service designed to help business-to-business (B2B) applications operators detect and diagnose performance problems before they […]

Low-cost software-based protocol analysis vendor Network Instruments LLC on Monday will make its first foray into WAN protocol analysis with its new WAN Observer. The protocol analysis and monitoring provider is moving into hardware-based protocol analyzers with the new WAN analyzer because of a lack of WAN interfaces in standard PC architectures. Network Instruments still […]

Unisys Corp. on Monday announced it has signed a three-year contract extension for outsourced IT services with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania valued at $252 million. The original “Data Powerhouse” contract, signed in 1999 and in effect until 2006, is valued at $621 million. While the original contract called for Unisys to consolidate the roughly 20 […]

A Pleasanton, Calif., software company has developed a tool kit to simplify the process of preparing applications for monitoring and management. AdventNet Inc. last week announced ManageEngine Suite 5, aimed at ISVs and corporate developers. The tool automates instrumentation for J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) applications using the JMX (Java Management Extensions) standard, and it […]

IBMs Tivoli unit last week introduced a sweeping set of enhancements and new tools that begin to deliver on IBMs autonomic computing initiative. Among the 26 new or enhanced management offerings IBM announced are new security and storage management tools that integrate products acquired in the acquisitions of Access360 Corp. and TrelliSoft Inc. The Access360 […]

Advanced Systems Concepts Inc. early next month will release a new version of its Active Batch distributed job scheduling tool that promises greater flexibility and ease of use. Despite the predominance of real-time processing, company officials believe that batch processing in the distributed processing world is needed now more than ever, thanks to the need […]

Greenwich Technology Partners next week will launch a new services offering aimed at helping enterprises reduce IT costs by helping them to consolidate their IT infrastructures. The White Plains, N.Y., consulting firms IT Infrastructure Consolidation Solutions cover a range of consolidation projects, including server, storage, data centers and network operations center consolidation. GTP formalized the […]

By monitoring their use of expensive WAN resources, organizations can usually find new ways to save costs. But keeping tabs on such resources requires WAN probes that can recognize new traffic types. With that in mind, Compuware Corp. next week will introduce a new release of its NetworkVantage monitoring tool that can track network utilization […]

IBMs Tivoli unit at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday introduced a sweeping set of enhancements and new tools that begin to deliver on IBMs autonomic computing initiative. Among the 26 new or enhanced management offerings IBM announced are new security and storage management tools that integrate products acquired with Access360 and TrelliSoft Inc. […]