Paula Musich

A little-known startup on Monday will try to make a big impression on Web services developers with a performance optimization tool that can eliminate much of the overhead associated with Web services transactions. Chutney Technologies Inc. will introduce its Chutney Apptimizer for SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), designed to eliminate much of the processing overhead […]

Visual Networks Inc. next week will expand the reach of its Visual Uptime WAN performance management tool with the ability to monitor 15 more application protocols. Visual Uptime 7.1, which will be launched on Monday, will be able to monitor such WAN traffic as voice over IP via H.323 and Session Initiation Protocol; databases such […]

Imagine being able to securely monitor, control and report on the performance and availability of workstations and servers from a PDA. Little known startup ProductivityNet Inc. intends to provide administrators with just that capability in the latest release of its ActiveManage tool, which will debut at Networld + Interop in Las Vegas next month. ActiveManage […]

Resonate Inc. next week will announce it is extending its monitoring and management of IBMs WebSphere to include the components the Web application server interacts with most. The Sunnyvale, Calif., service-level management company will extend its Resonate Commander Solutions suite to monitor and manage IBMs MQSeries middleware, HTTP Server, AIX operating system and IBMs DB2 […]

Management supplier Configuresoft Inc. raised the bar on centralized management of Windows NT and Windows 2000 desktop and server configurations this week with the latest release of its Enterprise Configuration Manager. ECM 4.0 can now manage the system and security configurations of up to 10,000 machines from a single, centralized database of hardware and system […]

Marimba Inc. last week picked up the automation drumbeat being pounded out by management software rivals Tivoli, an IBM unit, and others when it rolled out the latest release of its Desktop/Mobile Management product line. New scheduling functions in Version 5.0 of the Marimba suite, along with streamlined deployment, are intended to extend Marimbas lead […]

Microsoft Corp. announced last week it has extended its Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Program to AIPs, the first such certification for application infrastructure providers, officials said. The first AIPs certified under the program include Digex Inc., Divine Inc., Genuity Inc., Intel Online Services Inc. and Loudcloud Inc. The program, which builds on the application service […]

More than five years ago—before the term “management service provider” was ever uttered—Wyndham International Inc. went looking for an outsourcer that could take over day-to-day management of its WAN. At a time when most such services were provided by the telecommunications carriers, the hotelier found startup NetSolve Inc. offering what it claimed was a compelling […]

System Management Arts Inc. at NetWorld+Interop next month will give IT operators a crack at better pinpointing the root cause of application services performance problems across the networks, systems and software processes that support them. System Management Arts, also known as Smarts, will extend its information modeling technology and patented Codebook Correlation Technology to the […]

MSP startup InterOps Management Solutions Inc. on Monday rolled out the second major release of its Internet operations management platform. The management service provider, targeted at providing remote operations management services focused on the Internet sites of larger companies in the financial services sector, created a next generation version of its Reflex services delivery platform. […]