Paula Musich

Network General will turn yet another page on its 20-plus year history when NetScout Systems on Sept. 20 announces its plans to acquire the company in an estimated $205 million deal. NetScout Systems, which has had a 20-year joint history with Network General, intends to combine its network probe, real-time monitoring and reporting technology with […]

EMC on Sept. 17 launched a grab bag of new management tools that range from compliance and performance management to IT process and IPv6 availability management. EMC is joining a growing chorus of management software providers that are customizing their configuration management or provisioning tools to address the need for IT to adhere to government […]

Data center provisioning provider Opsware is adding a much needed level of automation into the next major version of its server, network and now storage provisioning suite. Three days before Hewlett-Packard closes the deal to buy the company, Opsware at its Opsworld user conference in San Diego on Sept. 18 completed its data center provisioning […]

For merchants and financial institutions, figuring out how to comply with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard requirements can be a real guessing game. Network change and configuration management provider Voyence on Sept. 17 hopes to take the guesswork out of PCI compliance for network operators with its new VoyenceControl PCI Advisor. Because the PCI […]

Symantec on Sept. 13 gave customers a progress report on its efforts to integrate its $830 million Altiris acquisition into product portfolio and launched its new Altiris Privilege Management Essentials bundle. Unlike previous acquisitions, Symantec chose to set up Altiris as a separate business unit. But despite its separate organization, which generated revenues of $230 […]

When Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers mapped the next step in the vendors Data Center 3.0 initiative at VMworld Sept. 12, he and Cisco were reaching beyond their traditional stronghold in the NOC to data center managers they hope will embrace its provisioning automation message. For its strategy to work, Cisco has to gain the […]

Cisco Systems on Sept. 12 will try to create momentum behind its recently outlined Data Center 3.0 initiative at VMworld when the company announces the integration of its new VFrame Data Center provisioning appliance with VMwares Virtual Infrastructure 3. The integration, which Cisco CEO John Chambers will discuss in his first keynote address at VMworld, […]

Enterasys Networks on Sept. 17 will launch a major overhaul and upgrade of its NetSight network management suite. Enterasys focused the re-architected suite, which manages both Enterasys secure network switches as well as third-party network devices, on lowering the cost of administering the tool as well as on improving security in the network. The NetSight […]

IP PBX startup Simicomm hopes to elbow its way into the open-source market IP PBX market for small and medium-size businesses with the Sept. 10 release of its first offering. Simicomm released for general availability its new EasySpeak PBX, based in part on the open-source Asterisk, with a series of enhancements that make the product […]

Hewlett-Packards ProCurve networking unit on Sept. 10 will cap its drive to be the primary challenger to Cisco Systems in the network switching arena when it launches its first core chassis switch. The new ProCurve Switch 8212zl, which uses HPs own ProVision application-specific integrated circuits, is intended to be ProCurves primary challenger to Ciscos Catalyst […]