Paula Musich

Mercury Interactive Corp. came out with both barrels blazing last week, introducing an integration alliance with Citrix Systems Inc. and a release of its SiteScope monitoring tool that is integrated with its ActiveWatch performance monitoring service. Mercury, of Sunnyvale, Calif., is teaming with Citrix to create the first native load testing and performance monitoring tools […]

IBM, in a new campaign to exploit the tools it created to transform itself into an e-business company, announced last week that American Express Co. will market its electronic expense reporting system to thousands of small and midsize businesses. Amex, in New York, will market a customized version of the IBM Web-based expense reporting and […]

After surviving startup mode during the worst of the recession, network performance management vendor NetQoS Inc. on Monday announced a major new release of its SuperAgent tool. The Austin, Texas, company made its SuperAgent 2.0 appliance more appealing to larger enterprises by enabling administrators to set up multiple appliances from a central console and by […]

When response times degrade for hosted applications, or Internet access seems to slow to a crawl, network managers have had to endure the finger pointing that ensues with service providers. But new technology from a small startup could give them the proof they need to take to the service provider to get the problems resolved. […]

Concord Communications Inc. next week will launch a re-architected version of its eHealth performance reporting software that promises seamless reporting across large, geographically dispersed networks. The latest release of eHealth, which the company is targeting large network service providers and large enterprises with global networks, was redesigned to provide distributed analysis and scale well beyond […]

Mercury Interactive Corp. came out with both barrels blazing this week with news on two fronts: an integration alliance with Citrix Systems Inc. and a new release of its SiteScope monitoring tool, acquired with Freshwater Software Inc., that is integrated with its ActiveWatch performance monitoring service. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company is teaming up with Citrix […]

Novell continued to shuffle its executive deck today with the departure of three more executives. The move, one day after CTO Carl Ledbetter was named Senior Vice President for Engineering/Research and Development, is part of an ongoing executive restructuring taking place at Novell, officials said. Separately, Novell officials acknowledged that Chairman and CEO Jack Messman […]

As more enterprises roll out J2EE-based e-commerce applications, users are finding that the tools available to monitor and trouble-shoot such complex software often fall short. Last week, two startups delivered new releases of their dueling Java 2 Enterprise Edition application trouble-shooting tools. The releases promise to cut the time it takes to pinpoint the source […]

SAN FRANCISCO – IBM and Avaya Inc. on Tuesday at IBMs PartnerWorld conference here announced a global strategic alliance to jointly address the customer relationship management software market. The alliance, which grew out of a deal struck last year to integrate the Avaya Unified Messenger with IBMs Lotus Notes messaging platform, calls for joint development, […]

SAN FRANCISCO–Sam Palmisano in his keynote here at PartnerWorld tried to rally IBM business partners around IBM platforms and IBMs vision of where the computing industry is headed. The IBM president and soon-to-be CEO, echoing a theme voiced by partners, urged them to join IBM to “go get business in this environment—as tough as it […]