Paula Musich

Ciscos WebEx unit launched Sept. 10 the fall update of its Web conferencing and collaboration suite, which includes a series of enhancements aimed at making Web conferencing easier and more useful after meetings are over. Among the latest enhancements to the suite—which includes WebEx Meeting Center, WebEx Event Center, WebEx Sales Center, WebEx Training Center […]

Business service management provider Netuitive on Sept. 10 will take its brand of end-to-end performance management to large enterprises when it launches the latest release of its Netuitive SI tool. In the latest release, Netuitive addresses the scalability as well as role-based access requirements of larger IT shops in its Netuitive SI 4, which is […]

Videoconferencing vendor Tandberg on Sept. 6 announced its plans to acquire upstart Codian for $270 million. The Oslo, Norway, company hopes to capture more momentum in the fast-growing high-definition segment of the videoconferencing market with Codian, according to Geir Olsen, executive vice president of strategy and marketing at Tandberg in London. “This is about capturing […]

In preparation for VMworld Sept. 11-13, a host of vendors are jumping into the virtual machine management void to add new tools to help IT get a handle on managing the complexity of the virtual world. Independent run book automation vendor Opalis Sept. 4 announced its new Opalis Process Catalog for Virtualization, aimed in part […]

While most midsize organizations have implemented some kind of help desk technology to speed problem resolution, only a third of help desk managers surveyed earlier this year were completely satisfied with what they had deployed. The survey, whose results will be released Sept. 10 by sponsor SupportSoft, found that while those polled had largely deployed […]

Management appliance vendor Kace will straddle the physical and virtual worlds beginning in mid-September, when it will add the ability for its devices to administer both physical and virtual computers from a common user interface. The Mountain View, Calif., company, which serves primarily midsize enterprises with its Kbox desktop and server administration appliances, has created […]

True to its name, Expand Networks on August 27 expanded its line of WAN optimization controllers with four new hardware models aimed at small branch offices and regional offices. One week after the release of the latest version of Expands Compass 6.1 software, which featured enhancements to its Wide Area File Services function and TCP […]

Startup Pano Logic on August 27 added a new wrinkle to desktop virtualization when it launched a new technology that exploits server virtualization to run multiple instances of Windows on servers. Pano Logic, with its small desktop device and server-based software, bridges the gap between thin client technology and application virtualization for desktop software, making […]

So youve done your planning and predeployment testing, and now youve rolled out your new VOIP system into production. Now, how are you going to manage it? While market forces push up adoption rates and enterprises scale their voice-over-IP deployments, more and more IT managers will be faced with that question. The answer may very […]

IBMs announced acquisition of WebDialogs, a relatively small company in an increasingly important niche, shone a light on the nascent but evolving market for Web conferencing services. IBMs August 22 buyout of the privately held company, for an undisclosed amount, is the latest in a string of acquisitions or other moves in the space by […]