Paula Musich

A small startup hopes to turn how routing is done in the Internet on its head, thanks to breakthroughs the company achieved in the new flow-based router it launched Aug. 6. Anagran, founded by one of the four pioneers credited with creating the Internet, introduced on the Aug. 6 its Anagran FR-1000 Flow Router, which […]

BMC Software continued to build on its momentum in its first fiscal quarter of 2008 by posting 7 percent revenues gains to $385 million and net income of $57 million. The Houston-based software company, building on its competitive lead in the business service management space, racked up earnings per share of 28 cents, compared to […]

Enterprise management provider CA on August 6 moved to align its service level management suite more closely with the recently released IT Infrastructure Library Version 3. The company, which is based in Islandia, N.Y., released new versions of its Unicenter Service Catalog and Unicenter Service Accounting programs that incorporate new ITIL Version 3 recommendations on […]

F5 Networks on Aug. 6 announced its intent to acquire Acopia Networks for $210 million in cash, thus snatching up the last independent file virtualization vendor left standing. Privately held Acopia will help to propel F5 Networks further into the data center with its product portfolio technology, which allows customers to virtualize heterogeneous file-storage subsystems. […]

With a handful of customers still offline on the afternoon of Aug. 3 after service outages caused by a data center migration snafu, executives at Hostway are not yet ready for a Monday morning quarterbacking session. But industry pundits had plenty of opinions on how to avoid the type of lengthy outages some of Hostways […]

Cisco Systems, after planting its strategy flag in the fertile data center soil earlier this week, wasted no time in advancing that strategy by announcing on July 27 that it has taken a $150 million stake in VMware. With its new 1.6 percent ownership of VMware, Cisco hopes to gain new ground in the data […]

ANAHEIM, Calif.—Cisco Systems Cisco Networkers user conference, normally a place for network engineers and technicians to learn new tricks and techniques to keep networks humming, this year began to move up the food chain. At at the July 22-26 conference here, Cisco added new sessions, user case studies and high-level briefings to draw more IT […]

Riverbed Technology is tossing its WAN optimization hat into the client ring with its first software-based offering for road warriors and other remote workers. The new Riverbed Steelhead Mobile client, announced July 26, delivers a performance boost for centralized applications accessed from individual laptops or desktops over a WAN connection. It is intended to help […]

ANAHEIM, Calif.—Cisco Systems at its Cisco Networkers user conference here acted on its new data center strategy with a new provisioning appliance and a set of enhancements to existing products. Cisco, making a big bet based on the need to more swiftly provision all the elements required to deliver new services or business applications, is […]

Despite slow adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet beyond niche applications, Intel on July 23 launched the second generation of its Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet controllers for network interface cards. The two new Ethernet controllers are designed specifically for multicore servers and servers that implement virtual machine technology. They are intended to exploit the […]