Paula Musich

Seven months after the close of Hewlett-Packards acquisition of Mercury Interactive, HP will try to prove it is effectively integrating the largest software acquisition in its history with the launch of a wide-ranging set of software releases and services. With new offerings in quality assurance, load testing, IT service management, and change and configuration management, […]

The use of video as a communications tool in the enterprise is moving out of the executive suite and onto users desktops, and videoconferencing provider Polycom is stepping up to help enterprises manage and secure that video content. On June 18, the Pleasanton, Calif., company will launch what officials say is the first enterprise video […]

mValent on June 18 will move its automated application infrastructure configuration management beyond the Java world and into the Microsoft Windows world. The Integrity tool for managing application configuration and change now provides automated management of leading Microsoft Windows-based servers, including Microsofts Internet Information Server, SQL Server, Sharepoint and the Windows operating system itself. From […]

Two unlikely partners are teaming up to help network service providers get a handle on managing their planned next-generation networks with the launch of new integrated tools. IBM and Cisco Systems on June 14 will introduce an extension to their network management partnership that will combine IBM Tivoli network fault monitoring, problem isolation and service-level […]

With its acquisition of WebEx recently completed, Cisco is now considering how to expand the WebEx online applications presence in multiple directions. To date WebEx has developed some 13 meeting-centric online applications aimed at improving collaboration among specific groups within and between organizations. The companys specialized application suites account for 70 percent of its revenues, […]

Nortel and IBM are teaming up to launch an integrated suite of voice over IP and multimedia applications running on IBMs System i server, which is popular with small and midsize enterprises. The integrated offering will turn System i servers into IP PBXes capable of supporting a mix of IP telephony applications and collaboration applications […]

Juniper Networks on June 11 extended the upper reaches of its T-series core router line for service providers when it launched its new T1600 1.6T-bps router. The high-end router is aimed at service providers trying to keep pace with the rapid growth of bandwidth-hungry video services, the movement of enterprises from private WANs to IP […]

Being able to discover the components and map the dependencies of homegrown enterprise applications is the final frontier for IT in its Business Services Management activities. Independent BSM provider Managed Objects believes it has conquered that frontier. The 10-year-old company introduced on June 11 at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations and Management Summit in Orlando […]

Open-source IT monitoring and management provider Zenoss on June 11 will seek to build momentum behind its alternative to the big four enterprise management offerings when it introduces the second major release of its Zenoss Core tool. Zenoss, which has seen 170,000 downloads of its free Zenoss Core offering since January and claims to have […]

Controlling user access on the network is the cornerstone of any enterprise compliance effort. Finally, it seems that resistance to automating this process is crumbling, with broad-scale adoption of automated user access provisioning within sight. Almost two-thirds (65 percent) of companies surveyed by boutique access provisioning vendor Courion have either started implementing role-based access management […]