Paula Musich

LAS VEGAS—Cisco Systems made its strongest bid yet to market integrated voice, data and wireless technologies to small businesses—outside the hosted services arena—with the launch of its new Smart Business Communications System. But its an open question whether small businesses with less than 100 users are ready for VOIP (voice over IP), LAN switching, routing, […]

LAS VEGAS—Cisco Systems, with the help of channel partners, on April 3 sought to extend its voice over IP reach to the smallest businesses with a new integrated IP telephony and networking offering. At its Cisco Partner Summit, the San Jose, Calif., company launched the new Cisco Smart Business Communication System. To help its partners […]

LAS VEGAS—IPcelerate will bolster Cisco Systems new UC 500 small-business IP telephony system when it launches four VOIP application packages aimed at specific small vertical businesses. The new IPsmartSuite packages are designed to streamline business processes for small retail shops, physician offices, law firms and small manufacturing offices with between five and 50 users. The […]

As enterprises prepare to roll out Microsofts Vista on corporate desktops, ScriptLogic plans to be there to help reduce the cost and pain associated with migrating to the new operating system with a new release of its Desktop Authority management suite. The Boca Raton, Fla., company, which boasts 4.7 million Windows desktops under the management […]

Nortel Networks and Microsoft will further extend their Innovative Communications Alliance partnership into the carrier world on March 28 when the two introduce an integration of Nortels carrier voice over IP softswitch with Microsofts hosted applications platform. The two vendors combined Nortels Communication Server 2000, or CS 2000, softswitch with the hosted versions of Microsoft […]

San Diego, Calif.—Microsoft continued to move the ball forward on its Dynamic Systems Initiative at its Microsoft Management Summit on March 28 when company officials announced the beta release schedule for a handful of products that flesh out its growing Systems Center family. Among those new Systems Center products is the Systems Management Server 2003 […]

SAN DIEGO—NetIQ will emerge from under the wing of parent company Attachmate on March 27 to deliver the next major release of its flagship App Manager systems management tool. NetIQ chose the Microsoft Management Summit after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus as the venue for its App Manager 7 launch, vying for attention with Microsoft as it […]

SAN DIEGO—Microsoft demonstrated at the Microsoft Management Summit 2007 that it now has heterogeneous management religion when it announced key management partnerships with Cisco Systems and EMC/Smarts. Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsofts server and tools business, announced in his keynote speech on March 27 that the software giant is working with Cisco Systems […]

Keynote Systems has helped large wireless carriers, content providers and handset makers cut through the hype to understand how their services and equipment are performing from the customers perspective. On March 27 at the CTIA conference in Orlando, Fla., it will extend that knowledge to the rest of us. Keynote, the authority on Web performance […]

IBM and 3Com on March 26 will launch new collaboration features and further application integration for their joint System i IP Telephony Express Edition offering. The two vendors are integrating IP telephony with e-mail, messaging and core business process applications in a new offering based on IBMs System i server platform. The System i Integrated […]