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F5 Networks on March 5 will treat its activist customers to new innovations when it launches the next major version of its DevCentral online technical community site. DevCentral, which already counts 14,000 registered users globally, adds new social networking functionality that draws on Web 2.0 technologies to further foster collaboration between members extending F5s product […]

Although nobodys crystal ball is clear on the impact that the change in the daylight-saving time rules will have on enterprise IT systems and applications, the problems could be bigger than most people realize. Thats because IT shops have had less notice in dealing with the time change than they did for Y2K, and because […]

Voice-over-IP application enabler BlueNote Networks on Feb. 26 will extend its SOA-based business communications platform software by adding a thin telephony client. The new SessionSuite WebCaller client, which uses the communications services in BlueNotes SessionSuite, allows developers without deep telephony expertise to embed voice communications within Web-based applications or on Web sites. The new WebCaller, […]

A lot of vendors in the telecom space talk about Fixed Mobile Convergence. Siemens Communications on Feb. 26 will back up that talk with what officials claim is the first Session Initiation Protocol-based product to support dual-mode Wi-Fi/GSM calling functions on a single handset. Siemens new HiPath Mobile Connect offering, implemented as an appliance and […]

WAN optimization provider Blue Coat Systems on Feb. 26 will return to its roots as a content distribution networking company when it applies its caching technology to video. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company is finding increased demand to improve the performance of live streaming video and video-on-demand from its customers and responded by creating a software […]

Cisco Systems Inc. on Feb. 21 signaled its plans to add acceleration for Web 2.0 applications when it announced its intent to acquire high performance XML gateway provider Reactivity Inc. Cisco, which will pay $135 million for the privately held company, will bring Reactivity under its Application Networking Services unit as an extension to Ciscos […]

Its one thing to establish and communicate policies around who, how and when configuration changes can be made to IT infrastructure. Its another thing to get everyone in the IT department to follow them. IT governance automation provider Active Reasoning on Feb. 19 will try to advance the cause of policy enforcement when it introduces […]

Polycom will try to raise the bar for next-generation videoconferencing when it launches its new RMX 2000 conferencing platform on Feb. 20. As part of the effort to move videoconferencing out of the prescheduled, conference-room-based realm, Polycom with the new RMX 2000 addressed several issues that have kept the technology from being used from the […]

IBM and Nortel Networks on Feb. 14 announced they will team up to bring service-oriented architecture technologies into the telecommunications space for carriers and service providers. IBM said it plans to leverage Nortels presence and expertise in carrier networks to drive more of its SOA-based technologies into next-generation telecom networks based on the industry standard […]

Citrix Systems moved past the engagement stage with OEM Aurema and into wedding on Feb. 14 when it announced it has acquired the workload management assets of the privately held company. Citrix, which has licensed portions of Auremas processor workload management technology for use in the Citrix Presentation Server since 2004, would not reveal the […]