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Cisco Systems may end up being thought of as a software company, five years from now, rather than a networking box supplier, if its network-is-the-platform strategy is successful. Cisco is working to create what could be described as a network version of a hypervisor, designed to allow customers to more easily plug in the services […]

Hewlett-Packard at its HP Software Universe conference in Vienna on Dec. 12 will lay out for users the software rationalization and rebranding effort it is undertaking as a result of its acquisition of Mercury Interactive. HP will seek to assert its presence as what is now the sixth-largest software company in the world by organizing […]

Video networking was a major theme on the first day of the Cisco Systems C-Scape Conference, as company executives outlined their strategy and vision for the future of networking. Cisco has designs to be a significant player in the video on demand as well as IP TV transmission markets, and it intends to revive the […]

Siemens Enterprise Communications on Dec. 11 will introduce a new line of IP phones for its IP PBXes that bring out a number of advances in user interface design. Siemens with the new OpenStage IP phones, which initially support the Session Initiation Protocol, claimed a number of firsts including the first desktop phone that can […]

Cisco Systems and Citrix Systems on Dec. 11 will team up to deliver much simpler and more broadly applicable click-to-call capability for users working with the Citrix Voice Office Application Suite and Ciscos Unified Call Manager and Unified IP phones. Together the two vendors allow users to click to call telephone numbers embedded in any […]

Application performance monitoring provider Heroix on Dec. 11 will continue to beef up its Longitude agentless IT infrastructure monitoring tool with new enhancements aimed at speeding problem resolution and broadening element coverage. Longitude V4—which provides event management, alerting, automated resolution and monitoring for applications, servers and network devices—extends monitoring to SNMP devices, adds new reporting […]

The Distributed Management Task Force on Dec. 4 completed its work on developing a framework for managing heterogeneous servers in a data center. The full suite of specifications for the Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware, released on Dec. 4, is intended to help enterprises lower operational costs by providing an intuitive and uniform way […]

Cisco Systems, fresh from selling its 2 millionth Integrated Services Router, is launching a host of additional services and features in the branch office router. Officials for Cisco, which rolled out the ISRs more than two years ago with integrated support for voice over IP, security and other services, said Dec. 4 that the company […]

Video conferencing vendor Codian on Dec. 4 sought to raise the bar on the quality of conferences for mixed standard and high definition conferences. Recognizing that participants are often on different types of equipment and use different network connection speeds, the London-based company developed a new Multipoint Control Unit conference bridge that can accommodate those […]

Juniper Networks on Dec. 4 launched a new operating software release for its SSL VPN appliances that further broadens the range of end user devices that it supports. Junipers new IVE (Instant Virtual Extranet) version 5.4 release extends SSL security to Windows Mobile 5.0 and other PDA clients as well as Intel-based Macintosh and Red […]