Paula Musich

Cisco Systems at ITU Telecom World in Hong Kong on Dec. 4 will continue its push into the uncharted IP TV waters with a series of new products and enhancements to the Cisco 7600 router series that will enable service providers to deliver the “Video 2.0” experience. In reaction to the rise of VOD (video […]

One year after its latest identity management acquisition, Hewlett-Packard will launch a major upgrade to its identity management suite on Nov. 30. Almost a year to the date after announcing its acquisition of Trustgenix, HP will introduce new integration, automation and deployment features across the four products that make up the suite. New integration works […]

Novell trailed into the market for managing virtual machine and grid computing systems in the data center on Nov. 28 when it launched four new ZENworks offerings. At the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas, Novell introduced its first products designed to manage heterogeneous virtual machine and grid computing environments to help reduce the […]

CA on Nov. 27 will broaden the range of options for managing a heterogeneous mix of virtual servers and server clusters when it launches the next major version of its Unicenter Advanced Systems Management software. With the adoption of server virtualization and clustering ramping up quickly, a lot of IT shops are beginning to struggle […]

Solidcore Systems on Nov. 27 will come out with a unique twist on the change management automation theme for data centers when it introduces the ability to enforce change policies. That capability, delivered through a new module in Solidcores S3 Change Control software, integrates with BMC Remedy Action Request System to block any changes not […]

Qlusters married power management with open-source data center management on Nov. 20 when it added new power management plug-ins to its openQRM provisioning and data center management tool. The new plug-ins specifically deliver automated power management for Dell DRAC, HP ILO and Intel IPMI enabled servers. They allow users to automatically turn the power off […]

F5 Networks is marrying the scalability of its high-performance Big-IP traffic management appliance with the anti-spam protection of Secure Computings TrustedSource database to help enterprises better handle the rising tide of unwanted spam. With spam growing exponentially, enterprises are finding that their anti-spam infrastructure cant scale to match it in a cost-effective manner. F5 Networks, […]

Video networking vendor VBrick Systems on Nov. 17 will help enterprises deliver live and video on demand to even small, remote offices with a new appliance that can overcome low-bandwidth WAN restrictions. The new VBrick WM Appliance, which supports the widely used Windows Media format, provides a reflecting capability that allows a single video stream […]

Avaya reasserted its leadership in the fragmented Unified Communications space on Nov. 16 when it launched a revamped product lineup and announced its acquisition of mobility applications provider Traverse Networks. Avayas new Unified Communications Division, formed in September in an effort to more coherently address the entire market, will bring Traverse Networks under its wing […]

Network management software vendor AlterPoint on Nov. 14 will release portions of its code, contributing to the development of open-source network management. AlterPoint will launch its ZipTie open-source project at the Gartner Enterprise Networking Summit, in Las Vegas, with the aim of creating a community to maintain and extend multivendor network element management software. Specifically, […]