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VOIP Web services company BlueNote Networks on Dec. 10 will extend its ability to embed voice into online business applications or services when it launches a pair of new application program interfaces for its SessionSuite communications platform. The new APIs (application program interfaces) for BlueNote’s SessionSuite SOA Edition, which allows developers to embed voice within […]

Business service management startup FireScope will launch a new online marketplace on Dec. 10 that pulls together products and resources aimed at helping IT departments improve efficiency in operations management. To date, the new FireScope Marketplace offers more than 200 different products in its catalog from six different vendors that can help increase IT effectiveness, […]

Nortel Networks continued to build product momentum behind its VOIP alliance with Microsoft when it announced on Dec. 5 the general availability of its promised Multimedia Conferencing 5.0 software. The new MC 5.0 software, the latest deliverable in the Microsoft/Nortel Innovative Communications Alliance, spins out the multimedia conferencing capabilities in Nortel’s Multimedia Communications Server 5100 […]

Traffic management and application acceleration provider Packeteer on Dec. 3 will outline its vision for how to reach the nirvana of network traffic management and launch three new products that move it toward that state. Packeteer, which pioneered quality-of-service monitoring and control of applications traffic across corporate WANs, sees that market merging with the fast […]

IBM on Nov. 28 will give telcos and communication service provider customers a sneak peek into new software designed to give greater visibility into real customer experience. The IBM Tivoli Netcool Customer Experience Management software, which works across both wireless and wireline networks, gives carriers insight into the impact of network problems on services and […]

Run book automation pioneer Opalis is rolling out a new version of its flagship software, adding to the momentum behind the push for process automation technology. The Opalis Integration Server Version 5.4, launched Nov. 27, a day after rival Optinuity released its own software update, adds process automation support for SOA (service-oriented architecture)-enabled applications, a […]

HP Flexes Its IT Management Muscles”> With the Opsware acquisition under its belt, Hewlett-Packard at its HP Software Universe user conference Nov. 26 will try to assert its dominance as a major IT management software provider. At the event in Barcelona, Spain, HP will launch its new strategy for IT operations, which pulls the HP […]

Optinuity, an independent Run Book Automation provider, on Nov. 26 put a different spin on IT process automation with a technology that brings a new level of self-management to mission-critical business applications. The 3-year-old company has added a new APM (Autonomic Policy Management) capability to its Oasis software, which combines RBA, job scheduling, policy management […]

Australian WAN optimization provider Exinda Networks on Nov. 20 hopes to gain a foothold in the North American market with a unique ability in its appliances to classify recreational traffic such as Skype and BitTorrent on enterprise networks. The new Layer 7 Heuristics Engine in its WAN optimization appliances can classify hard-to-identify recreational traffic such […]

Indicative Software on Nov. 13 continued playing David to the Goliaths of the enterprise IT management arena when it launched the latest release of its performance monitoring and management software. As it continues to win against the big four enterprise management players—IBM, BMC Software, Hewlett-Packard and CA—the Fort Collins, Colo., company added a little something […]