Stories by Denise Dubie

BMC updates Mainview

BMC Software on Monday announced it has upgraded its mainframe management software to give bandwidth and capacity priority to mission-critical IP applications in those environments.

HP's buying spree continues

Hewlett-Packard (HP) Wednesday announced its intentions to acquire two software makers, bringing its acquisition tally to five companies in six months and adding more management capabilities to its software arsenal that the company says will enable utility computing.

NAI delivers appliances, 10 Gigabit analyzer

Network Associates plans to unveil products to help enterprise network managers more quickly pinpoint performance issues and guarantee their next-generation networks run smoothly.

The power of process

When Toronto came under the threat of the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus last spring, Joanne Pearson had to shut down operations at the West Park Healthcare Assessment Centre offices for six weeks. Yet she and her IT staff couldn't stop processing medical insurance referrals and claims.

Symantec CEO warns of new threats

John Thompson, Symantec chairman and CEO, delivered a call to arms to Comdex attendees in Las Vegas Wednesday, when he detailed how the more business is done on the Internet, the more everyone needs to do their part to secure the wired, and wireless, world.

BMC upgrades products, adds partnerships

BMC Software this week announced it has made third-party partnerships and has upgraded its software in an effort to help customers more effectively manage business applications.

IBM to speed Web infrastructure rollouts

IBM Wednesday announced it would make the second offering from its Project Symphony product family generally available by the end of October. The latest bundled product will help IBM customers more quickly deploy Web infrastructure on their nets, Big Blue says.

Mining a diamond in the rough

Despite a raft of available candidates, IT executives still are finding it tough to find the one person with the right combination of skills and talent.

Interview: Pershing gets arms around online app

Pershing has been around since the 1930s and runs one of the biggest financial clearing businesses in the U.S., but the company is little known to many people because it does so much of its work behind the scenes. Sold by Credit Suisse Group to Bank of New York for US$2.1 billion earlier this year, Pershing relies heavily on its network to conduct much of its business, which involves supplying about 250 applications and services to more than 1,300 customers. Ramaswamy Nagappan, Pershing's managing director of e-services, spoke recently about the challenges of running such a huge online applications system.

CA launches network performance mgmt. software

Computer Associates International last week rolled out software designed to watch traffic and map the physical relationships between applications and the underlying infrastructure that supports them, which the company says will speed problem resolution and improve performance.

IBM exec helps bring projects to reality

Since the inception of its first lab in 1945, IBM Research has grown to fill eight worldwide labs, employ about 3,500 researchers - including five Nobel prize winners - and help Big Blue become an IT innovator and market power across several technology disciplines. IBM Corp.'s research executives credit the company's vast user community with helping the computer heavyweight determine product road maps. This week IBM will discuss its global technology outlook at SHARE's semi-annual IBM users conference in Washington, D.C., which is expected to draw about 2,000 participants for more than 700 hours of technical education sessions covering a range of IBM technologies. Network World Senior Writer Denise Dubie sat down with Robert Morris, director and vice president of IBM Research, to discuss how his team determines where to find tomorrow's technologies.

CA to watch traffic

Computer Associates International Monday further fleshed out details of a technology, dubbed Sonar, which the company claims can directly correlate application performance to the underlying network infrastructure.

Mgmt. standards: Keeping an open mind

Customer demand for open software is driving countless vendors, such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft, to work more closely with industry organizations to develop common protocols, languages and, industry standards for network and systems management.

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