Surveying security on wireless LANs
Finisar next month will add security features to its software for monitoring IEEE 802.11b wireless LANs, allowing managers to identify and eliminate unauthorized users.
Stories by Denise Dubie
Analysis: Cisco seeks to star in storage nets
Cisco Systems last week signaled its official arrival in the Fibre Channel storage network market with the acquisition of Andiamo Systems - a company it incubated - and the introduction of a line of high-performance storage equipment based on Andiamo's technology.
Aprisma is set free
Equipment maker Enterasys Networks Inc. last week announced that it has sold network management software company Aprisma Management Technologies Inc. to a buyout firm in a move intended to help Enterasys better focus and Aprisma position itself as hardware-agnostic.
Enterasys sells Aprisma unit
Enterasys Networks Inc. this week announced it has sold network management software company Aprisma Management Technologies Inc. to Gores Technology Group Inc.
Fixing app performance woes
With an eye toward helping customers manage distributed, Web-based application performance, Panacya Inc. this week updated its flagship application management software with Web services technology support.
Users, vendors try to manage Web services
Travel industry giant Orbitz Inc. couldn't wait for management software vendors to offer the tools it needed to track how integrated applications performed under pressure. So the online travel company built its own.
Entuity integrates management
Entuity Ltd. this week announced the latest release of its network management software that the company claims can now manage fault, performance and inventory across networks. The product also includes support for frame relay management.
Mercury debuts tuning software
Mercury Interactive Corp. next week will introduce network tuning software that enterprise network managers can use to track down the source of performance problems across their networks.
HP improves Network Node Manager
Hewlett-Packard Co. this week introduced two versions of its flagship network management software. Both offer users better reporting and more ways of slicing and dicing data, while one adds Layer 2 discovery and improved root-cause analysis.
Peregrine to cut jobs, close offices
Peregrine Systems Inc. this week announced it would be cutting 1,400 jobs, or 48 percent of its workforce in the next few weeks in an effort to streamline its business.
Updated CIM manages Unix, WBEM
At its developers' conference, the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) Monday released Version 2.6 of the Common Information Model (CIM), which includes models to administer Unix systems and Web-based Enterprise Management networks.
Tivoli security software supports Linux
Tivoli Systems Inc. at its user show in Europe Monday announced it would be supporting Linux across many of its security software products.
IT budgets for transportation industry slowly recover
After a disastrous 2001 and so far a dismal 2002, things may be looking up for the transportation industry and its IT budgets in 2003, according to findings Gartner Inc. released this week.
NetWorld+Interop - Chambers sees continued productivity gains
After a disastrous 2001 and so far a dismal 2002, things may be looking up for the transportation industry and its IT budgets in 2003, according to findings Gartner Inc. released this week.
NetWorld+Interop - RiverSoft looks to manage MPLS nets
At NetWorld+Interop next week, net management software maker RiverSoft PLC will unveil a package the company claims can help service providers and large enterprises monitor voice and data applications on MPLS networks.