Denise Dubie

HP this week is set to share details on its plans for integrating Peregrine Systems' technology into its OpenView management software portfolio and to unveil its strategy for delivering a configuration management database that the company says will help customers collect data from myriad sources.

IBM last month shared its plans to put down US$865 million for network management software maker Micromuse, which industry watchers say is nothing but good news for Big Blue as the network becomes a more critical focus for the big management software vendors.

Computer Associates recently made public its acquisition of an e-mail archiving software vendor whose technology CA says will help round out BrightStor, its suite to manage storage. The company did not disclose how much it spent on iLumin Software Services, which was founded in 1996.

IBM Tivoli executives last month said the company would deliver software by year-end to keep tabs on service-oriented architecture (SOA) enabled applications.

HP next week is set to announce new and upgraded products that it says will help companies more easily roll out and manage virtualized servers. The company also will introduce capabilities that will let customers deploy virtualization on their HP Integrity servers.

IBM last month announced software that the company said could help customers create an on-demand computing environment across their WebSphere application servers.

Network and systems management vendors have been on a shopping spree of sorts for some time now, and the current must-have item on their list is security information management.

Hewlett-Packard this week upgraded three applications in its identity and access management suite with capabilities that the company says will help users set specific privacy guidelines and better integrate multiple identities across disparate systems.