Denise Dubie

Entuity this month announced it had upgraded its flagship management software with features that will help corporate customers collect data on port usage, Cisco IP telephony applications and blade servers from IBM.

Computer Associates recently unveiled a suite of applications designed to address the anti- virus, data backup and PC migration needs of small and remote offices.

IBM Tivoli Monday announced products and upgrades to help IT managers better integrate business processes and IT operations, and to enable IT service management across enterprise networks. Big Blue says the new software and services will help IT managers automatically integrate disparate systems and data stores to establish standard best practices across IT workflows as well as business processes.

Lancope last month announced an updated version of its flagship product suite that the company says can now more deeply inspect application and Cisco router traffic for potential worms, viruses and malicious behavior on internal networks.

Computer Associates President and CEO Gary Swainson outlined a corporate reorganization designed in part to better focus the company on new opportunities in management software earlier this month. Two days later, the company started making good on that plan by announcing the US$330 million buyout of Concord Communications.

Micromuse Inc. plans to unveil this month software bundles designed to help companies more quickly relate network faults to application performance and ensure that...

Cisco Systems Inc. and IBM Corp. last week said they would tie together products that give customers better network access control and help prevent worm and virus attacks.

James Wiedel didn't purchase a product specifically to manage the wireless LAN infrastructure at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Rather, the director of networking at the university's information services unit relies on the Aprisma Spectrum software already in place to monitor a wired infrastructure of 1,000 switches, 50 routers and 44,000 endpoints.