Industry News
Riverbed Technology has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo, LLC and Teachers’ Private Capital;
New Relic announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 5,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $23.00 per share.
CA Technologies and BrightResults Inc. announced a distribution agreement naming BrightResults a Premier Partner in the CA Global Partner Program.
Chef, a provider of web-scale IT automation, announced a new partnership with HP to transform IT operations for HP’s enterprise customers.
Heroix introduced its Longitude Hyper-V Solution so that companies can monitor the Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor.
Site24x7 announced the launch of the Site24x7 Real User Monitoring beta feature.
IT Central Station is hosting an APM Solutions User Perspective Roundtable on January 8, 2015.
comScore reported holiday season US retail e-commerce spending from desktop computers for the first 38 days of the November-December 2014 holiday season.
Logentries announced the DataHub for enterprise-level security, compliance and data protection requirements across large and growing organizations.
Paessler AG announced support for push notifications to users of its PRTG Network Monitor iOS and Android applications.
ManageEngine announced that ServiceDesk Plus, the IT help desk software, is now integrated with Zoho Reports, the online reporting and business intelligence application from Zoho.com. Available immediately as an add-on module, the Zoho Reports integration lets ServiceDesk Plus users easily analyze their IT service desk data as well as create insightful reports and visually rich dashboards for informed decision-making.
VMware announced the general availability of new cloud management offerings including a significant update to VMware vRealize Suite 6, a cloud management platform built for the hybrid cloud.
ThousandEyes announced the launch of ThousandEyes Lite, a free version of their Network Performance Management (NPM) product.
Zenoss announced its new channel partner program, the Zenoss Partner Network (ZPN), which expands opportunities for partners and Zenoss around the globe.
SolarWinds introduced new integration between SolarWinds Web Help Desk and DameWare Remote Support, empowering IT Pros to provide fast and direct IT incident support and reduce overall end-user performance disruption wherever end-users are working.
NetScout Systems has been named to Forbes’ annual list of America’s Best Small Companies 2014.
WildPackets announced the WildPackets Omnipliance WiFi AP Verification Program, which verifies that 802.11ac Wireless Access Points (APs) are compatible with Omnipliance WiFi, an appliance for monitoring, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed, multi-gigabit 802.11ac Wi-Fi network traffic.
CA Technologiesannounced a new release of CA Application Performance Management (APM) to further help organizations proactively manage the user experience of their applications so that every experience can become a loyalty-building interaction.
The AppDynamics cloud-based solution for monitoring, managing and extracting real-time intelligence from "in production" software applications is certified and available on the Verizon Cloud Marketplace.
AppDynamics is partnering with First Graduate, a San Francisco-based college success program that helps students finish high school and become the first in their families to graduate from college ready to pursue meaningful careers.
