Industry News
Zenoss has joined the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).
Quest Software has introduced Quest Workspace Desktop Virtualization 7.6 to enable corporations to ready their virtual desktop environments for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 today and have added other key technology advancements to their User Workspace Management portfolio.
New Relic announced a new partnership with VM Farms Inc., the Operations-as-a-Service fully managed hosting company offering application management and scaling services.
BlazeMeter, a provider of the load testing JMeter cloud, announced that services now include high-volume testing of interactive Facebook applications.
Site24x7, a website and web application monitoring service from Zoho Corp., announced the immediate availability of the Site24x7 app for Android.
Evolven has released Evolven 4.0, the latest release of the Evolven change and configuration management solution.
OPNET Technologies announced that it has completed the acquisition of Clarus Systems, a privately held software company headquartered in Redwood City, California. The acquisition expands OPNET’s product portfolio for application and network performance management.
SolarWinds released version 3.0 of IP Address Manager (IPAM). SolarWinds IPAM gives IT professionals’ detailed visibility and management of their IP infrastructures, helping them better manage their networks and minimize downtime.
Quest Software extends support for Android, iPad, iPhone devices and Macs with new and updated Quest Management Xtensions (QMX) solutions, which extend Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager capabilities to over 120 non-Microsoft platforms.
HP announced that George Kadifa has been appointed executive vice president of the company’s Software business, a role he takes over from Bill Veghte. Veghte has been named HP’s chief operating officer (COO), and will continue to oversee the HP strategy. Both announcements are effective immediately.
AppDynamics released AppDynamics Lite for .NET, a production-ready performance monitoring tool for the .NET framework.
IBM has completed the acquisition of Vivisimo, a provider of federated discovery and navigation software that helps organizations access and analyze big data.
OpTier announced the appointment of Mark Thompson to chief executive officer of OpTier, responsible for overall leadership and management of the company.
VirtualWisdom from Virtual Instruments has achieved VMware Ready status.
SOASTA and New Relic announced their partnership and the integration of New Relic's application performance management solution on SOASTA's CloudTest platform.
Elliott Management, a $20 billion private investment firm and major stockholder in BMC Software, sent BMC's Board a letter on May 21. The letter was a response to BMC's rejection of Elliott's proposal to pursue a sale of BMC.
AppNeta has signed a global distribution partnership with Anritsu, a provider of communications test and measurement solutions. Together, AppNeta and Anritsu will deliver cloud-based network performance monitoring solutions to global carriers, cloud services providers and IT services firms for remote locations and end users worldwide.
A new study conducted by Ipanema Technologies and Easynet found that corporate networks across Europe are experiencing significant performance problems due to blind spots around applications.
Fluke Networks released version 8 of its OptiView XG portable network analysis tablet, focused on providing increased visibility into both traditional and virtualized data centers in order to rapidly identify issues and their root cause.
VMware has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wanova, a provider of intelligent desktop solutions that centralize and simplify the management of physical desktop images while enabling users to take advantage of the native performance of a PC.
