Industry News

November 19, 2012

Cisco announced its intent to acquire privately held Meraki Inc., a provider of cloud networking.

November 19, 2012

Worldwide platform as a service (PaaS) revenue is on pace to reach $1.2 billion in 2012, up from $900 million in 2011, according to Gartner, Inc.

November 16, 2012

Virtual Instruments announced that its VirtualWisdom platform has been certified on VCETM VblockTM Systems as “VCE Vblock Ready.”

November 16, 2012

Despite the increasing sophistication and severity of cyber attacks, a survey of more than 700 senior IT professionals reveals that organizations are surprisingly unarmed to deal with today’s threat landscape.

November 16, 2012

Goliath Technologies has enhanced their performance monitoring, analysis and reporting product to include out-of-the-box integration into the XenApp Server, SQL Server, Web Interface, Windows Infrastructure and Virtual Servers/Machines.

November 15, 2012

SolarWinds released the results of the second in a series of surveys aimed at revealing the heart of Systems Administrators, this time focused on the UK.

November 15, 2012

Cisco announced the acquisition of Cloupia.

November 15, 2012

Oracle has made a strategic minority investment in Engine Yard, a cloud development platform that supports Ruby, PHP and Node.js, popular web development languages.

November 15, 2012

Heroix launched a new dashboard for Heroix Longitude, adding even more ease-of use for both IT and non-technical staff.

November 15, 2012

OpTier announced availability of OpTier APM for PeopleSoft environments.

November 14, 2012

Zenos announced the availability of Zenoss Service Dynamics 4.2.

November 14, 2012

Large organizations have estimated the cost of network downtime ranges from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars per hour, according to Endace's 2012 Network Visibility Survey.

November 14, 2012

INETCO Systems announced the release of INETCO Insight 5.2.

November 13, 2012

SolarWinds announced enhancements to its web application monitoring product SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM), formerly known as Synthetic End User Monitor (SeUM), just in time as systems administrators prepare for increased holiday online shopping demand.

November 13, 2012

The OASIS international consortium has launched the Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP) Technical Committee, a project to define the interoperability standard for managing applications in Platform as a Service (PaaS) environments.

November 13, 2012

ITRS Group and Datacom Systems announced a partnership to launch TradeView, a real-time monitoring solution of market data feeds.

November 12, 2012

More than half (60 percent) of respondents in the North American ‘Business Benefits of Service Virtualization’ study conducted by CA Technologies claim that customer-facing applications are delayed as a result of endemic constraints within the software development and testing environment including limited access to infrastructure, databases and undeveloped applications.

November 12, 2012

US public IT cloud services revenue will experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.5% during 2011-2016, from $18.5 billion in 2011 to $43.2 billion in 2016, according to a new report by International Data Corporation (IDC): US Public IT Cloud Service by Industry Sector.

November 09, 2012

The consumerization trend has hit IT as an unstoppable force, as 821 million smart devices (smartphones and tablets) will be purchased worldwide in 2012 and pass the billion mark in 2013, according to Gartner, Inc. Smart devices will account for 70 percent of total devices sold in 2012.

November 09, 2012

HP announced HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) 11.5 and HP UFT Mobile, next-generation functional and mobile testing software that helps enterprises quickly respond to changing enterprise demands.

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