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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.
ManageEngine announced the release of Applications Manager 10.4 with standardized user experience scores for web applications.
A new IBM study of more than 1,700 Chief Executive Officers from 64 countries and 18 industries worldwide found that a majority (71 percent) of global CEOs regard technology as the number one factor to impact an organization’s future over the next three years – considered to be a bigger change agent than shifting economic and market conditions.
VKernel has released vOPS Server 5.0, with new automation features that boost both efficiency and improve performance of virtualized infrastructures.
A new survey of IT professionals by Neustar shows that more than half of respondents fear a negative impact to customer experience from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
Axios Systems announced the availability of assyst10, an enterprise ITSM solution that enables better, faster and cheaper delivery and support of IT services.
SmartBear Software introduced API Complete, a solution that enables software developers, testers and IT operations staff to test and monitor the quality of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and Web Services in an integrated and streamlined fashion.
Precise Software Solutions announced the appointment of John R. Vitalie as Chief Executive Officer. Vitalie assumes the position of CEO effective immediately and will also serve as a member of Precise's Board of Directors.
Elliott has acquired 5% of BMC's common stock proposed that the board form a special committee to pursue a sale of BMC - but BM
More IT Resources (MORE) introduced a new real-time database monitoring solution – MoreDB Lite – the first MORE solution to be made available to users at no cost.
ManageEngine has joined the Cisco Developer Network as a Registered Developer within the Cisco Application Velocity and Network Software and Systems technology categories. In addition, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer has successfully completed interoperability testing with Cisco NetFlow, Cisco IPSLA, Cisco WAAS and Cisco Medianet 2.0.
Xangati announced a new release of its Xangati Management Dashboard (XMD) virtualization and cloud suite.
Compuware Corporation announced a major new release of its integrated application performance management (APM) solution, the Compuware APM platform.
CA Technologies (announced a new version of CA Process Automation that helps customers increase agility for competitive advantage while lowering costs by accelerating business service delivery and transforming IT for improved service performance.
VMware announced VMware vFabric Suite 5.1 - with new capabilities that automate the deployment and management of complex applications on VMware cloud infrastructure and the introduction of an in-memory distributed SQL database.
BlueStripe Software has released FactFinder v6 which incorporates operations-friendly Java monitoring and problem analysis.
