Industry News
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.
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.
