Industry News
Cisco announced its intent to acquire privately held Meraki Inc., a provider of cloud networking.
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.
Virtual Instruments announced that its VirtualWisdom platform has been certified on VCETM VblockTM Systems as “VCE Vblock Ready.”
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.
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.
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.
Cisco announced the acquisition of Cloupia.
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.
Heroix launched a new dashboard for Heroix Longitude, adding even more ease-of use for both IT and non-technical staff.
OpTier announced availability of OpTier APM for PeopleSoft environments.
Zenos announced the availability of Zenoss Service Dynamics 4.2.
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.
INETCO Systems announced the release of INETCO Insight 5.2.
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.
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.
ITRS Group and Datacom Systems announced a partnership to launch TradeView, a real-time monitoring solution of market data feeds.
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.
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.
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.
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.
