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Radware buys Strangeloop for Web acceleration in $8.4M deal

Posted February 8, 2013 - 5:44 pm

Application delivery vendor Radware has bought Web acceleration provider Strangeloop for $8.4 million and will sell its products under a new name.
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ForeScout integrates its NAC with AirWatch's mobile management

Posted February 5, 2013 - 2:32 pm

ForeScout Technologies and AirWatch have integrated their respective products for network access control and mobile management in a bid to give IT departments better control over devices that employees bring to work.
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Amazon lets users track their cloud-based databases with texts, email

Posted February 5, 2013 - 9:37 am

Users of Amazon Web Services' Relational Database Service (RDS) can now keep track of their databases with new notifications via email and SMS.
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F5 introduces new integrated firewall capability for the data center

Posted January 31, 2013 - 1:14 pm

F5 Networks today rolled out a raft of new and more powerful Application Delivery Networking tools, including its most capable device to date, the Viprion 4800, and an advanced firewall that, when deployed on the 4800, is said to offer industry leading performance.
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Fluke rolls application performance and network monitoring into 1 box

Posted January 29, 2013 - 12:43 pm

Fluke Networks is announcing an appliance called Visual TruView at Cisco Live today that combines network and application performance management into a single rack-mounted unit.
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AppSense combines mobile app and device management with MobileNow

Posted January 29, 2013 - 10:59 am

AppSense has released MobileNow, a cloud-based service that combines device and application administration features, as it hopes to take a bite out of the growing mobile management market.
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VMware takes a $30 million interest in Puppet

Posted January 23, 2013 - 2:47 pm

Virtualization software provider VMware has invested US$30 million in Puppet Labs, which makes a widely used, open-source operations management software package called Puppet.
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IT's 2013 resolutions: Faster app delivery, but less cloud

Posted January 23, 2013 - 8:46 am

Survey also shows greater business alignment a goal, but moreso than usual
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OpenX Ad Server Exploits - How to remove one and protect yourself

Posted January 4, 2013 - 9:00 am

Unfortunately OpenX has taken some poorly thought out and executed measures to attempt to monetize their open source version of the software which has introduced some major security flaws.
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Oracle's Database Appliance certified for SAP software

Posted December 11, 2012 - 12:58 pm

Some of SAP's software products are now certified for use with Oracle's Database Appliance, which is essentially a streamlined version of its Exadata machine aimed at small and medium-size businesses.
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Amazon Web Services continues Windows push with PowerShell addition

Posted December 6, 2012 - 8:38 am

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added PowerShell to the management options for its cloud, in a move that reaches out to the Windows community.
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Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 out now

Posted November 27, 2012 - 12:04 pm

Fresh off the heels of the ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update, Microsoft is back at it with yesterday's release of the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 package. Visual Studio 2012 itself was only launched in September so it turns out they weren't kidding when they began their initiative to release development tool updates much more frequently.
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Dell buys automation software provider Gale Technologies

Posted November 16, 2012 - 12:09 pm

In a move aimed at strengthening its ability to offer converged systems, Dell has acquired infrastructure automation software provider Gale Technologies.
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Facebook boosts Hadoop with scheduling muscle

Posted November 8, 2012 - 6:49 pm

Facebook has beaten some of the limitations of the Apache Hadoop data processing platform, its engineers assert.
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Oracle hit with patent lawsuit over WebLogic Server

Posted November 7, 2012 - 4:24 pm

Oracle is finding itself caught up in another Java-related patent lawsuit, but this time it's the one getting sued.
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HP simplifies automated software testing suite

Posted November 6, 2012 - 3:06 pm

Hewlett-Packard is incorporating three different components, previously available separately, into its HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) automated testing application so developers can test all aspects of a multi-tiered application from a single interface.
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Gartner: EMEA IT spending will grow next year after gloomy 2012

Posted November 5, 2012 - 1:12 pm

IT spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will reach US$1.154 trillion in 2013, a 1.4 percent increase from this year, thanks to the increasing popularity of mobile devices, market research company Gartner said on Monday.
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VMware beefs up its app data management tools

Posted October 30, 2012 - 4:44 pm

Seeking to firm its position in the budding application data management space, VMware today released the latest upgrade to its vFabric GemFire product that enhances administrative controls, provides a new interface and aims to make it easier for applications to handle larger amounts of data faster than previous versions.
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Riverbed to acquire Opnet in $1B deal

Posted October 29, 2012 - 8:21 pm

Riverbed Technology will acquire Opnet Technologies for about US$1 billion, the two companies said Monday.
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Telecom firm tightens internal application management with HP tool

Posted October 28, 2012 - 8:34 pm

Vodafone Ireland was faced with a problem, according to Shane Gaffney, head of IT operations: It had about 200 applications running for internal business units tied to customer services, but was having a hard time measuring application availability.
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HP launches cloud service for the IT help desk

Posted October 22, 2012 - 7:49 am

Hewlett-Packard has launched a hosted offering called HP Service Anywhere, providing IT service management (ITSM) software over the Internet.
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How to rationalize your application portfolio

Posted October 19, 2012 - 1:56 pm

Is your application portfolio bursting at the seams? Chances are that it is, and it's likely that many of the applications in that portfolio are either unused or underutilized, and that could be costing you millions of dollars.
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F5 boosts capacity, transaction capabilities of its application delivery hardware

Posted October 19, 2012 - 11:45 am

F5 Networks this week debuted the 4200v version of its BIG-IP line of application delivery controllers -- specialized hardware designed to help lessen the load imposed on network-based services -- significantly bolstering the transaction handling and capacity over its current high-end box.
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Cisco, Citrix forge ADC alliance

Posted October 17, 2012 - 10:47 am

Cisco will reference sell Citrix's NetScaler application delivery controller as part of an expanded relationship between the two companies to address cloud and mobile opportunities.
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Cisco looking to buy Citrix ADCs?

Posted October 16, 2012 - 4:44 pm

Cisco could buy Citrix's networking business if an expected OEM deal involving the latter's application delivery controller product bears fruit, Oppenheimer analysts said this week.
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