Less than two weeks after being acquired by Compuware, dynaTrace Software is refreshing its application performance management (APM) platform with a new release offering improved breadth, depth and ease-of-use. The first new release in two years, dynaTrace 4 is powered by the next generation of the company’s transaction tracing capability, PurePath Technology, as well as the first stage of integration with Gomez, the Web application experience management solution Compuware acquired in late 2009.
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dynaTrace Improves APM Breadth, Depth And Ease-Of-Use
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Amid Mixed Results, Riverbed Buys Zeus, Aptimize
Riverbed announced the acquisitions of Zeus Technology – high performance application delivery control for virtual and cloud environments – and Aptimize – web content optimization. According to Riverbed, these companies enable asymmetric optimization of applications and web content, are ‘highly complementary’ and will allow Riverbed to be a more strategic vendor to customers.
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Dell Acquires Force 10; Solidifies Data Center Story
Rumors about which networking company Dell was going to acquire have been silenced today with the announcement of their intent to acquire Force 10. What Dell gets from Force10 is an equipment vendor that specializes in high performance computing and has a clearly defined strategy to support cloud computing, orchestration, and automation.
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Logitech Offers Cloud Videoconferencing, Makes Acquisition
Logitech, a company that began by making computer peripherals like mice, keyboards and webcams, has expanded its LifeSize enterprise videoconferencing business with a cloud-based offering, a new video endpoint for room-sized videoconference systems and the acquisition of a videoconference software company.
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Dell Kace Applies Itself To The SMB Market
Dell’s Kace business unit is looking to broaden its addressable market with a line of systems management appliances that have been designed to meet the needs of small and midsize businesses. The M300 Asset Management Appliance is targeted at SMBs with 50 to 200 employees looking for simple, reliable and affordable solutions for such routine IT tasks as hardware and software inventory, software license compliance, and asset tracking and management.
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Nasuni Offers ‘First’ Storage SLA
Nasuni is taking the wraps off a new storage service, under development for the last two years, that features a 100% uptime service level agreement. In addition to what is being called the first storage SLA, the new offering, called Data Protection, can recover data in minutes with the click of a button, says the company.
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Mendix Upgrades Agile Business Platform For Software Development
Mendix, which delivers a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering for software development, launched version 3.0 of its Agile Business Platform. Among the new features in the upgrade are a centralized management dashboard that lets members of the development team see how the project is going, an app store where templates for software projects can be downloaded and Mendix’s recently announced Sprintr social collaboration platform for projects.
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NetIQ Boosts PlateSpin Products To Ease Data Migration
NetIQ has enhanced three of their PlateSpin virtualization and workload management products to make data migration quicker and easier, especially over connections that are busy or expensive. The three products – PlateSpin Forge, PlateSpin Protect, and PlateSpin Migrate – include the ability for users to configure bandwidth throttling and compression, which results in shorter backup windows and faster migrations, which are particularly useful over overloaded LAN or high-priced WAN connections.
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Adobe Buys EchoSign–Makes Digital Signatures Mainstream
Adobe announced that it has acquired EchoSign–a provider of electronic signature and signature automation tools. Adobe is almost a decade late getting into this game, but the strength and recognition of the Adobe brand may help drive more mainstream adoption of the technology.
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F5 Launches ARX File Virtualization Devices Targeted At SMBs
F5 Networks has added two models to its line of ARX file virtualization hardware devices, the ARX1500 and the ARX2500, which are intended for small to midsize businesses. The devices act as a front end to an organization’s data storage, which makes it easier for users to move files around. The ARX1500 is targeted as a starting device for smaller organizations, while the ARX2500 is intended for midsize organizations and is the second member of the family to support 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
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