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Network performance-management vendor Fluke Networks this week expanded its product portfolio when it acquired for an undisclosed sum the intellectual property of VoIP management player Viola Networks.

It took no more than a few cases of miniature, toy flying pigs being handed out at Microsoft's annual management conference in April to dramatize how significantly the company's strategy for building a management platform has changed in the past five years.

A provider of digital marketing optimisation solutions, Coremetrics, today announced a migration program for Australian and New Zealand companies currently using Visual Sciences HBX Analytics.

Systems management software maker FiveRuns announced Monday that it had garnered US$6.2 million in funding from Austin Ventures.

Service-oriented architecture promises many positives: resource reuse, application integration, business agility and infrastructure flexibility, among others. But never do SOA proponents claim ease of management as one of the technology's glories.

NetIQ has introduced software the company says will help enterprise IT managers automate processes around network and security operations and distributed application performance management.

Everybody wants a bargain. But when it comes to the complex world of IT products, finding a deal or even knowing what something should cost can be tricky. Sixty-two percent of IT buyers say the pricing structures used by enterprise network vendors are "usually confusing" or "very confusing," a new Network World poll finds.

Nortel's Government Solutions arm has won a US$300 million, 10-year contract to outfit the U.S. Social Security Administration with an IP-telephony system.

Directory management vendor NetPro Monday beefed up its tool for handling Microsoft's Identity Lifecycle Manager with analytical reporting capabilities, auditing features and synchronization monitoring.

ScriptLogic announced Monday a product designed to help IT administrators better secure and track user access to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007.

Open source technologies already permeate most data centres, and their influence is spreading. However, data centre managers who wouldn't think twice about dropping a new Linux server into a rack feel very differently about building an open source firewall as the main barrier between their own network and the great unwashed. Security remains outside the open-source comfort zone.