In yet another sign that growing revenues are reshaping the vendor outlook in the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/network-management.html">network management</a> sector, Gartner recently named vendor Silver Peak one of the leaders in its <a href="http://www.silver-peak.com/landing/Gartner-Magic-Quadrant">magic quadrant</a> for the WAN optimization market.
When investment firm Edison Ventures decided to contribute the majority of a recent <a href="http://www.loadbalancerblog.com/blog/2012/01/kemp-gets-funding-%E2%80%93-16m">$16 million round of funding</a> for application delivery controller provider Kemp Technologies, investment manager Lenard Marcus acknowledged that some initial risk was incurred.
In a move to broaden its offerings for the growing network intelligence and diagnostics market, telecom equipment manufacturer Net Optics recently announced the acquisition of network analytics software provider nMetric.
Having just released its new cloud operating system, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/012012-piston-cloud-255154.html">Piston Cloud Computing</a> finds itself in a contentious position -- and company co-founder Josh McKenty says that is exactly where the company wants to be.
Piston Cloud Computing co-founder Josh McKenty has laid out the same objective on several occasions, from speaking to attendees at the inaugural OpenStack design summit to addressing friends and colleagues at his company's launch party.
WAN optimization is shaping up to be one of the hottest areas of the network equipment market, prompting industry experts to predict high-profile acquisitions and vendor shakeups in the near future.
Leading into this year's <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/011112-ibm-lotusphere-254803.html">Lotusphere conference</a>, Constellation Research Group principal analyst and former IBM employee Alan Lepofsky said IBM will have to approach its new venture in social business by emphasizing the most important factor -- the benefits.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> is looking to share its wealth of security information with the world through a new real-time threat intelligence feed, the company recently announced at the International Conference on Cyber Security in New York.
These days, IBM's collaboration software Lotus Notes has become a shadow of its former self, and the Lotusphere conference doesn't have the same pull it once did - so this year, Lotusphere will have to share the spotlight with a brand-new conference called IBM Connect.
Now in its 19th year, Lotusphere will once again attempt to make up the ground Lotus Notes lost as a result of shifts in strategy at IBM and changes in the market in the past few years. But with Lotus Notes facing an uphill battle, five days at "the happiest place on Earth" will have to go a long way.
A perfect storm of growth in enterprise mobility, video consumption and cloud infrastructure will come together just in time for a major refresh cycle in 2012, driving worldwide enterprise network revenues to $39.4 billion by the end of the year, IDC predicts.
Seven bulletins, one deemed critical, and a handful of new <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> security issues all arrived today as part of Microsoft's first <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-jan">Patch Tuesday of 2012</a>.
