Last month, at Interop 2010 in New York, Rich Tehrani, CEO of TMC, had the opportunity to speak to Steve Urquhart, director at nMetrics about the company's latest network management solutions.

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. announced the introduction of a true Ethernet fabric switching solution that is suitably built for highly virtualized and cloud-optimized data centers.

In the landscape of network management, there are interesting dynamics taking place. For a number of IT managers, they are finding that network management is more easily conducted that storage management. It would seem that storage management and monitoring would be very similar to network management and monitoring; yet it seems the two are very different, one much more challenging than the other.

Network management is important for the sole reason of proper performance monitoring.

Korenix, a Beijer Electronics Group Company and manufacturer of industrial networking and computing products, announced the release of JetBox 9562 series Linux-based layer3 Virtual Private Network (VPN) platforms as an extension of its series of Embedded Vehicle PoE Router computers.

Managed, hosted VoIP provider, M5 Networks has announced the acquisition of Geckotech, a Chicago-based provider of Cisco-powered Hosted VoIP. The two companies are joining forces to better respond to the exploding opportunities for business-grade hosted communications.

Globecomm Systems, Inc., a global provider of satellite-based managed network solutions, has received a contract from a major media & entertainment company valued at $3.8 million.

Marina Gil-Santamaria, the director of network management product marketing at Ipswitch, recently shared her thoughts on the best practices that can be used for network configuration and change management.

Digitel Mobile Philippines, which operates under the brand name of Sun Cellular and is one of the fastest growing mobile telecommunications providers in Philippines, has selected Ceragon Networks, the provider of high-capacity, 4G/LTE-Ready wireless backhaul solutions, for 2G/3G backhaul expansion.

megasoft GmbH, a value added reseller based in Solingen, Germany has joined the Entuity Channel Partner Network (ECPnet).

NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd (NGKNTK), a Tier 1 automotive supplier based in Japan, has adopted and installed Apriso's FlexNet as their enterprise manufacturing and logistics execution system.

Proper network management can be a challenge even for the most seasoned IT professional. To help in the process, Ipswitch Inc. has announced the addition of WhatsConnected to its WhatsUp Gold suite of IT management solutions. This Layer 2 and Layer 3 discovery tool for SMBs is now available as a standalone product or as a plug-in for WhatsUp Gold.

But one of my favorite clients, Ipswitch Inc., just climbed even higher on my list. The network management solutions provider recently held an intriguing contest aimed at recognizing the best system administrator in all the land. In short, it was kind of like the network management industry's version of "American Idol."

Brocade has announced Brocade Network Advisor, a unified network management platform for SAN and IP networks.

Globecomm Systems, a provider of satellite-based communications infrastructure solutions and services, has announced that the Company has been awarded various contracts from US Government Agencies valued at $4 illion.

NETGEAR, a global networking company that delivers products to consumers, businesses and Internet service providers, has announced its first centralized network management console for its business products and a 10 Gbps managed switch.

Oxnard, Calif.-based video transport solution provider for broadcasters, service providers and government entities Nevion has launched new video-over-IP monitoring and management capabilities at IBC 2010 (booth #8.B70, RAI Amsterdam, Sept. 10-14).

Is automation the right path for improving network management capabilities?

ActionPacked! Networks, is a leading intelligent software provider for managing the Cisco Quality-of-Service (QoS). It has released 10 new videos about the Cisco QoS. The videos will feature four videos from the Cisco training expert and Cisco Press author, Kevin Wallace, along with four other videos from its new training series "How QoS Works."

Networks are essential to business practices - so it can be inconvenient when outages and other performance issues arise. New network management tools and initiatives can help optimize the reliability that everyday business procedures require.

Aviat Networks, an end-to-end network management solutions provider for mobility and fixed network applications, announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2010, which ended July 2, 2010.

Network Hardware Resale (NHR), a provider of pre-owned and new networking equipment, announced it has been recognized as one of the nation's fastest-growing private companies by Inc. magazine for the fourth consecutive year.

Ipswitch's Network Management Division has recently published a fine study on licensing practices in IT management -- coincidentally enough, titled "Licensing Practices in IT Management."

Ipswitch's Network Management Division, a provider of IT management solutions, announced that LodgeNet Interactive, a provider of media and connectivity solutions to the hospitality industry, has selected Ipswitch's WhatsUp Gold to manage a network of 1,300 hotels across the United States and Canada.

Oxnard, California based video transport solution provider for broadcasters, service providers and government entities Nevion has launched new video-over-IP monitoring and management capabilities at IBC 2010 (booth #8.B70, RAI Amsterdam, Sept. 10-14).

One of the most challenging things for the IT manager to coordinate within network management is the proper licensing of all software. Vendors typically sell customers the right to use their technology. In licensing arrangements, the vendor wants to maximize the economic gain, while also delivering equivalent value to the customer at the established price point. At the same time, the vendor needs to stay ahead of the competition in terms of the price to value equation.

Aditya Birla Minacs, a global business solutions company, has been certified as Processing Card Industry's Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) compliant as Level 1 Service Provider-the highest level in the PCI DSS compliance hierarchy.

Plixer International, Inc., a global player in NetFlow analysis software development, has been announced as the recipient of the "ANPM for the Masses Award" from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) in their recently released industry analysis titled "EMA RadarTM for Application-Aware Network Performance Management Q3 2010."

The AS3940 is the first 2.4 GHz transceiver with built-in star network management protocol manager that is royalty-free and provides an easy to use protocol for self-management of all network functions. This high level of integration not only speeds system design, but also decreases the MCU's workload and ensures robust data transfer (burst and streaming modes) and correct protocol handling, said austriamicrosystems.

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Kenyan telecom operator Safaricom has selected Nokia Siemens Networks' Subscriber Data Management (SDM) platform to pull together subscriber data that currently resides on multiple databases. This new integration will effectively enhance Safaricom's network management system.

Network management is a top priority for IT professionals throughout the global marketplace, yet the advancements in technologies and a push toward virtualization is increasing the pressures on these professionals and creating challenges in complete management.

Officials with BitDefender said that Total Security 2011 includes antivirus, firewall and network management tools, file encryption, online back-up, and automatic hourly updates.

The ability to effectively manage the network is important for any enterprise. A keen focus on network management and the differences between the wired and wireless side of Ethernet switches was examined in a recent Network World report.

The term "network management" means different things to different people.

Ipswitch Inc.'s network management division, developer of the WhatsUp Gold suite of IT network management solutions, has claimed that the company has achieved over 5,000 downloads of its WhatsUp Gold Engineer's Toolkit in the first month of its release.

Salary.com, a provider of on-demand talent management, payroll and compensation solutions, announced that Ipswitch, a Massachusetts-based network management software provider, has purchased CompAnalyst Market Data for its compensation market pricing.

Ipswitch, Inc.'s Network Management Division, developer of the WhatsUp Gold suite of IT management solutions, will host a free best practices webinar on Wednesday, July 28, 10 a.m. EDT to discuss the increasing importance of security log management and compliance.

Ipswitch's Network Management Division, a developer of the WhatsUp Gold suite of IT management software, has introduced its new multi-tiered WhatsUp Gold Partner Program.

Ceragon Networks, a provider of long term evolution-ready wireless backhaul solutions, announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire the right to use and develop advanced Ethernet network management software technology, which will accelerate enhancements to its network management system.

You have got to love a white paper titled "The Toxic Terabyte." That is, in fact, the title of a classic white paper from IBM discussing the question of whether data dumping threatens business efficiency (a good topic to be considering when thinking of proper network management.)

Ipswitch, Inc., the developer of the WhatsUp Gold suite of innovative IT management software, recently made an announcement that WhatsUp Gold WhatsVirtual 2.0 is now available.

Ipswitch, Inc.'s network management division, the developer of the WhatsUp Gold suite of innovative IT management software, just announced that its Event Archiver software has received the Certificate of Networthiness (CoN) from the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command.

Network security and unified threat management (UTM) solution provider Fortinet has announced that its FortiWeb-1000B Web application firewall appliance has successfully hurdled the Web Application Firewall Certification offered by ICSA labs, the independent division of Verizon Business that performs certification and vendor-neutral security product testing. The FortiWeb-1000B successfully passed security policy enforcement regarding the protection of HTTPS and HTTP Web-based applications.

Software appliances are the next evolutionary step for software delivery and network management, allowing hardware to be decoupled from the software creating adaptable mechanisms for deployment and management, says Charles Kolodgy, research vice president at IDC.

Ipswitch, Inc., developer of the WhatsUp Gold suite of IT management software, will soon be enhancing its virtual infrastructure management tool, WhatsVirtual, a plug-in module that delivers accurate and up-to-date availability and performance information into VMware-based virtual server infrastructures.

Marina Gil-Santamaria, director of product marketing for IPswitch's "WhatsUp gold" product line, was interviewed recently by TMCnet web editor Marisa Torrieri to discuss one of the most important concerns faced by service providers and enterprises today - network management.

The prime target of cyber criminals is to find ways to misappropriate businesses and users for their own profit, which can vary from financial motivation to publicity. In this article we will review the key trends we see in network security and then discuss existing and recommended counter measures. The article targets the business infrastructure, and therefore excludes targets such as widgets and smart phones.

D-Link announced the new DIR-457U router with WiFi and 3G that offers superfast data speeds, up to 7.2Mbps over 3G cellular networks. The router also speeds up the download of music and other large files from the Internet.

As networks evolve, service providers, enterprises and SMBs face the growing challenge of network management.

Agilisys, a U.K.-based IT services and outsourcing provider, designs, builds and operates an integrated end-to-end suite of IT business process services for many public and private sector clients belonging to diverse sectors of industry.

Ipswitch, a three-division company that delivers the WhatsUp Gold network management suite, announced it has been named as one of the best places to work in 2010 in the greater Boston Area by the Boston Business Journal.

(Norwalk, CT - [May 19, 2010]) Technology Marketing Corporation today announced that the Network Management channel, sponsored by Ipswitch, has been launched as the newest addition to the TMCnet channel program.

Codima Inc., a Philadelphia-based provider of integrated network management software products, announced that it has unveiled its new product portfolio comprising of five new specialized toolboxes tailored to meet all the needs of the specific tasks involved in managing business critical data and IP Telephony networks.

Looking to provide end-to-end network management of the credit union's 10 branches, Alabama One Credit Union announced it has chosen the WhatsUp Gold suite of innovative IT management solutions, developed by Ipswitch, Inc.'s Network Management Division.

In the enterprise, the network may run everything from the heating and cooling system to the management of customer data within the enterprise CRM system and everything in between.

While not everyone appreciates policy management, when it comes to mobile broadband use, the proper management can ensure service continuation. Broadhop is one company that is moving policy forward into the next generation.

Consequences for the smartphone and netbook markets aside, the HP-Palm announcement drove HP and Palm clients, carriers, network operators, consumers, industry analysts and media members to the Internet, an effort that strained networks at close of market - already a busy time.

In a sign of the network's increasingly important role in business operations, 6WIND, a provider of packet processing software for embedded systems, this week announced that it has joined the eNsemble Multi-Core Alliance. The alliance is an industry organization that promotes innovations in multi-core parallel processing platforms and software development.