Shunra, the leading provider of application performance engineering systems for network and web applications, recently announced the appointment of veteran business development executive Bill Varga as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Varga has built explosively successful sales and BD organizations over the past two decades at multiple software companies, including Ounce Labs (EVP of Sales and BD), Quova (EVP of BD) and Interact Commerce (VP of Sales).

• Enables enterprises to access CoS optimized for data back-up and Scalable Video Coding desktop video applications

MASERGY, a privately held global network service provider that has redefined enterprise wide-area networking by delivering innovative products, advanced capabilities and a superior customer experience, recently launched its new Limited Plane as its sixth class of service (CoS).

Shunra Software released Virtual Enterprise (VE) Suite v6.1 with new enhancements that enable performance and network engineers to better predict transaction response times of business critical, data-intensive, or mobile applications on their network. Additionally, this release includes a new add-on software module VE Bandwidth Catcher Lite, delivering an accurate, real world view into how bandwidth availability will impact application performance. For a limited time, this new add-on module can be downloaded for free.

• Resilient, Efficient, Scalable Data Solutions Critical to Meeting Growing Demand for Bandwidth at Campuses and Data Centers

Avaya, a global leader in enterprise communications systems, software and services, recently announced the results of a global survey indicating enterprises today prefer networking solutions that are more resilient, efficient and scalable in supporting the growing bandwidth demands of their communications technologies. These findings validate the technological strategy of Avaya's "Fit for Purpose" data networking solutions that were announced earlier this week at Interop Las Vegas 2010.

• Shifting Market Away From "One Size Fits All" Data Solutions

Avaya, a global leader in enterprise communications systems, software and services, recently at Interop 2010 unveiled new data products that are faster, more cost-effective, and are specifically designed to support the growing needs of today's bandwidth-hungry video and unified communications (UC) applications. These products are designed to address the main challenge that enterprises face today: how to cost-effectively add the bandwidth needed to position them for growth.

• Annual Enterprise Communications Survey indicates 85 percent of respondents to make major investments in communications this year

Avaya recently announced the results of the annual survey by the International Avaya User Group (IAUG), the independent, international organization of Avaya and heritage Nortel customers, that indicated 85 percent of respondents intend to make significant investments in one or more business communications solutions over the next 12 months.

• Dynamic, application-aware WAN optimization solution integrates [MPLS and Internet] to maximize IT performance, continuity and savings

Ipanema Technologies, the industry leader in integrated solutions for enterprise WAN management, recently launched its Hybrid Network Unification solution. This automated solution uses "sense and respond" intelligence to monitor, control, accelerate and select the best path among MPLS and Internet networks for each individual user's traffic - all in real-time.

• New Product Enhances E-mail and Content Security Platform from WatchGuard

WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, recently announced the launch of WatchGuard Quarantine Management Server (QMS). This bolsters the WatchGuard family of extensible content security (XCS) offerings to give businesses additional protection against spam, phishing and malware-laden messages.

• Media Infrastructure Company Brings Leading Content Delivery and Media Solutions to Advance Juniper's Vision for the "New Network"

Juniper Networks® recently announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Ankeena Networks, a privately-held provider of new media infrastructure technology. Ankeena's solution delivers online media content at massive scale, while providing a television-like viewing experience for media with dramatically reduced delivery costs. In alignment with Juniper's vision for the "New Network," Juniper will integrate Ankeena's technology into its solutions portfolio to address the rising demand for rich media content while significantly improving the economics of content delivery for service providers. The financial impact of this transaction is expected to be immaterial with consideration at closing of less than $100 million. Additional terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Juniper collaborates with a group of other industry leaders on a live demonstration of 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) interoperability, showing the ability to pass 100 GigE traffic between a router and an optical transport system using two different CFP optical transceivers implementing the IEEE 802.3ba 100GBASE-LR4 draft standard. The demonstration marks a significant step towards commercial availability of 100 GigE services at economic cost levels.

Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, Inc., recently announced its GoToMeeting® App for iPad™ is now available on the App Store. The app boosts mobile work productivity by enabling anyone to attend an online meeting from anywhere.

AirMagnet Inc., a Fluke Networks company,recently announced that AirMagnet Enterprise, the industry's premier application for managing and securing corporate WLAN deployments, delivers zero-day protection against the latest Wi-Fi security exploits and vulnerabilities, ensuring that AirMagnet customers are protected without having to upgrade their current systems.

• A Bluesocket engineer joined a local Massachusetts relief mission to install wireless connectivity at the Pierre Payen Hospital, located 40 miles outside of Port-au-Prince.

Bluesocket, Inc., a leader in delivering secure and scalable wireless solutions for the enterprise, is doing what it can to enhance a local relief effort to Haiti. The mission, named Equipe Huit (Team 8), has been driven by concerned local families and schools, a local philanthropist and contributing companies and has since grown into one of the largest private relief efforts to the region.

• BreakingPoint Cybersecurity Products Recognized for Breakthrough Innovation in Hardening Federal Cyber Infrastructure Components and Lawful Intercept Solutions

BreakingPoint announced recently that the company has been awarded a Best of FOSE Award for 2010 by Government Computer News. FOSE is recognized as the most comprehensive event for government IT professionals, and the award program recognizes only the most outstanding and innovative IT products in the industry.

• Digital Communications Between Tokyo and Shanghai Locations Previously Unreliable and of Poor Quality

Blue Coat Systems, Inc., the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, recently announced that Intec Inc., a prominent Japanese IT consulting company, has deployed Blue Coat® PacketShaper®  appliances to enable quality video conferencing, Voice over IP (VoIP), email and file exchange between its headquarters in Tokyo and its software development center in Shanghai. Before deploying the PacketShaper appliances, latency and network congestion prevented the productive use of video conferencing and VoIP telephony between the offices and also made email and remote file access extremely slow.

Blue Coat Systems, Inc., the technology leader in Application Delivery Networking, recently announced that IDC, a leading market research and advisory firm, has named Blue Coat as the worldwide market share leader in WAN Application Delivery for 2009.  Blue Coat increased its market share to 28.7 percent in 2009, from 24.5 percent in 2008, on a 6.6 percent increase in revenue year over year.

Akamai Technologies, Inc., the leader in powering video, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, recently announced that since the Akamai HD Network launch in September 2009, leading companies in the digital media ecosystem have successfully tested, integrated and supported the Akamai HD Network. The Akamai HD Network leverages VAR, solution and technology companies to provide an end-to-end solution, including signal acquisition, encoding, content management, mobile support, video delivery, pre-built and custom video players, and analytics.

• Akamai network achieves delivery milestone of over 3.4 Terabits per second of Web traffic

Akamai Technologies, Inc., the leader in powering video, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, recently announced that its global network reached an all-time high for total content served. Spurred by unprecedented end user demand for premium online coverage of major sporting events as well as customer product announcements and software releases, the Akamai EdgePlatform™ reached a new, single-day peak of 3.45 Terabits per second (Tbps) of content served on Friday, April 9th. This rate of content served is Akamai's highest in more than ten years in business, and represents total, simultaneous content served in support of over 3,100 customers worldwide.

• SpectraGuard Enterprise WIPS Selected for Its Ease of Use and Automation

AirTight Networks' SpectraGuard® Enterprise product selected by Secure Technology Hawaii, Inc., Hawaii's leading network security firm.

• Acquisition of Paglo enables a single, easy-to-use platform for SMBs and IT professionals to monitor, control and support everything IT

Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, Inc., recently announced that it was entering the IT Management sector with the launch of GoToManage™, an integrated web-based platform for monitoring, controlling and supporting attended or unattended IT infrastructure anywhere. The launch of the new GoToManage service enables Citrix Online to meet accelerating demand from the large emerging SaaS-based IT management market, estimated by leading analyst firm Forrester Research to reach $4 billion in 2013 (How Big Is SaaS In IT Management Software?, November 2008). GoToManage will provide small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) and managed service providers (MSPs) an affordable alternative to costly and complex premise-based software. GoToManage can be purchased individually today or bundled with its remote support services later this year.

• Less than one-year since acquiring Nortel's Alteon assets, Radware expands product offering to align datacenter application infrastructure with business requirements

Radware, the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, recently announced the expansion of its Alteon® Application Switch product line with two new OnDemand® switches®, the Alteon 4408 and Alteon 4416. The Alteon 4-series is available less than one-year after Radware acquired Nortel's layer 4-7 application switching business, and rounds-out the product suite together with the recently introduced Alteon 5412, which now offers complete application delivery throughput coverage up to 20 Gbps.

• Telecom industry looking for solutions for increased broadband usage, transition to virtual data centers and cloud computing as well as more aggressive security attacks

Radware, the leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, offers mobile operators tailored solutions to streamline and secure new MSP/SDP deployments, as well as address new application delivery and security challenges in the mobile data center, such as virtualization and the transformation to cloud-based services.

• New WatchGuard XTM 2 Series Family of Multifunction Firewalls Provide Strong Security, Advanced Networking in an Easy to Use Appliance

WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, recently at RSA and CeBIT unveiled a new line of multifunction security appliances, the WatchGuard XTM 2 Series. Ideal for small businesses and branch offices with up to 50 people, the WatchGuard XTM 2 Series provides comprehensive network, application and data security in one easy to manage appliance.

• Global Crossing SIP Trunking Solution Recognized for Outstanding Innovation
  

Global Crossing, a leading global IP solutions provider, recently announced that Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC®) INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has recognized Global Crossing's Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) Trunking solution with its 2009 Product of the Year Award.

• New Best Practices Guide Shows How 802.11n Wi-Fi Can Lower Costs, Improve Services During A Wired Network Refresh

Aruba Networks, Inc., a global leader in 802.11n wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions, recently announced the availability of "Network Rightsizing Best Practices Guide," a reference primer compiled from real-world implementations, that shows how 802.11n Wi-Fi can significantly lower the cost of refreshing wired LAN infrastructure while also improving services.