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FORMER EXECUTIVES Of Excite@Home and Global Crossing announced the formation of a company called NOCpulse, which later this year will provide operational support services to IT organizations running corporate Web sites.
Backed by $12 million in venture funding, the company plans to use a mix of open-source and internally developed tools to monitor the performance of systems and networks that reside in a customer's Web site.
"Our service will allow people to be proactive, rather than reactive," said the company's president, Paul Santinelli, who was formerly with broadband services provider Global Crossing, based in Hamilton, Bermuda. "At most sites today, nobody knows what services are running on what machines, so...