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Ross Mayfield and Andrew McAfee: Web 2.0 for Enterprise

Michael Johnson — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 04:01:41 +0000

According to these leaders of the Web 2.0 movement, businesses can stimulate collaboration from within by adopting blogs, wikis, RSS, AJAX and other tools and services. Jointly conducting a keynote address at the Fall ‘06 Interop meetup in New York City: Ross Mayfield, CEO, SocialText, and Andrew P. McAfee, associate professor, Harvard Business School.

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It’s A Little Bit More Complicated Than That: CA CEO John Swainson on Complexity, Live at Interop 2006

Michael Johnson — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:38:46 +0000

New developments in technology are having an impact on businesses and organizations, sometimes in unexpected or challenging ways. John Swainson, president and chief executive officer of CA, used a keynote address at Interop 2006, in New York City earlier this month, to reflect on the response of the IT industry.

Do Telecoms Matter? Qwest’s Scott Cassell, Director, Product Management

Michael Johnson — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:59:23 +0000

Scott Cassell, director of product management at Qwest Communications proposes that the role of telecoms has to change, as we approach a future of unified communication, with the integration of wireless, VoIP, presence, conferencing and messaging. He spoke at the Fall 2006 Interop Conference in New York City.

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LAN Security: ConSentry Networks’ Dan Leary

Michael Johnson — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:21:09 +0000

According to ConSentry Networks Vice President of Marketing Dan Leary, LAN security perimeters have changed, given that security threat sources can come from within (and not just from outside) the LAN. Leary spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at INTEROP 2006 in New York.

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Sounds of Interop New York City

Michael Johnson — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:01:11 +0000

Interop goes to the Big Apple for its second U.S. IT event this year. PodTech’s Michael Johnson takes to the floor and talks with a few of the exhibitors: Netcordia, CA, Inc., and Network General.

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Scott Kriens Chairman, CEO, Juniper Networks on “Keeping It Real”

Michael Johnson — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:32:51 +0000

Real Time Enterprise, Practical Steps & Future Networks:
At Interop 2006 in New York City, Scott Kriens speaks about the practical side of growing the emerging network, and the path to a point where people, devices, machines and information can talk to one another in a seamless fashion.

More photos from Interop 2006 on Flickr

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Sounds of Interop 2006 Part IV

editor — Fri, 05 May 2006 22:37:12 +0000

Join PodTech’s Michael Johnson at Interop 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada for part 4 of the Sounds of Interop, featuring exhibitors from the floor, including EMC Corporation, NetScout, and AirMagnet.

Links:
emc.com
netscout.com
airmagnet.com

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Sounds of Interop 2006 Part V

editor — Fri, 05 May 2006 20:45:57 +0000

Join PodTech’s Michael Johnson at Interop 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada for the final installmentof the Sounds of Interop 2006, featuring Avaya, Netgear, and Trusted Computing Group.

Links:
avaya.com
netgear.com
trustedcomputinggroup.org

Tags: Interop, Avaya, Netgear, Trusted Computing Group

Sometimes Striving to Innovate Drives Innovation

editor — Thu, 04 May 2006 02:17:19 +0000

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 3, 2006 (PodTech News) — Consumer demand has driven innovation, especially in consumer products. It’s driving enterprise innovation, too, but that doesn’t mean infrastructure companies are going to be making mp3 players anytime soon. It’s more like this: new ideas in networking products are being driven indirectly by end users who don’t know the benefits. Denny Miu, CEO of Gigamon Systems, explained the role of Interop and the yearly project to create an unbreakable network using the products of vendors attending the event. They spoke in front of NOC #1, one of three Interop Network Operations Centers on the exhibition floor.

Tags: Denny Miu, Gigamon, Interop, NOC, Interop Network Operations

Sounds of Interop 2006 Part III

editor — Thu, 04 May 2006 01:43:05 +0000

Join PodTech’s Michael Johnson at Interop 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada for part 3 of the Sounds of Interop, featuring exhibitors from the floor, including ConSentry, Expand Networks, MIR3, Highwall, and Safenet.

For more info see:
www.consentry.com
www.expand.com
www.mir3.com
www.highwalltech.com
www.safenet-inc.com

Tags: Interop 2006, Interop, ConSentry, Expand Networks, MIR3, Highwall, Safenet

Interop: Google Sells to the Enterprise

editor — Wed, 03 May 2006 23:35:07 +0000

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 3, 2006 (PodTech News) — The general manager of Google Enterprise, Dave Girouard, concluded his Interop keynote with a sales pitch: Google OneBox for the enterprise. “A lot of what we do on Google, we actually believe there’s room for it in the enterprise,” Girouard said. Analysts have cited the limitations of Google’s search technologies for businesses, although Google has invited developers to help make the appliance more robust.

Tags: Google Enterprise, Dave Girouard, Interop, Google, OneBox

Interop: Consumer Technology Driving Innovation Says Google Exec

editor — Wed, 03 May 2006 20:49:03 +0000

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 3, 2006 (PodTech News) — The general manager of Google Enterprise, Dave Girouard, devoted his morning Interop keynote to the importance of consumer technology to enterprise technology companies. “Consumer technology is driving innovation,” he told a crowd of enterprise technology professionals. “Generally enterprise technology isn’t really designed with the end users in mind–it’s designed with a business process in mind.”

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Interop Keynote: Juniper CEO Calls for Open Standards in Networking Industry

editor — Wed, 03 May 2006 20:15:33 +0000

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 3, 2006 (PodTech News) — The CEO of Juniper Networks, Scott Kriens, says the challenge to the networking industry is to build open systems. “We’ve got to change as an industry from multiple simultaneous competing proprietary technologies,” he admonished, “into a much more open available standards-based way which presents the elements of a network at whatever layer they may be, so they can interact largely through that services layer and allow us to build scalable solutions that we can rely on to run the business.”

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Interop Keynote: Juniper’s Scott Kriens Says The Enterprise Operates a Global Campus

editor — Wed, 03 May 2006 19:58:46 +0000

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 2, 2006 (PodTech News) — Juniper CEO Scott Kriens took the keynote stage at the Interop conference in Las Vegas this morning and outlined several serious problems facing the developers of networking products, including security and fragmented business structures. “It is no longer a physical proposition,” Kriens said. “At the end of the day we’re talking about an extended enterprise model–extended supply chains, work forces, materials, manufacturing, contractors, partners; and all of that [must work together] because it has to.”

Tags: Juniper, Scott Kriens, Interop

Sounds of Interop 2006 Part I

editor — Wed, 03 May 2006 03:08:50 +0000

Join PodTech’s Michael Johnson as he roams the floors and hallways of the Mandalay Bay Hotel Convention Center, talking with M-Systems, Crescendo Networks, and Viking Interworks about connectivity, security, and wireless data management.

More info at:
http://www.msystems.com
http://www.crescendonetworks.com
http://www.vikinginterworks.com

Tags: M-Systems, Crescendo Networks, Viking Interworks, connectivity, security, wireless data management

Sounds of Interop 2006 Part II

editor — Wed, 03 May 2006 03:07:22 +0000

Join PodTech’s Michael Johnson for part 2 of the sounds of Interop, featuring Blue Coat, D-Link, Network Automation, and Vernier Networks.

Tags: Interop, Blue Coat, D-Link, Network Automation, Vernier Networks

Interop Keynote: Chambers Cites the Rise of the Empowered Consumer

editor — Tue, 02 May 2006 21:12:56 +0000

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 2, 2006 (PodTech) — Cisco CEO John Chambers closed his Interop keynote speech arguing that networks which foster collaboration must serve the end user. “You talk about a bandwidth hog, it will be,” Chambers cautioned. “Think about it not in terms of productivity through IP-based applications, but productivity through collaboration and the experience.”

Tags: Cisco, John Chambers, Interop

Interop Keynote: Cisco’s Chambers Outlines Globalization, Mobilization, & Virtualization

editor — Tue, 02 May 2006 21:03:02 +0000

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 2, 2006 (PodTech News) — Citing a “new digital culture” Cisco CEO John Chambers said the delivery of audio and video would usher in a new wave of collaboration in which hardware and software would work interoperably without detection by users. “I create a broadcast first, people watch it. Then it was video on demand I got to see how many people watched it for how long. Then we began to interact back and forth, you watch the video on demand when you want it often at home which I love, and then you’d give me feedback back on whether you agreed or not. And over time this would be a collaboration,” Chambers explained. “But that will occur at each employee’s desktop.”

Tags: Cisco, John Chambers, video on demand

Interop Keynote: Cisco Says Transportation Industry Prime Candidate for Collaboration

editor — Tue, 02 May 2006 20:34:03 +0000

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 2, 2006 (PodTech News) — The CEO of Cisco Systems, John Chambers, says the transportation industry would significantly benefit from his company’s concept of unified collaboration. He welcomed a Cisco executive to the stage who showed several examples of how networks deliver a variety of real time services such as the re-routing of trains. “What this system is doing now is it’s actually clearing that segment of track,” said Jim Grubb while conducting the demonstration. “One application effectively doubles the utilization of the rail system.”

Tags: Cisco, John Chambers, Jim Grubb

Interop Keynote: Chambers Touts Unified Collaboration

editor — Tue, 02 May 2006 19:41:27 +0000

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 2, 2006 (PodTech News) — Cisco CEOJohn Chambers told an Interop keynote audience his company is so committed to the concept of unified collaboration that it borrowed money for the first time in its history in order to finance the $6.9 billion acquisition of Scientific Atlanta announced last November. “As this changes and the speed of this collaboration changes, and you communicate by whatever anytime you want in any format you want, and you get the information back anywhere you want in any format you want then you see speed of decision change,” he offered. “I literally think you’ll have complete virtualization of storage, application and processors,” Chambers noted while standing below a slide that read, “The network is the most scalable price performance platform since the microprocessor.”

Tags: Cisco, John Chambers, Interop, Scientific Atlanta, virtualization, microprocessor

Interop Keynote: Cisco’s John Chambers Says, “Next Market Transition is Collaboration.”

editor — Tue, 02 May 2006 19:09:56 +0000

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 2, 2006 (PodTech News) — Cisco CEO John Chambers, who delivered the opening keynote of the Interop conference in Las Vegas, says the next wave of innovation will be driven by user needs to collaborate in real time over IP networks. “Watch how often we’ve been accurate in the past,” Chambers said, referring to Cisco’s acquisitions to move into new market segments. “The reason we’re pretty accurate–we keep our fingers on your pulse pretty tightly,” he reminded Interop conference attendees.

Building Hot Stage: A Talk with Brian Chee - Part 3 of 3

editor — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:30:38 +0000

Brian Chee, a long time veteran of the InteropNET team and a team lead for wireless, talks with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about the greater effect of the Interoperability event, and its influence on consumers on the web, and enterprise.

http://interop.com/lasvegas

Building Hot Stage: A Talk with Brian Chee Part 2 of 3

editor — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:00:18 +0000

Brian Chee, a long time veteran of the InteropNET team and a team lead for wireless, talks with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about assembling the network at Hot Stage, the technology behind it, its purpose, and its philosophy. Time: 13:34
http://www.interop.com/lasvegas/

Before Interop, There’s Hot Stage: A Talk with Brian Chee Part 1 of 3

editor — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:00:49 +0000

Brian Chee, a long time veteran of the InteropNET team and a team lead for wireless, talks with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about the beginnings of the Interoperability event, in the mid-eighties. Hot Stage happens a month before Interop. A huge network is built up, then broken down and recreated at the Interop conference in Las Vegas. It’s a cooperative industrial testing ground, where manufacturers get a chance to see if their products work “in the real world”. Brian Chee, is Senior Contributing Editor, InfoWorld Media Group and Director of the Advanced Network Computing Laboratory at the University of Hawaii’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST). Time: 12:07
www.interop.com/lasvegas/

Interop Las Vegas 2006 - Coming Soon

editor — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:38:42 +0000

PodTech’s Fresh Voices will be in Las Vegas covering Interop from beginning to end (April 30 - May 5).

PodTech InfoTalk and PodTech News will bring you keynote speeches, candid interviews, first reviews of new products being shown, and all the sounds from the show floor. Can’t make it to the conference? Be sure to subscribe now to get all of PodTech’s innovative podcasts from Interop Las Vegas 2006.