Enterprise content management (ECM) solutions have enabled organizations to more effectively manage information. Yet, the lack of an ECM standard has presented a huge challenge: How can content-enabled applications access and manage content among disparate systems?

To solve this problem, EMC, IBM, and Microsoft are joining forces to lead the drive ...

Emergency management personnel require seamless communications during times of crisis to rapidly coordinate assessment of and response to natural disasters and man-made events. Up until now, direct communications between federal, state and local first responders has been challenging due to disparate, and often, incompatible systems. Chuck Vick, manager ...

Jared Youtsey a senior developer from Configuresoft and Warren Wilbee, a Microsoft Architect Evangelist sit down and discuss how to utilize Microsoft’s WorkFlow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation for building workflow enabled service oriented solutions. Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building ...

Discover what Intel is innovating for your digital life - interoperable devices communicating with a centralized home storage server.

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Following up on a recent interview I did with analysts from market research firm INPUT, who concluded that nationwide interoperability for first responder communications systems is likely still a decade away, I spoke with Cisco Systems’ Director of Homeland Security Chris Josephs.

Josephs agrees progress has been slow. But he says ...

A few weeks after former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge told me that the biggest deficiency in homeland security is public safety communications, analysts at market research firm INPUT released a report that says nationwide interoperability for first responder communication systems is probably 10 years away.

Here’s an interview with ...

In the wake of the deaths of two New York City Fire Fighters at an abandoned building near Ground Zero, the issue of interoperable broadband communications for first responders has once again taken center stage. But some are asking why it is still an issue six years later.

To get some ...

David Fair explains how PCI Express* Gen 2 increases speed, device interoperability and bandwidth. He also provides insight into the Geneseo proposal that Intel and IBM gave to PCI-SIG.

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At Interop Las Vegas 2007, Alcatel-Lucent introduced the OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian, a PCMCIA card designed to lock data on laptops. The new system can secure, monitor, manage and even destroy laptop data if it’s lost or stolen. PodTech’s Rio Pesino visited Alcatel-Lucent’s booth and previewed the ...

Cisco’s VP of Mobility Solutions, Alan Cohen, and Zeus Kerravala, senior VP for Enterprise Research with Yankee Group, talked about Cisco’s vision for the Unified Wireless Network, and about the mobility landscape, with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau, at Interop Las Vegas 2007. Cohen discussed some of Cisco’s mobility solutions in the ...

In a podcast from the floor of Interop 2007 in Las Vegas, John Grady, Netgear’s senior director of product marketing for SMB, outlines Netgear’s upcoming strategy for SMB products, and talks about the ProSafe line of products with a lifetime warranty, and more. This is a Netgear ...

In this podcast, sounds from the floor of INTEROP 2007. At the NETGEAR booth, PodTech’s Michael Johnson talks with a number of conference participants who share their thoughts on SMB challenges, and their experience using NETGEAR in their everyday work lives.

Vivek Chugh of NETGEAR visits PodTech in this podcast focusing on the NETGEAR’s new ProSafe Smart Wireless Switch. Introduced this week at Interop, the ProSafe Smart Wireless Switch is a great solution for small- and medium-size businesses looking to keep costs down and allow for future growth while effectively ...

In San Francisco, Intel, with Motion Computing and the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center, announced the launch of the Motion C5 mobile clinical assistant, a lightweight tablet computer specifically designed for use in hospitals, for nurse patient care. It features a camera, barcode scanner, ...

Kevin Hohenbrink, product manager at F5 Networks, discusses Business Impact analysis and its importance in a data disaster recovery strategy. Hohenbrink is the optimization manager for the WANJet, F5’s appliace-based data compression and accelerator tool. This is the second of a two part interview. This is an F5 ...

Platforms are validated as partners develop solutions. Control4 invited a number of their key partners to display and show their solutions at CES. The solutions enhance and extend the lighting, climate, audio/visual, and security benefits. From Somfy’s solutions to manage window coverings and lighting, to iPort’s ...

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Intel CEO Paul Otellini took the stage in San Francisco Monday to announce a new alliance. Listen here for the audio of the entire presentation and the Q&A session.

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Forrester analyst and vice president Lisa Pierce told a group of Qwest customers that the great unknown — whether IT decisions today will fit with technologies of tomorrow — is a fact of life. While the fear of making mistakes in IT decisions doesn’t justify a company’s insistence on ...

In this interview, David Boloker explains Ajax as the culmination of unfolding technologies since the late 1990s and puts Ajax in the Web 2.0 perspective. He also talks about the role of the Open Ajax Alliance in promoting the adoption of Ajax and interoperability across the toolkits.

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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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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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