Top Coverage Highlights from Interop

NetWitness @ Interop Vegas 2008
By N/A
May 22, 2008
LoveMyTool
Vendor Profile - NetWitness® Corporation provides patented next generation network monitoring software products that enable organizations to achieve Total Network Knowledge™.

INTEROP -- The View from the Floor
By Jennifer O'Connell
May 21, 2008
ART + science
All in all, INTEROP was bustling, with attendance up from last year, and 170 new exhibiting companies - a 25 percent increase. Even if the show floor continues to evolve, it appears that trade events are alive and kicking.

Interop: Riverbed Speeds Things Up
By Peter Brockmann
May 12, 2008
Brockmann and Company
I met with Alan Saldich, the VP of Product Marketing and Alliances and Kim Kapustka, the Senior Director of Corporate Marketing at Interop to discuss Riverbed's role and capabilities for the WAN. Founded in 2002 and with shipping product since 2004, the company has accumulated 4000 customers, 750 employees, global operations and a revenue run-rate of $300 million.

Interop: Array Networks Delivers User-Defined Terminal Service
By Peter Brockmann
May 9, 2008
Brockmann and Company
Sunil Cherian, the VP of Product Marketing at Array Networks and I had a great meeting at the end of a long day at Interop. The SSL VPN challenger has introduced a green product line.

Interop: Activision's HD Video Conferencing Implementation
By Peter Brockmann
May 9, 2008
Brockmann and Company
Robert Durand, the PR Director at LifeSize , myself and Thomas Fenady, the Director of IT for Activision participated in a panel discussion around the adoption and use of HD video conferencing equipment and services to improve business.

The evolving NOC and IT prestige: How to break down silos and prove your worth
By Amy Kucharik
May 8, 2008
SearchNetworking
At Interop Las Vegas last week, Dr. Jim Metzler, vice president of Ashton, Metzler & Associates, called on network pros and IT pros to overcome technological and organizational silos in order to increase the prestige of IT and to improve overall technology performance.

Vendors at Interop in a scrum over WLAN architecture
By Shamus McGillicuddy
May 7, 2008
SearchNetworking
At Interop in Las Vegas last week, a vendor panel discussion on the "Great WLAN Architecture Debate" turned into an argument about cell-based topology.

Content connections: Interop/Software 2008 addresses distributed performance challenges inherent to PLM
By Kevin Parker
May 7, 2008
Manufacturing Business Technology
At this year's Interop/Software 2008 conference and expo, it was clear that at least several IT infrastructure providers-including Riverbed, Akamai, and Fastsoft-have "felt the pain" of manufacturers and are gearing their solutions to address the problem. Yet the companies seem to be taking decidedly different approaches.

NetScaler MPX at INTEROP Las Vegas
By Barry Flanagan
May 7, 2008
Citrix
Klaus Oestermann,VP of the Application Networking Group at Citrix, did an short interview with Aving.net at INTEROP Las Vegas about the new Citrix NetScaler MPX.

Why so little IPv6 at Interop?
By Martin J. Levy
May 7, 2008
Network World
I returned today from Interop 2008 Las Vegas expo, where I attended to gauge how well prepared exhibitors were for IPv6 network deployment.

More from Interop on Power Savings
By Eric Krapf
May 7, 2008
No Jitter
In this instance, it was an Interop session on "Deploying a Green IP Telephony Network," and the speaker was Harpreet Chadha, senior director, product management at Extreme Networks.

Interop: LifeSize Shows Off The Product
By Peter Brockmann
May 7, 2008
Brockmann and Company
LifeSize of Austin TX had a really clever approach to the classic problem of the trade show booth. They took the people who rarely get out of the office (the inside sales professionals) and dressed 'em up in trade show uniforms and flooded the boundaries of the booth with talkative and friendly customer-facing people. Each had a similar story - they knew the products, listened to what your requirements were and delivered the next step of the qualification process.

Interop: Nortel Pushes Performance/kW
By Peter Brockmann
May 7, 2008
Brockmann and Company
Nortel pushed hard on 'green ethernet switching' against the market leader in enterprise switching. They had ads in the show guide claiming up to 50% lower energy consumption over the equivalent Cisco switching product.

Interop 2008 Winner Best of Interop Networking
By Tugba Goskel
May 6, 2008
Cisco Data Center Blog
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is the recipient of Interop 2008 Product of the Year. It is the first Data Center class switch in the Nexus portfolio offering transport flexibility, operational continuity and infrastructure scalability.

Interop: The impact of IP Video on Campus Network
By Tugba Goskel
May 6, 2008
Cisco Data Center Blog
Nick Lippis, Publisher of The Lippis Report, discuses the benefits of virtualization in the data center and provides an overview of IP Video deployment including bandwidth scalability and security requirements on the campus network. For more info, please check out www.lippis.com.

Interop and Software 2008 Booth Crawl
By John Hsieh
May 6, 2008
Extremely Innovative Ideas
Interop and Software 2008 at Mandalay Bay Convention centered just wrapped up last week. James Maguire from Datamation filmed a "virtual booth crawl" with 30 second pitches from select vendors - most of whom were being awarded for innovation in software. You can check it out here.

Interop Las Vegas: Take a Virtual Booth Crawl
By James Maguire
May 6, 2008
Datamation
The Interop trade show in Las Vegas, held last week, hosted hundreds of tech vendors. The technology ran the gamut, from SaaS to virtualization, servers to networking gear, marketing to log management to security.

Going Retro at Interop
By N/A
May 6, 2008
Network Observations
So you may have noticed our absence on the blog. Being busy at Interop leaves little time for other things. I'll talk about some of our activities and what was HOT at Interop through out this week. If you were at the show, you may have seen us talking about GigaStor and the troubleshooting advantages of Retrospective Network Analysis.

Interop: Competitive Booth Practices
By Peter Brockmann
May 6, 2008
Brockmann and Company
Interop is in Vegas, so naturally many vendors take advantage of the readily available entertainment resources to deliver an amazing experience that stimulates the memory of participants, long after the shows, jugglers and booth babes are gone.

Interop: Ortronics Data Center Infrastructure
By Peter Brockmann
May 6, 2008
Brockmann and Company
Nortel pushed hard on 'green ethernet switching' against the market leader in enterprise switching. They had ads in the show guide claiming up to 50% lower energy consumption over the equivalent Cisco switching product.

Interop: Energy Camp LV08 Stream of Consciousness
By Peter Brockmann
May 6, 2008
Brockmann and Company
David Berlind, the GM of the unconference division of TechWeb, the Interop producers, spoke about CFL (Compact Flourescent Lighting) disposal and how the mercury inside the bulb makes recycling burned out bulbs a necessity to avoid landfill contamination.

What Is Driving Faster Networks?
By Michael J. Miller
May 6, 2008
PC Mag
At the InterOp show last week, it was easy to see 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches, and of course, lots and lots of 1 Gigabit switches. But one of the questions I wondered about was what was driving the demand for faster networks on the corporate level?

A Few Insightful Nuggets from Interop
By Derrick Harris
May 5, 2008
GRID Today
I stopped by the Interop show here in Las Vegas last week hoping to catch some enlightening discussion about grid and/or cloud computing. As it turns out, however, we've featured, or at least covered, just about every cloud service provider at the show (including Enomaly, Elastra and Amazon Web Services), so there wasn't a whole lot of insights that would be new to regular readers of this publication.

Interop Unconference: Taking a bite out of the Web Operations sandwich
By N/A
May 5, 2008
bitcurrent
I know I'm a little late with this, considering the fact that Unconference was last Tuesday. And I already got the lecture on relevance and blog timing from Mr. Bitcurrent himself, but my current experiments on creating the 25th and 26th hours of a day are not as successful as I'd like, so this is really the first chance I've had to put something down.

Microsoft Learns Interop Is About Interoperability
By Mitchell Ashley
May 5, 2008
Network World
Microsoft had three big themes during their appearance at last week's Interop 2008 conference in Las Vegas; interoperability, Network Access Protection (NAP) and Unified Communications. Yes, I said interoperability. Over and over again I heard mention that so many were surprised by Microsoft's open stance (pun intended) towards interoperability between Microsoft, partner and other third-party products. What was surprising is that I heard it from network equipment, security and software companies alike. Are Microsoft's actions matching up to their words? It appears so.

Network Intruments @ Interop Vegas 2008
By N/A
May 5, 2008
Love My Tool
Network Instruments provides in-depth network intelligence and continuous network availability through innovative analysis solutions. Enterprise network professionals depend on Network Instruments' Observer product line for unparalleled network visibility to efficiently solve network problems and manage deployments.

Wrapping up Interop
By Jon Oltsik
May 5, 2008
CNET
My networking guru colleague Bob Laliberte and I wrapped up our week in Vegas at Interop, grabbing the last flight to Manchester, N.H., on Thursday evening. A few final thoughts:

After Interop...
By Curtis Franklin
May 5, 2008
InfoWorld
So I'm back in the office and thinking about what I saw and heard at Interop. What do I think you should be thinking about?

Motorola To Launch Wireless-Specific Channel Program
By Andrew R Hickey
May 5, 2008
ChannelWeb
Fresh off Motorola (NYSE:MOT) Enterprise Mobility President Kathy Paladino's Interop Las Vegas proclamation that the wired network will soon be dead, the Schaumberg, Ill.-based vendor is planning to launch a wireless-specific partner program to help VARs broaden their WLAN portfolios.

Slowdown in Vegas
By Craig Mathias
May 5, 2008
Network World
But to business. I was at Interop last week, and mostly used the Eee for e-mail and such. It's not too big to carry everywhere if you put it in a bag, and there was of course ubiquitous Wi-Fi coverage in the Mandalay Bay conference center, courtesy of Aruba Networks.

Ethernet Alliance honors paper by Florida student
By Loring Wirbel
May 5, 2008
EETimes
The Ethernet Alliance launched a new effort at the recent Interop show to honor student papers that advance Ethernet technology. The first recipient of the award is Francisco Blanquicet of the University of South Florida at Tampa, who developed a method of using the Pause command in 802.3 standards to reduce the power dissipation of Ethernet switches.

Video: Interop show highlights green IT and videoconferencing
By Matt Hamblen
May 5, 2008
ComputerWorld
Last week's Interop 2008 was a wide-ranging networking technology show, with more than 500 vendors and 18,000 attendees -- and a diversity of networking products from security to wireless.

SLIDESHOW: Interop for Smaller Businesses
By N/A
May 5, 2008
bMighty
Interop Las Vegas was bristling with product announcements, new services, innovative solutions, and lively debate about the next hot technology. Back from the show, bMighty delivers a selection of show snapshots for smaller businesses

Mark Templeton Keynote at Interop Las Vegas 2008
By Vishal Ganeriwala
May 5, 2008
Citrix
Mark Templeton took the center stage at Ineterop Las Vegas 2008 and challenged the global IT community to do something different by optimizing networking services, virtualization, and application acceleration to create a dynamic application delivery infrastructure that enables a more flexible way of providing applications to users.

Lippis Report Issue 105: What I Learned At Interop
By Nathan Swartz
May 5, 2008
The Lippis Report
The Interop expo and conference used to be an industry event where you got an industry snapshot and projected major trends for the year to come.

INTEROP 2008
By Bill Hagestad
May 5, 2008
VISI
I've been attending INTEROP 2008 here at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center - the show is an immense collection of business and technology vendors showing off their latest technologies to willing participants and conference attendees -

Sanity check: The top four trends in IT from Interop Las Vegas 2008
By Jason Hiner
May 4, 2008
TechRepublic
One of the top priorities for me at large trade shows like Interop - with 18,000 attendees and 500 vendors - is to try to sniff out big IT trends. I look at the booths that are getting the most traffic, the sessions that appear to be the most crowded, the topics that get the quickest rise out of attendees, and the buzz phrases coming out of the lips of the most people.

25 Somewhat Sinful Scenes From Interop Las Vegas
By N/A
May 4, 2008
ChannelWeb
They don't call Las Vegas sin city for nothing, and Interop is no exception. Vendors and attendees pulled out all the stops to ensure a good time both on and off the show floor at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center this week. Here are some somewhat and not so sinful things we found.

Interop 2008: Plenty of optimism
By Matt Hamblen
May 3, 2008
ComputerWorld
I did some of the field video work at Interop 2008 in Vegas and while shooting near Network World's booth, was asked by my good friend and colleague Keith Shaw to join their own video production to give quick reporter's notebook impressions from the show. You can see it here, but you have to scroll down the list to find my name.

Network Vendors compete for Green Data Center Market at Interop
By N/A
May 3, 2008
Green Data Center Blog
Whenever I talk about Green efforts in the data center, I try talking to the network guys, but the response is usually the power costs for our network are not significant. Well at Interop Green IT has arrived with Nortel pushing the competition.

Best Of The Best: Awards At Interop Honor Tech Innovation
By Art Wittmann
May 3, 2008
InformationWeek
With tech at the center of the last economic downturn, we're all holding our collective breath waiting to see how this one will affect IT budgets and the flow of innovative technology from vendors. The Best of Interop awards are one bellwether of the latter. The 181 entries related to the annual business technology event came in just under last year's 194 but marked an increase over 141 entries in 2006. Contenders included a mix of startups and heavyweights. InformationWeek editors picked winners in three overall categories--Best of Interop, Best Startup, and Best Green Vendor--and in eight tech categories

Interop
By Luke Marrott
May 3, 2008
Marrott Blogspot
Terry has been going to shows for a long time and Interop was one of the ones he told me about quite often and has always said he wanted me to go sometime and see what it's like. I know they are a lot different for him as he has normally been involved in the Interop Labs, iLabs, and sometimes presenting or at least manning a booth to talk about the latest and greatest thing that is going on wherever he is at.

Join the Energy Camp wiki
By N/A
May 2, 2008
The Power Alley
Just got back from a full week @ Interop, which included the full-day Energy Camp on Monday. The growing interest in sustainability and intelligent energy efficiency initiatives at companies big and small across the globe is palpable.

Going Green at Interop
May 2, 2008
The Power Alley
For those of you who weren't able to visit our booth at Interop Vegas this year, I wanted to share with you a decision we made prior to the show. In an effort to live our brand, we decided not to print and distribute the standard set of collateral at the show (thus saving paper, fuel, etc). Instead, we created a small card that included a pointer to our new "Download Zone" on the Verdiem website where we're now housing many of our materials.

InterOp 2008 - Las Vegas, NV
By Dr. Jerry Smith
May 2, 2008
Dr. Jerry Smith blog
Just finished up a presentation on SOA at this year's InterOp 2008 Conference in Las Vegas, NV. Great conference - I highly recommend it next year for those that have not gone in the past. This year it was held at the Mandalay Bay Conference Center, which has to be one of the largest facilities of its kind in the world. Huge! Fun venue, great group of attendees, and really good presentations all around.

At Interop, vendors vie for green IT appeal
By Matt Hamblen
May 2, 2008
ComputerWorld
Green IT was a major theme at Interop this week, as vendors outbid one another on how well their networking gear could lower power consumption to help save the planet.

Interop customers talk up videoconferencing benefits
By Matt Hamblen
May 2, 2008
ComputerWorld
Videoconferencing can be used to slash business travel -- an important consideration as the economy sours and travel costs soar, customers said at Interop this week.

Interop: Hyper-V on fast track for earlier release, Microsoft says
By John Fontana
May 2, 2008
ComputerWorld
Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday confirmed that its Hyper-V server virtualization technology is likely to ship up to a couple months ahead of the previously projected date.

Wi-Fi News from Interop
By Lisa Phifer
May 2, 2008
Wi-Fi Planet
Vendors urged conference attendees to cut the cord this week at Interop Las Vegas, where a new wave of increasingly innovative 802.11n products made their debut.

Reporters' Notebook: Interop Las Vegas 2008
By Network World Staff
May 2, 2008
Australian PC World

Interop: Smaller Businesses Get Some Attention
By Naomi Grossman
May 2, 2008
bMighty
There was lots and lots of focus on larger enterprises at Interop, but, if you looked for it, you could find that many tech companies are thinking more and more about the smaller business.

Report from Interop 2008
By N/A
May 2, 2008
Exacq Blog
We were once again at Interop Las Vegas, which concluded yesterday. This conference is a natural fit for us. Physical security is rapidly moving into the IT market with the advent of IP cameras and IP access control systems, and we saw significantly more interest and involvement from the IT integrators this year in IP video surveillance.

Interop Las Vegas 2008 Roundup
By Sean Michael Kerner
May 2, 2008
InternetNews
Well Interop Las Vegas 2008 has come and gone and I'm still somewhat sane. With the addition of the Software 2008 conference into Interop this year, the volume of sessions was more overwhelming than past Interop events.

Is The Recession Good For SaaS?
By Andrew Conry-Murray
May 2, 2008
InformationWeek
While unwelcome, budget restrictions also can be an opportunity for IT to be creative and try new things. At an Interop panel discussion, Philip Winslow, VP and software analyst at Credit Suisse, pointed to SaaS as one option.

Q&A: McAfee CEO Dave Dewalt
By Stefanie Hoffman
May 2, 2008
ChannelWeb
ChannelWeb sat down with McAfee President and CEO Dave Dewalt at Interop Las Vegas 2008, to hear his thoughts on the economy, McAfee's growth and direction of the company's channel program.

New Splunk Apps Launch at Interop and MMS
By Michael Baum
May 2, 2008
Splunk Blog
This week we were rolling in Las Vegas with Interop at one end of the strip and the Microsoft Management Summit at the other end.

Cisco: Networking Is Hot Again
By Sean Michael Kerner
May 2, 2008
InternetNews
As a simple proof point of the renewed interest in networking Hattar who spoke to InternetNews.com at the Interop trade show, cited the enthusiasm of Interop .

Video Interviews at Interop
By Todd
May 2, 2008
Napera
Andrew Conry-Murray at InformationWeek stopped by at Interop for a video interview to talk about Napera products and NAC in the SME.

InterOp: Networking Looks Hot Again
By Michael J Miller
May 2, 2008
PC Magazine
It's not like networking has gone anywhere, but it certainly feels more interesting than it has in a number of years. At least, that's the impression I got at this year's InterOp conference and exposition in Las Vegas this week.

Interop Keynote Panel on Current Software Trends
By David Link
May 2, 2008
ScienceLogic
The software trends panel preceded Jayshree Ullal's keynote presentation at Interop 2008.

The State of Interop 2008
By Sevcik and Wetzel
May 1, 2008
Network World
Given the uncertain state of the economy, we didn't know what to expect at Interop this spring. The show appears healthy. There is a lot of energy in the crowds, and attendees appear to be paying rapt attention to what is going on at the show. We see lots of attendees filling seats to listen to booth presentations - as if they are here to learn not just enjoy an employer-sponsored junket. For their part exhibitors are more businesslike than in past years, dispensing with gimmicks and diligently trolling for serious leads.

Interop : Are We All Sick?
By Sean Michael Kerner
May 1, 2008
InternetNews
At Interop last year I heard David DeWalt President and CEO of McAfee deliver a keynote -- he was new on the job and he spent the bulk of his time on the negative stats of security (more malware infections, more data leakage etc etc..)

Interop: Cisco, Nokia Solidify Mobile UC Channel
By Andrew R Hickey
May 1, 2008
ChannelWeb
Cisco Systems (NSDQ:CSCO) and Nokia (NYSE:NOK) announced at Interop Las Vegas on Wednesday that more than 95 channel partners have been certified on their combined solution for mobile unified communications.

Faster Wi-Fi raises concerns for some users at Interop
By Matt Hamblen
May 1, 2008
ComputerWorld
April 30, 2008 (Computerworld) LAS VEGAS - Higher-speed Wi-Fi in the form of 802.11n access points and related hardware began rolling out in earnest in the first quarter of this year, and the next-generation technology became an important topic at the Interop trade show this week.

Motorola Trumpets Age Of Mobility At Interop
By Andrew R Hickey
May 1, 2008
ChannelWeb
Motorola (NYSE:MOT) took a bold stance at Interop Las Vegas 2008, telling attendees that it's time to cut the cord and work toward the all-wireless enterprise.

10 Hot Wireless Products From Interop Las Vegas
By N/A
May 1, 2008
ChannelWeb
Wireless networks are to the point where they're no longer just for the big boys and they no longer have to play little brother to the wired network. A host of vendors used Interop Las Vegas 2008 as a platform to show off their latest wireless wares. Here are 10 that caught our eyes and the airwaves.

Interop: Rat's Nests Of Cables No Match For Panduit's Intelligent Patch Panels
By David Berlind
May 1, 2008
InformationWeek
I'm sure competing solutions exist (or maybe not -- you tell me). But this year's Interop marks the first time I've ever seen an intelligent patch panel: one that drives the visibility into your network another layer deeper than the visibility that might normally end with your routers and switches. The offering -- a Best of Interop finalist -- comes from Panduit, and about the only thing I can imagine coming next might be intelligent RJ45 jacks. Actually, after I finished my video interview with Panduit's Mike Pula (below) and sarcastically mentioned that idea, he didn't laugh and said the idea actually solves a problem.

iTrinegy @ Interop Vegas 2008
By N/A
May 1, 2008
Love My Tool
iTrinegy develops sophisticated, yet easy-to-use, network performance technology to help organizations address networked application performance issues, de-risk application roll-outs and optimize network utilization. iTrinegy focuses on two core areas: 1) Application Response Time Monitoring and Network Traffic Analysis and 2) WAN/Network Emulation. iTrinegy Limited is a privately owned company registered in England and Wales . They also operate in the Americas through iTrinegy Inc. In addition, iTrinegy sells its technology through independent partners and resellers.

Is Interop about inter-operational anymore?
By N/A
May 1, 2008
StillSecure
At one time this show was called Networld+Interop. The Interop portion was very much about how different networking technologies inter-operated with each other and how you could use products from disparate vendors to run and manage your network.

Interop start-ups take on network security, management and acceleration
By Denise Dubie
May 1, 2008
Network World
Interop inspires industry veterans and newcomers alike to put on display their most innovative products, hoping to catch the eye of network managers with IT problems to solve.

Interop : Open Source Panel Heckled and Walked Out On
By Sean Michael Kerner
May 1, 2008
InternetNews
It's very rare that I've ever been in a session at any conference session where an attendee heckles the panel and storms out. In a session at Interop on Open Source Risk that's exactly what happened..and it was intense!

Interop: Motorola Predicts End Of Wired Enterprise Networks
By Antone Gonsalves
May 1, 2008
InformationWeek
Kathy Paladino, president of enterprise mobility at Motorola, told attendees of the Interop conference in Las Vegas, that emerging standards, such as 802.11n, will usher in wired-like speed, reliability, and security to wireless networks. Add to that the cost savings, and tossing the wired network becomes a compelling proposition.

Invest in networks despite downturn, Citrix CEO tells Interop
By Tim Greene
May 1, 2008
Network World
Despite a bad economy and restricted IT spending, it's time for businesses to revamp their networks to deliver better-performing applications more economically, the CEO of Citrix Systems told Wednesday's Interop Las Vegas 2008 keynote audience.

Top Stories from Interop 2008
By N/A
May 1, 2008
Network World
Interop is the leading business technology event of the year - and Network World has it covered.

Large Businesses Wrestle With Web 2.0
By Tim Wilson
May 1, 2008
Dark Reading
Interop 2008 -- If you have any doubts as to whether Web 2.0 technology is changing the nature of security in large organizations, we've got a couple of Garys for you.

U.S. Bank suffers Web 2.0 security headaches
By Jon Brodkin
May 1, 2008
Network World
"We always said outside the corporation was untrusted and inside the corporation was trusted territory," U.S. Bank CTO Gary Hodge said in a keynote panel discussion on Web 2.0 security at Interop Las Vegas Wednesday. "Web 2.0 has changed all that. We've had to expose the internal workings of the corporation. There's a whole rash of new devices coming out to enable people to compute when they want to, with the iPhones and smartphones."

Citrix's Mark Templeton Keynotes at Interop Las Vegas '08
By Rajiv Patnam
May 1, 2008
ScienceLogic
Mark Templeton, CEO of Citrix delivered today's opening keynote. His comparison of the best way to build an on demand system is DirecTV...Interesting comparison, stating that they give on demand control to the user, similar to how non IT departments are spending money on Web 2.0 technologies.

Live, from Interop
May 1, 2008
SysManBlog
Well, we're off to a great start, I thought. It was 9:40 am, and I hadn't hooked up with my 9:30 meeting - the first of the first day of this massive conference for networking (in every sense of the word). It didn't bode well. However, that time lapse did give me a chance to briefly thumb through a new book by this morning's keynote speaker, C.K. Prahalad, titled "The New Age of Innovation: Driving Co-Created Value Through Global Networks."

Cisco & Ovum Analyst Discuss Data Center Trends at Interop
By John Murphy
May 1, 2008
Cisco Data Center Blog
Doug Gourlay, senior director, Data Center Solutions at Cisco and Mark Seery, vice president of Switching & Routing at Ovum RHK, discuss data center trends at Interop 2008. These include consolidation, Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), SFP+, Twinax cabling, and new products.

Missing laptop at Interop, not encrypted? What are these people thinking?
By Cisco Subnet
May 1, 2008
Network World
So this morning I am having some coffee in theHotel and a person sitting next to me is telling is friends sitting with him that he had his laptop stolen last night while he was drinking at the bar. I looked over and asked him if he had his entire hard disk encrypted? He said no his company goes not offer that as of yet to its employees, I gave him my card and told him to have his CIO call me and I would help out. Then that got me to think, with everything that Interop shows there were only two vendors who offer this product and they are in the last row, in a far back corner of Interop.

Wave Systems Demos Hardware-based Network Endpoint Validation at Interop
By Raju Shanbhag
May 1, 2008
TMCnet
In an effort to limit data access by using proof-of-encryption for Seagate FDE hard drives, and to extend Juniper Networks' (News - Alert) Unified Access Control (UAC) authentication, Wave Systems is displaying its Network Access Control (NAC) solution this week at theInterop ( News - Alert) show in Las Vegas.

Interop: Intel Unveils 10Gb Network Interface Card
By Antone Gonsalves
May 1, 2008
InformationWeek
The chipmaker launched its 10 Gbit AT Server Adapter Wednesday at the Interop conference in Las Vegas. The NIC supports both 1 GbE and 10 GbE operations, so companies can use the device during a gradual upgrade of a network to the higher speed, the company said.

Live (Again) From Interop: Workshop A Success, But No Takers On Craps Lessons
By Howard Marks
May 1, 2008
InformationWeek
The worst news from Interop is that my fat old body just can't handle the things I did easily 15 years ago when I made a living teaching 5-day NetWare administration seminars. My Disaster Recovery Cookbook workshop went well, with 80 of my now-closest friends spending the day listening to me pontificate on the relative merits of Cemaphore Systems' MailShadow over Double-Take or WANsync. I, however, was a wreck at the end of the day. Even more disappointing, no one took me up on my offer of free craps lessons. The show seems to be recovering from a few years of dot-com bubble hangover, with bigger crowds of both vendors and attendees than I remember from the last two years.

Virtual server sprawl highlights security concerns
By Jon Brodkin
May 1, 2008
InfoWorld
Think server sprawl is bad now? Just wait till you experience virtual server sprawl. When users can clone a virtual machine with the click of a mouse, or save versions of applications and operating systems for later use, you're asking for trouble if IT doesn't maintain tight control, virtualization management vendor Embotics warned in a session at Interop Las Vegas Tuesday. (Look through our slideshow at other products shown at Interop.)

SPOTLIGHT: Interop shows interest in VoIP, virtualization, WAN
By N/A
May 1, 2008
FierceVoIP
A quick on-site survey of 117 network engineers and IT executives at Interop in Vegas found that 24 percent of those surveyed were worried about unified communications monitoring challenges; virtualization placed first at 38 percent, while MPLS came in third at 14 percent.

Interop: The Problem With NAC
By Sean Michael Kerner
May 1, 2008
Enterprise IT Planet
At stake is nothing less than billions of dollars in networking equipment, not to mention the overall security of the enterprise, according to Joel Snyder, the widely regarded NAC expert who ran the NAC Day program today here at the Interop conference.

Startups take on network security, management
By Denise Dubie
May 1, 2008
InfoWorld
Interop inspires industry veterans and newcomers alike to put on display their most innovative products, hoping to catch the eye of network managers with IT problems to solve.

Storage Oddities Emerge at Interop
By Mary Jander and James Rogers
May 1, 2008
Byte and Switch
The Interop trade show in Las Vegas this week has produced a sizable number of interesting storage-related announcements -- a few of which can safely be termed unusual. From removable storage to prestandard FCOE networking, these products point to new directions in storage, even as they leave some of us scratching our heads.

IT managers voice doubt on speed, PoE for 802.11n hardware
By Rik Fairlie
May 1, 2008
ZDNet
Computerworld has an interesting story describing IT managers' doubts about the 802.11n Wi-Fi hardware. In a panel discussion at Interop, the corporate tech guys describe installations that fail to deliver the promised throughput and discuss doubts on the new hardware's ability to deliver Power over Ethernet (PoE).

Cloud computing hysteria paralyzed by bolt of reality
By Austin Modine
May 1, 2008
The Register
We've seen more than enough folks all atwitter and wetting their shorts over cloud computing at Interop 2008 Las Vegas. So it was a bit of a surprise to catch a panel at the show with Google and Amazon reps discussing what keeps businesses from embracing the technology.

Fulcrum builds network software development alliance
By Jeff Caruso
May 1, 2008
Network World
A lot of the hottest Ethernet news these days seems to be driven by the component vendors, the makers of the silicon that goes into the switches we buy. This week at Interop Las Vegas 2008, Fulcrum Microsystems gathered several vendors and announced an alliance to develop software for routing switches.

Xirrus gets cocky about 802.11n and tells IT pros to "Ditch the switch"
By Jason Hiner
May 1, 2008
TechRepublic
At Interop Las Vegas 2008, Xirrus tried to convince IT pros that it was time to ditch their switches and replace them with the Xirrus 802.11n wireless arrays.

Whither Mobile Applications?
By Craig Mathias
May 1, 2008
Network World
I'm at INTEROP in Las Vegas this week, where I Chair the wireless and mobile track, and my session at the conference was entitled "Platforms for Mobile Applications". This session was initially intended to look at alternatives for mobile operating systems, and there are a huge number of options here. But the real question we attempted to answer was the form or style that mobile computing will take going forward.

7 dirty secrets of the security industry
By Tim Greene
May 1, 2008
Network World
Corporate IT executives need to beware the seven dirty secrets of the security industry that can undermine the safety of business networks, a security expert told attendees at Interop Las Vegas.

8 Dirty Secrets Of The Security Industry
By Alexander Wolfe
May 1, 2008
InformationWeek
An IBM (NYSE: IBM) security expert ripped the scab off of the dirty little secrets of the security industry, in a highly entertaining presentation Wednesday at Interop. Joshua Corman, principal security analyst at IBM Internet Security Systems, highlighted the gaping divide between what customers think they're buying (safety) versus what security vendors are most intent on selling (stuff that'll bring in the bucks). Here, in condensed form, is his list.

Start-up adds standard PCs to storage pools
By Jon Brodkin
May 1, 2008
Linux World
Based in Sudbury, Mass., Kapsean was founded four years ago but just came out of stealth mode at CES in January and exhibited at Interop Las Vegas this week. The start-up is taking beta applications now and is planning a general release for early in the third quarter, Gaudet said. Pricing will start at around $50 per seat, he said.

With SOA and Web 2.0 apps, developers and network pros need to align their work
By Shamus McGillicuddy
May 1, 2008
SearchNetworking
At Interop 2008, a panel of experts warned networking pros that infrastructure and application teams need to collaborate early and often to ensure that applications built on SOA and Web 2.0 principles perform as expected.

Cisco loses $2M order to ruthless Nortel energy efficiency calculator
By Brad Reese
May 1, 2008
Network World
"I'm here at Interop and customers are getting the facts (verified by independent third parties) on Green networking (50% less energy consumption), on performance (20x better), on reliability (7x the resilience) and on TCO (50% reduction) of our networking solutions," blogs Nortel Enterprise Director - Tony Rybczynski.

Software Lets Enterprises Encrypt, Restrict Use of CD/DVD Media
By Tim Wilson
May 1, 2008
Dark Reading
Interop 2008 -- How do you keep users from walking out of the company with sensitive data on a CD -- or coming in with a malware-infected DVD?

Citrix Rethinks Data Center
By Joe Hernick
May 1, 2008
InformationWeek
And the re-branding continues - today at InterOp Citrix offered up its plans to outfit your data center as an end-to-end 'Delivery Center,' with full details to be revealed at... Synergy. All kidding aside, I wish I could be in Houston at the end of May.

A little bit of Interop from the comfort of your desktop
By Kerry Adorno
May 1, 2008
Novell blog
This week the Interop conference is happening in Las Vegas and Novell is at the show. If you weren't able to make it to Vegas, Network World has done some video interviews that help to provide a taste of the event and the discussions that are happening here. Stephen Pollack, CEO of PlateSpin, which was recently acquired by Novell, sat down with Network World's Beth Schultz to discuss the synergies between Novell and PlateSpin and where virtualization management is heading. Check it out, here.

INTEROP: VoIP Power to the People
By Tara Seals
May 1, 2008
Xchange
For instance, ADTRAN Inc. announced at this week's INTEROP expo in Las Vegas that it would open up more tiers within its channel program to sell VoIP, is launching an IP PBX and, it's adding reasonably priced IP phones to its lineup. Meanwhile, IP PBX juggernaut Avaya Inc. was talking up the "democratization" of VoIP and UC, and announced that it's added speech recognition to its UC package. LifeSize Communications, known for its high-end video immersion systems, is attacking the smaller opportunities via an under-$5,000 (OK, it's $4,999, but still) combo of the "Focus" two-microphone array camera plus "Express" HD video conferencing system.

Helping to Deliver at Interop, One Flashing Light at a Time!
By Timothy May
May 1, 2008
ScienceLogic
The problem was how to collect and real-time graph the aggregate inbound and outbound bandwidth from 4 Enterasys core network routers (Enterasys XSR 3250 Routers) on 42" & 52" flat screens used in the NOC at Interop Las Vegas.

Interop Las Vegas -- 10 Gigabit Ethernet Advances
By Cameron Sturdevant
May 1, 2008
eWeek
There are two big 10 Gigabit Ethernet "drops" coming out of Interop (held in Las Vegas, April 2008.) The first is price and the second is power. I talked with switch maker Arastra, which announced general availability of its 24- and 48-port 10G Ethernet switches in the approximately $400 per port price range.

Interop: Virtualization Is Top Monitoring Challenge, Survey Shows
By Antone Gonsalves
May 1, 2008
InformationWeek
Virtualization ranked as the top monitoring challenge among attendees of the Interop conference in Las Vegas, a survey showed.

Best of Interop 2008 Winners List
By N/A
May 1, 2008
Computer Technology Review
At the Best of Interop Awards ceremony, the following companies and their products were recognized: The 2008 Best of Interop Grand Prize Winner: Palo Alto Networks - The PA-4000 is a firewall that can identify and monitor traffic from more than 600 applications, enabling IT to allow, block, or restrict access to those applications across an enterprise network. According to the judges, "While the PA-4000 is still a new product on the market, we believe its potential to improve the productivity of the business and the day-to-day behavior of end users is truly great."

Report from Interop: It's all about virtualization, baby!
By Alan Zeichick
May 1, 2008
SD Times
Interop is one of the big, big, big events for IT folks. While its focus is nominally on LANs and WANs, you can find just about anything here at Interop.

Nexus 7000 Interop 2008 Winner Best of Award for Infrastructure
By Tugba Goskel
May 1, 2008
Cisco Data Center Blog
Becky Marques discusses the Cisco Nexus 7000 with Lynne Kingsbury on the Interop floor. The Nexus 7000 is the first Data Center class switch in the Nexus portfolio offering transport flexibility, operational continuity and infrastructure scalability.

Interop: IronPort's S-Series Blocks Suspicious Content At The Web Page Component Level
By David Berlind
May 1, 2008
InformationWeek
Here at Interop 2008 in Las Vegas, IronPort (a division of Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO)) is showing off its latest security solutions -- the S650 and the S350 Web Security Appliances. The S-Series was a finalist in this year's Best of Interop competition. In the new security appliance, the company leverages its SenderBase anti-spam reputation management technology to determine what parts of a Web page (if any) to let through to users' browsers. In the video below, IronPort product manager Samantha Madrid tells me more about the S-Series.

Interop's WLAN Architecture Debate
By Andrew Garcia
May 1, 2008
eWeek
Wednesday at the Interop conference in Las Vegas, I sat in on a pretty fascinating panel discussion, called "The Great WLAN Architectural Debate" which brought together representatives from five enterprise-grade WLAN companies - ostensibly to compare and contrast their technology to their competitors, particularly in regards to 802.11n.

Intel puts another foot into 10GbE
By Austin Modine
May 1, 2008
The Register
With a sweep of the Interop 2008 Las Vegas show floor, it's clear that vendors are confident that 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology is moving beyond the early adoption phase and into more storage networks and data centers.

Microsoft embraces and extends server promiscuity
By Drew Cullen
May 1, 2008
The Register
A decidedly downbeat Bob Muglia took centre stage at Interop this afternoon to preach the gospel of interoperability according to Microsoft.

Interop Insight: Why Users Hate IT
By Fredric Paul
May 1, 2008
bMighty
So I made a point of stopping by an Interop UnConference interactive session on whether IT should support the iPhone. It was some 20 IT professionals from all size companies sitting around downing beers and discussing the options. The leader of the discssion came down hard on the side of choosing one device/platform to support and locking everything else out of the network.

9 Hot Security Products At Interop Las Vegas
By N/A
May 1, 2008
ChannelWeb
Say this 10 times fast. SonicWall's Re-assembly Free Deep Packet Inspection. The new DPI offering provides IT personnel with even more visibility into inbound and outbound network content without compromising security or impeding performance. The new inspection engine is part of the company's overall Unified Threat Management strategy, incorporating a multi-layered security approach that addresses increasingly sophisticated and targeted security threats. The engine offers a unique combination of thorough insight and accelerated speed which makes it specifically suited to meet the bandwidth demands of Web 2.0.

Interop Las Vegas: No more silos
By David DeWalt
May 1, 2008
McAfee
It is uncanny how many familiar faces I saw as I roamed the show floor at Interop on Wednesday.

BlueCat Proteus 2.5 IP Address Management
By Fritz Nelson
May 1, 2008
InformationWeek
We've been covering BlueCat's fantastic management appliances for years, and its Proteus IP Address Management has always fared well in some of our product comparisons. At this year's Interop, BlueCat announced version 2.5.

Interop: Applications And Networks Need to Unite
By Sean Michael Kerner
May 1, 2008
InternetNews
Before a capacity crowd at Interop, a panel of experts from Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR) and Strangeloop Networks disagreed on the future of application delivery.

Catch the buzz - Cisco, Avocent and Nemertes discuss branch application managment trends at Interop
By Tugba Goskel
May 1, 2008
Cisco Data Center Blog
Cisco's Shashi Kiran and Rahul Tripathi discuss branch management trends and the ISR-based Application eXtension Platform (AXP) with Mark Harris, VP Marketing of Avocent, and Andreas Antonopolous, SVP and Founding Partner of Nemertes Research. Learn how to lower Total cost of Ownership in a branch environment with remote management solutions.

Take a demo tour of new Empowered Branch Innovations at Interop 2008
By Tugba Goskel
May 1, 2008
Cisco Data Center Blog
Cisco's Shashi Kiran and Tugba Goksel do a walkthrough of the new innovations including the Cafe Cisco experience , Video Surveillance, Application Extension Platform (AXP), Unified Communications, Catalyst 2960 switches with Miercom Green certification and WAN optimization.

Interop: Cisco Switches First to Receive "Certified Green" Designation from Miercom
By Tugba Goskel
May 1, 2008
Cisco Data Center Blog
Cisco's Berna Devrim and Miercom's Robert Smithers discuss Miercom's new "Certified Green" product evaluation program, and review how switches from Cisco are the first products to receive the new certification.

Interop: The Video Ready Campus: Transforming Business Collaboration
By Tugba Goskel
May 1, 2008
Cisco Data Center Blog
Cisco's Rob Sloan introduces the third installment of the Campus Communications Fabric (CCF). As Cisco's vision for the enterprise campus LAN, CCF provides an evolutionary approach to deploying video applications.

Experience the Cisco Cafe environment at Interop 2008
By Tugba Goskel
May 1, 2008
Cisco Data Center Blog
Cisco's Shashi Kiran and Tugba Goksel discuss the concept of the Empowered Branch over a cup of coffee and how it enhances the Customer exprerience through innovative use of technology powered by the Integrated Services Router, the Catalyst ePoE switches and the branch portfolio.

Interop 2008: The Essence of Collaborative Technologies
By Tugba Goskel
May 1, 2008
Cisco Data Center Blog
At Interop 2008, Johna Till Johnson, senior founding partner of Nemertes Research talks about top challenges that enterprises face in deploying collaborative technologies and provides solutions and best practices. Learn the benefits that collaborative technologies bring.

Catch the Buzz of Interop '08
By Christine Pratt
May 1, 2008
Cisco Data Center Blog
Interop Las Vegas 2008 kicks off this week. We wanted to know what is top of mind for leading analysts. Marie Hattar, marketing VP at Cisco, talks with Johna Till Johnson, senior founding partner of Nemertes Research, about the latest trends and innovations that will be unveiled this week. Watch the video!

Interop 2008 is in the Bag!
By N/A
May 1, 2008
The Tech Stop
Interop Las Vegas 2008 is over... A few classes and workshops remain, but for the most part the volunteer army of engineers, technicians and admins that form the backbone of Interop have departed for their uberGeek point of origin. Only a handful of uberGeek faithful remain in the NOC to pull the plugs and store the gear of the remaining network once the last class finishes.

Interop : What Users Want
By Sean Michael Kerner
May 1, 2008
Internetnews
At a show as big as Interop there are always a lot of different technologies on display, some of them being more interesting than others.

It Ain't Over Yet in the WAN Optimization Market
By Sevcik and Wetzel
May 1, 2008
Network World
Some would have us believe that the die is cast in the WAN optimization market - that the winners have been chosen, and there are no up and comers. After talking to as many vendors as we could fit into two days at Interop, we beg differ. There are some very interesting strategies and plans in the works that we predict will change the current market dynamics.

Interop Las Vegas Update: 6 Trends to Watch
By The VAR Guy
April 30, 2008
The VAR Guy
Last week, The VAR Guy outlined six trends he expected to generate some buzz at this week's Interop conference in Las Vegas. Now that the show is in full swing, let's take another look at those six trends to see how they're shaping up.

Interop 2008 Winner Best of Award for Infrastructure
By John Murphy
April 30, 2008
Cisco Data Center Blog
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series is the recipient of Interop 2008 Product of the Year. It is the first Data Center class switch in the Nexus portfolio offering transport flexibility, operational continuity and infrastructure scalability.

Award Session Winners of the Best of Interop 2008
By N/A
April 30, 2008
Remove the Labels
LAS VEGAS, USA (AVING Special Report on 'Interop Las Vegas 2008′) - Winners of the Best of Interop 2008 have been announced on April 29, 2008 at the Best of Interop Award ceremony.

Guest blog by Joel Hackney from Interop
By Bo Gowan
April 30, 2008
Nortel blog
This week Nortel and the industry's focus turn to Interop in Las Vegas. Joel Hackney, Nortel's president of Enterprise Solutions, is at the show this week talking to customers, partners and media. Since Joel took the reigns of Nortel's enterprise business last year, he has talked to customers around the world about their networking needs. Joel took some time out from his busy Interop schedule to tell us what he's hearing from them. Below is his guest blog.

Vidyo Named Best Startup Of Interop
By John Foley
April 30, 2008
InformationWeek
Vidyo, which began shipping its videoconferencing-over-IP system in March, has just won the startup category in this year's Best Of Interop competition. Vidyo promises to make low-cost, high-quality videoconferencing an option for more companies.

Roundup: Interop Las Vegas 2008
By Larry Dignan
April 30, 2008
ZDNet
The big takeaway from the product fiesta that is Interop Las Vegas 2008 is that 10 GB Ethernet has finally arrived.

Interop: Broadcom Says 40 Gbps Ethernet Coming Soon
By Antone Gonsalves
April 30, 2008
InformationWeek
Broadcom (NSDQ: BRCM) on Tuesday said the IEEE group working on 40-Gbps Ethernet is likely to settle on a standard by midyear, with final approval of the technology by the international standards body expected by early 2010.

Interop Vegas, Land of the Inexpensive and Powerful
By Allan Leinwand
April 30, 2008
Gigaom
I'm here in Las Vegas for the annual Interop show for IT professionals, and I'm finding it to be far livelier - and better attended - than I had expected it would be. In fact, I may need to rethink my belief that Web 2.0 has killed the networking engineer, as hordes of my compatriots are here, engaging in lively hallway discussions and even attending an Unconference.

Mellanox takes Best of Interop award for ConnectX EN 10 GbE adapter
By Bridget Botelho
April 30, 2008
SearchDataCenter
One Tuesday, April 29, at the Interop 2008 conference in Las Vegas, Mellanox Technologies Ltd. was granted the Best of Interop award in the Data Center and Storage category for its ConnectX EN 10 gigabit Ethernet (GbE) server and storage I/O adapter with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE).

Thoughts from Interop & winning Best of Interop
By Mark Weiner
April 30, 2008
Cisco Data Center Blog
It's great to see Interop continue to rebuild intensity and attendee size from the boom to bust days and back. The floor certainly seems busy, as do many of the sessions we've attended and spoken at.

Switching, virtualization, and more at Interop
By Jon Oltsik
April 30, 2008
CNET
Attendance is down at this year's Interop business tech conference. I've heard about companies issuing travel bans on employees and vendors pulling out at the last minute due to budget constraints.

Interop: How Comcast, Verizon Fight Spam
By Sean Michael Kerner
April 30, 2008
InternetNews
In a session at the Interop conference here on how to keep track of the bad guys, executives from Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) and Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) detailed some of the issues they see in terms of bad traffic and what they are doing about it.

Interop: Citrix To Help Build The 'Delivery Center'
By Antone Gonsalves
April 30, 2008
InformationWeek
Mark Templeton, chief executive of Citrix, told attendees at the Interop conference in Las Vegas that the company plans to deliver the complete set of necessary components later this quarter. Details of the new technology will be discussed at Citrix's Synergy 2008 user group May 20 in Houston.

Interop: Oracle Looks Beyond ERP
By Paul McDougall
April 30, 2008
InformationWeek
"Our customers don't see a lot of newness in ERP," Jesper Andersen, Oracle's senior VP for application development, said Wednesday at the Interop conference in Las Vegas. "They want to spend more on the edges, on commercial, off-the-shelf technology, when they can."

Best Of Interop 2008
By Fritz Nelson
April 30, 2008
InformationWeek
Each year Interop presents its "best of show" awards. This year featured several products from Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) (some developed in-house, some acquired), and the usual lineup of upstarts (Palo Alto Networks, Mellanox Technologies, Splunk, Spigit). Cisco managed its share of awards, most notably for its Nexus 7000 data center switch, but the upstarts also had their turn.

Interop: Citrix CEO Calls On Industry To "Rethink" IT Model
By Stefanie Hoffman
April 30, 2008
ChannelWeb
Kicking off the second day of Interop Las Vegas 2008, Mark Templeton, president and CEO of Citrix (NSDQ:CTXS), called on individuals to "take computing into their own hands" by restructuring their IT models to meet the demands of an increasingly service oriented society.

From Interop: Securing Wi-Fi must be priority
By Dan Kaplan
April 30, 2008
SC Magazine
As the use of Wi-Fi by businesses becomes more pervasive, IT departments must rethink their security strategy, a panel said Tuesday at the Interop conference in Las Vegas.

Cloudy picture for cloud computing
By Neal Weinberg
April 30, 2008
InfoWorld
Efforts by such Web heavyweights as Amazon and Google to entice companies into tapping into the power of their datacenters are being slowed by a number of factors, according to Interop panelists.

Is It Time to Rethink IT's Priorities?
By Sean Michael Kerner
April 30, 2008
Internetnews
Citrix President and CEO Mark Templeton is not bullish on the current state of the economy, especially for IT. When taking the keynote stage here at Interop, he had a very stark message for attendees: Things are not going well for IT and dramatic change is necessary.

Meeting the Challenge of 10GbE
By Sean Michael Kerner
April 30, 2008
Internetnews
The IT world is moving to 10GbE as a way to boost the speed of the network. As that networking speed increases however there may be new challenges and new opportunities which is what a panel of experts debated at an Interop panel including Citrix, Cisco, Dell, VMware and Solarflare.

'NAC 2.0' Takes Shape Under Networking Giants
By Sean Michael Kerner
April 29, 2008
InternetNews
A slew of the big names in networking are aiming to push the hot technology of network access control (NAC) beyond its proprietary beginnings, incorporating a broader base of vendor frameworks and implementations.

Riding Out The Slowdown, Speeding Up Networks
By Sean Michael Kerner
April 29, 2008
InternetNews
Networks can provide competitive and productivity advantages that are even more important in lean times than in boom times. It's those advantages that vendors of all sizes and shapes will be promoting at Interop in Las Vegas as it kicks off the week of April 28th.

PacketTrap Network Management Software at Interop
By N/A
April 29, 2008
The Packet Scoop
We're going to Interop tomorrow. As you know, the trip to Interop is the IT networking equivalent of a pilgrimage to Mecca. It's a place for vendors, journalists, and industry analysts to show off their latest wares to the IT community. It's a place to be seen and a place to put your best foot foreword.

Fork Lift Takes Out Part of McAfee's Booth at Interop 2008
By Jeremy McNamara
April 29, 2008
VoIP, Asterisk and OpenSER: News, Information and Tutorials
Like many others, I have been in Las Vegas preparing for the Interop 2008 Conference and Expo.

Interop: nSolutions Launches NOVA Change And Configuration Management Appliance
By Paul McDougall
April 29, 2008
InformationWeek
Infrastructure management vendor nSolutions on Monday at Interop launched a change management appliance designed to help users more easily make modifications to their IT environments without disrupting critical operations.

Interop: RMI Launches Low-End Processor For Network Appliances
By Antone Gonsalves
April 29, 2008
InformationWeek
The XLS 208, launched at the Interop conference in Las Vegas, is a step up from the company's lowest performing chip, the single-core XLS 204. While the latter would be optimal for network appliances serving 10 to 15 users, the XLS 208 can handle from 25 to 35 users, company executives said. For more robust performance, the next progression in the product line would be the XLS 400 series.

Netgear Storms Interop With New Wares
By N/A
April 29, 2008
ChannelWeb
Netgear came out of its corner swinging at Interop Las Vegas 2008, releasing five new products it says will not only cement its place in the SMB market, but will also help it climb higher up the food chain into companies that are starting to outgrow their true small business status.

Interop: Vendors tackle Wi-Fi troubles
By Antone Gonsalves
April 29, 2008
EETimes
Vendors at Interop Las Vegas 2008 are taking aim at the power-consumption problem faced by organizations deploying high-speed 802.11n wireless LANs.

Netgear gets a crush on SMBs at Interop
By Austin Modine
April 29, 2008
The Register
The security guards aren't letting hacks onto the show floor of Interop 2008 in Las Vegas, but Netgear is already primed for action.

Interop: Lenovo, LANDesk Develop Client Management Console
By Antone Gonsalves
April 29, 2008
InformationWeek
The ThinkManagement Console, launched at the Interop conference in Las Vegas, enables companies to centralize access to LANDesk management, inventory tracking, and reporting software for all client hardware, including non-Lenovo systems. Companies with mixed environments, however, would have to pay a license fee to cover the third-party systems.

Interop: The $3 Billion Electric Bill
By Andrew Conry-Murray
April 29, 2008
InformationWeek
As Energy Camp kicks off here at Interop, I thought it would be good to find some baseline numbers to help frame the discussion of power consumption by IT operations.

Interop Presents Unconference
By Louis DiMeglio
April 29, 2008
ScienceLogic
This year at Interop, there will be even more time for geek fellowship and conversation with a side of beer. Unconference is the brainchild of Alistair Croll, a well-known entrepreneur, IT professional, and blogger. Unconference is designed to let users, experts and vendors come together in a casual environment to talk about how the industry is changing. We're excited to be a part of the Grid, On-demand and Virtualization session: "Monitoring What You Can't Touch". I'll be providing expert advice, case studies and fun anecdotes on what we have seen companies need, want, and achieve with monitoring solutions that use virtualization.

Author kicks off Interop: 'IT does matter'
By Tim Greene
April 29, 2008
IDG News Service
Interop Las Vegas kicked off Tuesday with a lecture from a college professor as the keynote address, a stark contrast to the industry luminaries who filled that slot in the past.

Interop: Prof. Prahalad Says IT Matters More Than Ever
By Paul McDougall
April 29, 2008
InformationWeek
University of Michigan Professor Prahalad, delivering a keynote Tuesday at Interop, said a new business paradigm has emerged in which the centralized firm gives way to loosely federated, global business networks that can pull together resources on the fly to profitably deliver products customized for a market of one.

Interop: Innovation Involves Resilience, Focus
By N/A
April 29, 2008
InternetNews
A century ago, Henry Ford transformed America with his automobile production line in Michigan. Today, Professor C.K. Prahalad, Distinguished Professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, delivered a keynote at the Interop trade show detailing a very different world than the one Henry Ford knew.

Interop: SaaS Is A Key Driver Behind Upswing In Innovation
By Antone Gonsalves
April 29, 2008
InformationWeek
Abhijit Dubey, associate principal for McKinsey, told attendees at the Interop conference in Las Vegas that a survey of IT buyers found that 62% believed the industry was at the beginning of the innovation cycle. Driving that upbeat observation was the development of SaaS, which IT managers ranked as the most important item for their businesses this year.

Interop for Cisco professionals
By Cisco Subnet
April 29, 2008
Network World
Cisco professionals will be running around like Peter Packet trying to see and do all the Cisco-related stuff at Interop this week. Note the Tuesday keynote, April 29, 3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. It features Jayshree V. Ullal, senior vice president, Cisco's Data Center, Switching and Services Group. Also check out the session on Thursday, May 1, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. called "The future of application delivery." This is a panel that will include Cisco and a couple of its competitors in the WAN acceleration market. You might also want to check out the session on Thursday, May 1, 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. called "Open source networking: An insanely smart idea?" It features open source upstart Vyatta.

Interop : Using Microsoft to Monitor Unix and Linux
By Sean Michael Kerner
April 29, 2008
InternetNews
I'm sitting in the main keynote hall at Interop where Microsoft's Bob Muglia (Sr VP server and tools) and Barry Shilmover (Senior Program Manger System Center Cross Platform) just finished the first part of the afternoon keynote session. Guess what?

Interop News: Word from the show floor
By Curtis Franklin
April 29, 2008
InfoWorld
So the show is open, the booths are built, and the crowds have descended on the exhibitors. My first impression: Wow. If trade show attendance is any indication of an industry's heath, then data networking is heading toward a boom. I haven't seen a computer-industry trade show floor look this good in at least six years. People are talking purchases, exhibitors are showing lots of new products, and everyone seems to be in a good mood (as opposed to the the grim, depressed feeling that ruled for a while). Some quick observations:

Interop: Web 2.0 Evolution Opens Door For Serious Threats
By Stefanie Hoffman
April 29, 2008
ChannelWeb
In a speech given Tuesday at the Interop Conference 2008, Kenneth Rutsky, VP of product marketing for Secure Computing, underscored that the new and increasingly dangerous Web 2.0 threats that have emerged will require businesses and IT professionals alike to significantly enhance security technologies and leave traditional blacklisting models in the dust.

Netgear announces new switches, access point at Interop
By Rik Fairlie
April 29, 2008
ZDNet
Netgear launched at Interop a handful of new switches that introduce static routing capabilities to the company's SMB product line. It also unveiled an 802.11n dual-band access point that brings in support for the 5GHz spectrum.

Interop: Adena Health Reaps Benefits Of Video-Based Telemedicine
By Antone Gonsalves
April 29, 2008
InformationWeek
The medical center took part Tuesday in a Cisco Systems (NSDQ: CSCO)-sponsored roundtable discussing the benefits of bringing video to a corporate IP network. The event was held at the Interop conference in Las Vegas.

Barracuda Launches E-Mail Archive Product
By Andrew Conry-Murray
April 29, 2008
InformationWeek
Barracuda Networks, best known for its anti-spam products, announced two mail archiving products for enterprises Tuesday at Interop. Aimed at customers of up to 6,000 employees, the archives improve e-mail management by pulling older mail off production servers, which improves performance and also makes backups smaller.

Webroot to Launch Enterprise Web Filtering Service
By Tim Wilson
April 29, 2008
Dark Reading
Interop 2008 -- If you're having trouble getting users to follow your company's Web surfing policies, maybe it's time to do something radical: Hand the problem to somebody else.

Solera Intros DeepSee Search Engine
By Shamila Janakiraman
April 29, 2008
TMCnet
Solera technology allows captured traffic to be written on a scalable disk-based cache system and presented in PCAP formats as a virtual network interface or as regenerated network traffic. Applications can then perform their analysis with complete visibility into all network traffic without affecting the production network''s performance. Solera will be demonstrating DeepSee atInterop ( News - Alert) underway in Las Vegas.

IT pros and biz tech vendors converge at Interop Las Vegas this week
By Jason Hiner
April 29, 2008
Tech Republic
I''ll be at Interop Las Vegas 2008 this week along with about 18,000 other professionals in the IT industry. This show keeps getting bigger every year. This year, there will be about 500 vendors exhibiting their products â€" which is up from about 450 in 2007 and 350 in 2006.

Interop-eration
By Brian Boyko
April 29, 2008
Network Performance Daily
Right now, some of NetQoS''s best and brightest are at the Interop conference in Las Vegas. (Our booth number is 1853, and that should be easy to remember â€" it''s the same year the Crimean War started.)

123Together Exhibits at Interop 2008
By N/A
April 29, 2008
WHIR
Microsoft Exchange hosting provider 123Together (123together.com), a division of mindSHIFT Technologies (mindshift.com), announced on Tuesday that it is exhibiting at Interop Las Vegas, 2008 (interop.com) from April 29 to May 1.

Interop 2008 is happening this week, and Network World has the networking industry event covered from many different angles.
By Jeff Caruso
April 29, 2008
Network World
Interop 2008 is happening this week, and Network World has the networking industry event covered from many different angles.

Who's your caddy?
By N/A
April 29, 2008
Network World
BlueCat Networks is hoping to drive the point home that now is the time for enterprise companies to upgrade their IP address management systems by equipping its Interop booth with a simulated golf driving game and by having, er, caddies on hand to help out show attendees improve their game. Booth workers of the female persuasion are donning a common uniform that is one part Catholic schoolgirl and one part old-time golfer. With argyle sweaters and socks, and mini-skirts asking passers-by "Who's your caddy?" BlueCat will draw Interop attendees to its display, but it's unclear if the vendor's message about automating IP address management with its Proteus appliances will be why they remember the vendor.

Interop vendors tout scalability
By Ann Bednarz
April 29, 2008
Network World
Speed and scalability are key attributes that WAN optimization and application acceleration vendors are touting at the Interop trade show and conference, going on this week in Las Vegas. A10 Networks, Citrix Systems and F5 Networks are among vendors displaying their latest wares at the show, and each is focused on satisfying the performance needs of today's most demanding enterprise data centers.

Netgear Launches New Softswitches for SMB
By N/A
April 29, 2008
VoIP News
Netgear is displaying the solutions in booth 1343 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, April 29 to May 1, 2008.

New System to Measure "Greenness" Unveiled at Interop
By Michael Dinan
April 29, 2008
TMCnet
Officials at Ixia (News - Alert) say their so-called "PoC IxGreen" solution is designed to help data center managers measure how much power their networks are using. The new system is being unveiled atInterop ( News - Alert) Las Vegas by Ixia, a public company that provides IP performance test systems in 30 countries.

Interop: A Glimpse at the 802.11n Future
By Samuel Dean
April 29, 2008
Web Worker Daily
In a similar vein to a post I put recently titled The Time is Now to Go to 802.11n several 802.11n-related inititiatives are taking shape this week that should be of interest to web workers. Whether your home Wi-Fi network is already 802.11n-based or not, quite a few new offerings are being shown at the Las Vegas Interop show.

SecurityMetrics Presents Data Security 'Live Hack' Demos at Interop
By Mae Kowalke
April 29, 2008
TMCnet
That's the question SecurityMetrics is posing this week at the Interop (News - Alert) show in Las Vegas to companies in charge of safeguarding consumer data. To bring home the necessity of robust security, the company is providing fifteen-minute demos that shows how hacks into consumer data repositories work, and how to prevent them.

Interop network goes all-out virtual
By Jon Brodkin
April 29, 2008
Network World
The monster network that powers the Interop Las Vegas show has joined the virtual age. For the first time, network engineers who build the world's largest temporary network and dismantle it a week later are going with an almost totally virtualized server environment, according to network architect Geoff Horne.

Interop: When Keynotes Go Bad
By Michael Kerner
April 29, 2008
InternetNews
I'm sitting in the final afternoon keynote now where Cisco's Jayshree V. Ullal Senior Vice President, Data Center, Switching and Services Group is speaking. Ullal is responsible for $10 billion a year in Cisco revenues across the Catalyst and Nexus product line.

Interop Las Vegas: It's a Jungle Out Here
By James Maguire
April 29, 2008
Datamation
I just arrived at the Interop trade show in Las Vegas and the event is huge. Interop Las Vegas has a clear message: the technology industry is alive and well. Economic downturn? What economic downturn?

In the Know at Interop 2008
By N/A
April 29, 2008
Cisco Data Center Blog
Jayshree Ullal, Senior Vice President, Data Center, Switching and Security Technology Group, Cisco, shares key customer insights from Interop 2008

Listen to the Interrop keynote, get a free book
By N/A
April 29, 2008
Network World
C.K. Prahalad delivered the keynote at Interop today. Never heard of him? He's the #1 most influential management thinker in the world, according to the Times of London.

From the Interop 2008 show floor
By Todd
April 29, 2008
Napera
It may not be the halcyon days of the late 90's when Interop took over the massive Las Vegas Convention Center, but judging from the mood at today's show the buzz is definitely back at Interop!

Interop: 5 Questions For Cisco's Jayshree Ullal
By Andrew R Hickey
April 29, 2008
ChannelWeb
Shortly before her keynote presentation at Interop Las Vegas 2008, ChannelWeb caught up with Jayshree Ullal, Cisco's senior vice president of data center, switching and services. Ullal talked about how customers and solution providers can prepare data centers for the new influx of sophisticated applications, like video, and discussed how over the past couple of years Cisco has "gone from wanna be to we're here to be" in the data center.

Interop Video: Management Guru With A Heart Of Globe
By Alexander Wolfe
April 29, 2008
InformationWeek
Tuesday's morning keynote at the killer Interop conference was given by C.K. Prahalad, a business professor who's not only got a keen sense of how technology impacts the globalized marketplace, but a social conscience and a sense of humanity, too. Who knew such a powerful combo was even possible?

Interop: Palo Alto Networks' Firewall Identifies App Traffic On Content, Not Ports
By David Berlind
April 29, 2008
InformationWeek
You've programmed your firewall to block the ports that some unwanted app is using and that app turns up on your net again. Net-enabled applications don't tie themselves down to one port the way the Web (HTTP, port 80) and other apps do. After some firewall shuts their ports down, they find another port. Using traffic profiles instead of ports to identify more than 600 applications, not only did Palo Alto Networks' series win InformationWeek's Best of Interop in the security category, it took the grand prize as well. In the video below, Palo Alto's Lee Klarich walks me through some of the firewall's innovations.

Interop: Alcatel-Lucent Claims APIs And Scalability Are Comm Server's Key Differentiators
By David Berlind
April 29, 2008
InformationWeek
Here at Interop in Las Vegas, a handful of exhibitors who are also Best of Interop Finalists are waiting to find out if Information Week's editors have singled them out as winners or not. One of them is Alcatel (NYSE: ALU)-Lucent who is here showing off its XML API-enabled Omnitouch Advanced Communications Server (ACS). Via those APIs, director of product management Peter Anderholm (pictured below left) claims that enterprises can, for collaborative purposes, easily integrate point-and-click voice conferencing into any application. I caught Peter on the show floor for a video interview.

Networked Video Is a Surprise Focus at Interop
By Oliver Rist
April 29, 2008
PC Magazine
Network management, wireless and 10 Gig E switching are technologies we expect to see showcased at Interop, but this year there's a surprising concentration on networked video as well. While voice over IP is one of the network's hottest applications for the last two years, video streaming and video conferencing have always taken a back seat because of seemingly insurmountable quality problems.

Interop: Microsoft Sees 200,000 Protocol Downloads
By Paul McDougall
April 29, 2008
InformationWeek
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has seen more than 200,000 downloads of technical documents that partners and rivals need to make their products interoperable with Redmond-made software since it posted the information in February, Microsoft senior VP Bob Muglia said Tuesday at the Interop conference in Las Vegas.

Hello from Interop 2008!!!
By Josh Stephens
April 29, 2008
Thwack
Well, the first day of InterOp 2008 is behind us and what a day it was. A few thousand of you came by the booth today for free software, t-shirts, and to learn more about our software. Heck, we even had free beer from 3:00 to 5:00 when the show closed!!!

From Interop: Be mindful of vendors' motives
By Dan Kaplan
April 29, 2008
SC Magazine
IT security vendors' sole purpose is to generate revenue and they will only create solutions to stop dangerous threats when they are incentivized to do so, the principal security strategist for IBM Internet Security Systems said Wednesday at Interop in Las Vegas.

It Could Be 15 Years Before We Know What's Really Green
By David Berlind
April 29, 2008
InformationWeek
It's the eve before Interop here in Las Vegas and we've just wrapped up Energy Camp where, as can be seen from the user-decided agenda, the conversation went deep and wide on a variety of subjects related to the reduction of information technology's carbon footprint. Two key takeaways for me were (1) many so-called "green" remedies have a dark enough side to them that they may not be as green as we think they are, and (2) it may take another 15 or 20 years before we have it all sorted out. It's not as bad as it sounds, but ...

Interop: Video is the Key To Network Staff Morale
By Sean Michael Kerner
April 29, 2008
Internetnews
I'm sitting in a Cisco sponsored media roundtable session at Interop about the Video Ready Campus and I just heard something that I was startled by.

Interop: How Green Is Your Data Center?
By Sean Michael Kerner
April 29, 2008
Internetnews
Green IT and power saving has been a hot topic ever since the inconvenient truth of our planet's global warming crisis hit the mass media. Sure there are a lot of vendors that have green initiatives but how do you actually measure how green you are?

Interop expected to show networking technology is still hot
By Matt Hamblen
April 28, 2008
ComputerWorld
Interop Las Vegas 2008 runs all this week, featuring about 25% more exhibitors for networking and related technologies than last year's show, almost in defiance of the nation's economic downturn.

Netgear Enhances Channel, Releases New Gear At Interop
By Andrew R Hickey
April 28, 2008
ChannelWeb
Netgear is poised to take Interop Las Vegas 2008 by storm this week, with key enhancements to its partner program and the release of a five new products designed to help SMBs grow.

Interop to offer products for app delivery in the data center, 802.11n survey tools
By Matt Hamblen
April 28, 2008
ComputerWorld
Among the dozens of new products being announced at Interop this week, Citrix Systems Inc. is unveiling an application delivery appliance for the data center.

Looking at Interop
By Curtis Franklin
April 28, 2008
InfoWorld
When I look at the press releases and phone calls that have come my way ahead of the Interop show, two phrases leap out: Unified Communications, and Network Access Control (NAC). It's not that there won't be anything else here at the show, but both of these areas seem to be gaining a lot of momentum heading into the rest of 2008.

Interop 2008
By Douglas Gourlay
April 28, 2008
Cisco Data Center Blog
It's that time of year again, trade-show season! Interop has always been one of my favorites- I guess it's the technical roots of it. Interop started back as Networld and Interop. One more of a trade show, the other an interesting technical challenge and exercise. Back when Interop started no one was certain which protocols would win, whether bridging or routing was the way to go, whether it would be Ethernet, ATM, Token Ring, or FDDI/CDDI to the desktop, etc. What Interop did was force multiple vendors to work together to build a network to support the show floor in a matter of days. There were also interoperability tests of new protocols and such between multiple vendors hardware, software, protocols, etc. In the end it became a gathering place for 20,000+ network professionals to see what worked, what didn't, hear about the latest and greatest...

Expectations for Interop
By Stephen Brown
April 28, 2008
Network Observations
So in a few more hours, I'm hoping on a plane bound for Interop Vegas. Being my first Interop, it'll be interesting to see networkers in mass from customers and competitors to reporters and bloggers.

Virtualization, WLAN and 10 Gigabit Ethernet star at Interop
By Rivka Gewirtz Little
April 28, 2008
SearchITChannel
Virtualization, WAN optimization, application acceleration, 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GigE) and enterprise Wi-Fi will be dominating themes at Interop 2008 in Las Vegas this week.

Interop News: Netgear brings new products for SMB
By Curtis Franklin
April 28, 2008
InfoWorld
The show floor doesn't open until tomorrow, but the press releases are already starting to come in. Netgear had a flurry of them this morning, with the upshot being that the company is pushing into SMB in an ever more serious way. Part of the press material talked about changes to their channel program and the general emphasis on small businesses, but some of the products they announced look quite interesting.

Interop: Microsoft Goes Green With Efficient Code, Employee Bus Line
By Paul McDougall
April 28, 2008
InformationWeek
The software maker in recent months has launched numerous projects that are meant to help reduce its own energy footprint, and the world's. "This is a deliberate effort at our board level," said Rob Bernard, Microsoft's chief environmental strategist, speaking Monday at the Interop tech conference in Las Vegas.

Interop: Dell Preloads Server For Software Appliance Market
By Antone Gonsalves
April 28, 2008
InformationWeek
The CR100, introduced at the Interop conference in Las Vegas, is a 1U rack server that at 16 inches deep is smaller than the typical rack server, Dell executives said. The reduced size is expected to be helpful to space-strapped small and midsize businesses, Dell's target customer.

Netgear Enhances Channel, Releases New Gear At Interop
By Andrew R Hickey
April 28, 2008
ChannelWeb
Netgear is poised to take Interop Las Vegas 2008 by storm this week, with key enhancements to its partner program and the release of a five new products designed to help SMBs grow.

Interop Las Vegas 2008
By Thin Guy
April 28, 2008
The S Word Blog
I'll be pulling booth duty (Tues and Weds), giving chalk talks (Tues 2PM in MS IVA Booth) and also a featured speaker in a session with Foundry, Mitel, and Microsoft (Weds 3:15-4 PM Mandalay Bay Room L).

Network Infrastructure Vendors Launch SMB Products
By Oliver Rist
April 28, 2008
PC Magazine
The small and medium-sized business market is still a hot target for networking vendors as evidenced by a slew of announcements at Spring Interop 2008, now going on at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center here. The leader in the show's SMB charge is definitely Netgear with five small business-centric product announcements.

Is Business Travel Anti-Green And Unnecessary?
By Paul McDougall
April 28, 2008
InformationWeek
That was the topic of a group discussion Monday morning at Interop's Energy Camp program.

The $3 Billion Electricity Bill
By Andrew Conry-Murray
April 28, 2008
InformationWeek
As Energy Camp kicks off here at Interop, I thought it would be good to find some baseline numbers to help frame the discussion of power consumption by IT operations.

Energy Camp, April 28 - Microsoft's Chief Environmental Strategist Rob Bernard Keynotes
By N/A
April 28, 2008
Green Data Center Blog
Energy Camp, an Unconference event looks like a cool event on April 28 in Las Vegas. Keynoting will be Microsoft's Chief Environmental Strategist, Rob Bernard.

Interop: Energy Camp LV08
By Peter Brockmann
April 28, 2008
Brockmann and Company
I spent the day in meetings at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center talking about GREEN. Green IT, Travel Avoidance and Organizing Green for all employees.

Desperately Seeking Interop 2008 Las Vegas
By Harper Mann
April 27, 2008
InfoWorld
Off to Interop. Energy camp looks pretty interestinghttp://www.energycamp.org/. I'm looking forward to seeing what's new in green data centers and the rest of the show.

See you at the Interop Las Vegas 2008 - Firewall Analyzer
By Ragavan S
April 27, 2008
Firewall Analyzer Blog
We will be happy to meet you in person at the Interop Las Vegas 2008. You can visit us at booth number 2319. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop in and contact Mr Karthik VJ. He will be happy to assist you.

Getting technical practice
By Curtis Franklin
April 26, 2008
InfoWorld
Have you ever wondered how your intrepid Test Center editors spend their weekends? No? OK, good for you -- you have a life. We, on the other hand, have networks to build. I'm in Las Vegas for the next few days, along with Test Center Senior Contributing Editor Brian Chee, at Interop. We're doing different things -- I'm writing, photographing, and podcasting around the conference, while he's helping build the network. Today, he was hard at work in the Interop Lab control center

Interop in Vegas Next Week
By Josh Stephens
April 25, 2008
Thwack
I'll be in Vegas for InterOP next week. Stop by our booth and chat if you have some time...

Interop LV 2008 - Scenes from Day Two
By N/A
April 25, 2008
TheTechStop
We've reached the end of Day Two of Interop setup and I have to say that I've never seent he team this excited, this motivated and this productive in such a short time. Externals are up and we are now stress-testing our FOUR DS3 circuits, each of which can deliver 45Mbps of bandwidth. - We've got the NOC built, the PEDs in place and most of the core network up an running. I'm almost afraid to pinch myself, lest I realize that this is all a dream and we really haven't even unloaded the trucks!

Interop Preview: Tech Industry Gets Ready To Rumble
By Paul McDougall
April 25, 2008
InformationWeek
The boxing ring at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, which in the past has hosted pugilists like Sugar Shane Mosley and Lennox Lewis, might be a more appropriate venue for some of the sessions scheduled for next week's Interop 2008 show in Las Vegas than the hotel's placid conference rooms.

25 New Products Debuting At Interop Las Vegas 2008
By N/A
April 25, 2008
ChannelWeb
Interop Las Vegas is set to go full steam ahead this week (April 28 through May 2) and vendors are ready to parade out their new wares for the tens of thousands technology-starved attendees. Everything from networking and voice/video gear to storage and security will be showcased, announced, released, updated and integrated. Products to help cut and gauge power consumption will also take center stage. Just in case you plan to spend your time doubling down at the blackjack table and won't be able to hit every booth on the show floor, we've compiled 35 products that will be on display as Interop storms the Mandalay Bay Convention Center this week.

Soft market to hurt Interop?
By Cisco Subnet
April 25, 2008
Network World
Interop convenes next week under the pall of soft US enterprise spending and the resultant drag on network financials.

Napera at Interop 2008
By Todd
April 25, 2008
Napera
The Napera team will be at Interop 2008 in Vegas next week. We'll be demonstrating our products and talking to analysts and press about our approach to securing the small and medium enterprise. If you'd like to meet, please visit us at the Microsoft NAP partner pavilion - Booth 1719. We'll post further updates from the show floor during the week.

Networking Fest Stakes New Claims
By Stephen Lawson
April 25, 2008
PC World
This year marks a watershed for the Interop trade show in Las Vegas, as the granddaddy of enterprise networking events adds a software show and a security conference.

Interop Las Vegas: 6 Trends to Watch
By The VAR Guy
April 24, 2008
The VAR Guy
The buzz involving Interop Las Vegas (April 27-May 2) is building. The VAR Guy has received briefing requests from Adtran, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks and other networking vendors. Here are three messages he hopes to hear, and three messages he intends to ignore.

Interop Sessions
By Minicom Blog
April 24, 2008
Minicom Blogspot
Interop is just a few sleeps away now. Besides the booths there is a wide array of free sessions and events that people can attend. They are divided into nine categories:

Interop: Marvell To Unveil System-On-Chips To Boost Network Performance
By Antone Gonsalves
April 24, 2008
InformationWeek
Marvell, a maker of storage, communications, and consumer semiconductors, plans to introduce a variety of products at Interop next week, including three systems-on-a-chip (SoC) designed for low power consumption in a wide range of applications, ranging from routers, base stations, storage, and single-board computers to high-volume laser printers.

Interop: Vettro Mobile App Helps Protect Underground Pipes, Cables
By Antone Gonsalves
April 24, 2008
InformationWeek
Vettro plans to introduce at Interop next week a mobile workforce application that makes the process of locating underground utility equipment, such as pipes and cables, more efficient.

Interop Gets Latest Religion
By Lisa Plummer
April 24, 2008
Tradeshow Week
A major technology event is about to the join the ranks of tradeshows that have gone green. Set to take place April 27-May 2 at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Interop, the show for information technology professionals, will include a one-day conference to address the greening of the IT industry. In addition, TechWeb (formerly CMP Media, a division of United Business Media) will undertake some environmentally friendly initiatives in the show's production.

Anticipating what's on tap at Interop
By Jon Oltsik
April 23, 2008
CNET
The RSA security conference is a distant memory and the industry buzz has shifted to all things networking at Interop next week. What can users anticipate in Las Vegas?

Interop Las Vegas 2008
By Douglas Gourlay
April 23, 2008
Cisco Data Center Blog
Just a quick invite to everyone to drop by our booth at Interop next week. We will have demonstrations of FCoE, the Nexus 5000, Nexus 7000, and our virtualized Application networking technologies as well. I'll be running around at a few presentations on Data Center as well as a fun panel on 10Gb Ethernet and where the technology is heading, then drop by and do some booth duty.

Getting ready for Interop
By Ann Bednarz
April 22, 2008
Network World
Interop kicks off in less than a week, and WAN optimization and application acceleration technologies promise to be well represented at the flagship trade show for the networking industry. There's even a conference track devoted to application delivery that's designed to help IT teams identify what they need to do to ensure performance is acceptable.

Interop WLAN preview
By Joanie Wexler
April 21, 2008
Network World
Many of the wireless LAN vendors are announcing products today that they hope you'll rush to see in demo mode when the Interop trade show kicks off next week in Las Vegas.

Championing Enterprise Wi-Fi, Aruba Intros New Wireless Slate
By Pedro Hernandez
April 21, 2008
Enterprise IT Planet
As Interop draws closer, Aruba Networks is backing up its "All Wireless Office" vision with a slate of new offerings. The company will be showing off new wireless gear and management software with the purpose of making WLANs as safe and reliable as their CAT5 cousins.

Interop Las Vegas 2008 planning guide
By Brad Reed
April 21, 2008
Network World
Energy camp @ Interop This day-long seminar, which takes place the day before Interop formally kicks off, is dedicated to reducing IT's carbon footprint. According to Interop General Manager Lenny Heymann, Energy Camp will "open up the discussion to the whole community to ask for their perspectives on sustainability." He says the camp will be much more participatory than traditional panels and sessions, because audience members will be asked to share their perspectives. Energy Camp is organized by David Berlind, general manager of alternative events for TechWeb, and James Governor, co-founder of open source analyst firm RedMonk.

802.11n wireless gear to shine at Interop
By John Cox
April 21, 2008
InfoWorld
Wireless LAN vendors are unveiling at Interop Las Vegas next week a slew of draft 2 IEEE 802.11n access points, controllers, and management features aimed at spurring enterprise adoption of the technology.

eWEEK Labs offers advice on evaluating the coming WLAN tools wave.
April 14, 2008
eWeek
Fortunately, satisfactory 802.11n support for both portable analyzers and overlay analysis and security networks is on its way. I anticipate that several wireless networking players will announce full 802.11n analysis support for their products, starting at the Interop show in Las Vegas later this month and continuing throughout the rest of the second quarter.

It's Time for Interop
April 14, 2008
TheTechStop
...getting ready for THE network event of the year. Starting in about a week, an army of engineers, dweebs and uberGeeks will be decending upon the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas to deploy the largest temporary network in the world. If you get a chance, drop on by Interop and see what we're doing.

Enterprise 2.0, corporate agility big themes at Interop '08
By Brad Reed
April 9, 2008
Network World
IT departments intent on blocking access to workers' favorite consumer devices and social networking Web sites will have to change their ways or risk falling behind the times, says Interop General Manager Lenny Heymann.

Energy Camp Datapoint: TechWebTV's Most-Watched Video Is About Green Tech
By David Berlind
April 1, 2008
Information Week
If you're one of those people jumping on the green tech bandwagon (for whatever reasons), then I hope you'll be coming out to Interop in Las Vegas to join us for Energy Camp (which actually runs the day before Interop). It's pretty much the only camp so far that's dedicated to an open conversation around energy saving technology and it's a great opportunity for all stakeholders -- users, IT pros, solution providers, consortia, etc. -- to get into the same room to work through some of the thornier issues like common lexicon. Energy Camp is free to attend and all registrants get a free pass into Interop.

Interop Las Vegas 2008
March 13, 2008
KVM Technology by Minicom
It is always one of the highlights of the year. Stay tuned for further and more in-depth coverage.

Energy Camp Mentioned In InfoWorld. Are You Coming?
By David Berlind
January 15, 2008
Information Week
Energy Camp, the IT industry's first unconference dedicated to establishing a multilateral dialog between all IT constituencies on issues relating to running green technology and reducing energy consumption, was mentioned in a story by Brad Reed in InfoWorld. I, along with Redmonk principal analyst James Governor (author of the Greenmonk Blog) will be hosting Energy Camp in a few weeks. Somewhat ironically, ...