Top Coverage Highlights from Interop

Attending Interop Trade Show
By Kim Cullen
July 20, 2009
Power Source Online
A great way to get additional exposure for your company, make new contacts and build upon existing customer relationships is attending or exhibiting at an Industry Trade Show and/or Conference. In May, I attended Interop Las Vegas 2009, a conference and exhibit expo that is the "Technology Industry's most comprehensive IT Conference," according to Interop's website.

New Enterprise Portals Research: Portals Back in Fashion
By Jarrod Gingras
June 15, 2009
CMS Watch
Also, last month at the Interop show in Las Vegas, my colleague Alan Pelz Sharpe explained some of his observations of the portal marketplace.

CIOs Look To Accelerate Out of Recession
By Matt Hines
June 11, 2009
CIO Insight
A recent poll of 933 IT workers attending Interop showed that more than 80 percent of organizations plan to spend more this year than they did in 2008. Only seven percent of respondents said they would spend less.

The need to consider a router's power efficiency metrics
By Jim Metzler
June 8, 2009
Network World
At the recent Interop conference, Jim moderated a highly interactive panel that was entitled "Is Routing Undergoing a Mid-Life Crisis?"

The cloud conversation is changing
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June 6, 2009
CNET News
I was privileged to be a part of the Enterprise Cloud Summit that took place at the beginning of Interop in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. The program was excellent, with an all-star list of cloud experts and a surprisingly large number of attendees who were new to cloud computing and trying to get a sense of what it was all about.

Red Hat virtual desktop technology heads into beta tests
By Bob Brown
June 3, 2009
IT World
Side-by-side Windows displays might be the last thing you would expect to see taking center stage at Red Hat's booth at the recent Interop show in Las Vegas. But it makes sense when you consider they were part of a demo showcasing the company's pursuit of what it sees as a huge opportunity: the emerging virtual desktop market.

Social Media For SMBs = So Me!
By Fredric Paul
June 3, 2009
bMighty
Next to mobility and cloud computing, social networking was the talk of Interop this year -- especially at a conference session devoted to social software tools and a portion of the Unconference, where real SMB users talked about how to make the most of it.

Cisco Touts UC, Collaboration Products as HP, Microsoft Move in
By Jeffrey Burt
June 2, 2009
eWeek
Cisco's move comes just weeks after Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft at Interop on May 19 unveiled a four-year, $180 million UC and collaboration strategy of their own, a move that one Cisco official said merely further validates Cisco's own initiatives.

Interop Wrap-up and on to Cisco Live!
By Julia Lim
June 2, 2009
ScienceLogic Blog
This is my first opportunity since the show to just sit down and get a post out about Interop in general with some hopefully funny (to you) stories.

Cloud Computing: Useful Technology Or Mere Marketing Buzzword?
By Fredric Paul
June 1, 2009
bMighty
From CloudCamp to keynotes, conference sessions to the Unconference, cloud computing was a cornerstone of Interop 2009 in Las Vegas. But the enterprise-centric debate spent a lot of time focusing on what cloud computing isn't. Could it be that small and midsize companies understand cloud computing better than their larger competitors?

Is routing undergoing a mid-life crisis?
By Jim Metzler and Steve Taylor
June 1, 2009
Network World
At the recent Interop conference, Jim moderated a panel that had the same name as this newsletter. We will use this newsletter to discuss what kind of mid-life crisis, if any, that the panelists thought that routing was undergoing.

Network Authentication
By Steven Song
June 1, 2009
Cisco Innovation Blog
Interop Las Vegas 2009 is now in the rearview mirror. I came back with a lot of discussions still echoing in my ears. The gathering was smaller than last year but still a good turn out. Cisco conducted a poll among conference attendees. More than 70% of them picked security as an area of interests, higher than any other areas. And network authentication was a hot topic.

Interview With Gene Litt at Interop 2009
By admin
June 1, 2009
APM Blog
TMCnet's interview with Shunra's very own Gene Litt at Interop 2009 Las Vegas

ConnectZone Goes to Vegas (for the Interop trade show)
By Cable Geek
May 29, 2009
ConnectZone Blog
When ConnectZone decided to exhibit at the 2009 Interop show this year, we knew it was going to be a big deal. How big, we had no idea.

Elastic Computing and a Sumo Wrestler Waistline
By David Link
May 29, 2009
ScienceLogic Blog
Last Thursday at the Interop Las Vegas conference, I sat in on an interesting panel discussion entitled "What Elastic Capacity means for IT Operations". What made this an interesting discussion, is the starkly different opinions of the panelists confirmed that we are a long way from consensus on the speed and growth of this emerging market.

Getting Ready for the Rebound
By Eric Krapf
May 29, 2009
No Jitter
I believe I got an inkling of this movement at Interop in Las Vegas last week. The questions from the audience had much less to do with basics of voice over IP, or tactical decisions around technology replacement. Instead, there seemed to be a clear sense that Unified Communications was supposed to do something fundamentally different for your enterprise; the question that remained was, well, what exactly does UC do for me? Communications decision-makers will need to be ready with the answer that applies to their enterprises.

Netbooks Vs. Smartphones And Planet Of The Apps
By Fredric Paul
May 28, 2009
bMighty
What can small and midsize companies expect from mobile technology? Conference sessions and conversations at this year's Interop event offer some clues on smartphones vs. netbooks and the rise of mobile applications in smaller companies.

Interop: NetScout demos location-based wireless LAN troubleshooting
By Shamus McGillicuddy
May 28, 2009
SearchNetworking.com
At Interop, NetScout announced the integration of its Sniffer Global network analyzer product with Cisco's Mobility Services Engine. This integration gives network managers the ability to do location-based troubleshooting of wireless LAN networks. A user can find the location of a client device that is experiencing performance issues, determine what access point that device is using and discover all other proximal network activity that could be affecting performance.

HP and Microsoft Draw a Bead On Cisco
By Michael Finneran
May 28, 2009
Unified Communications Strategies
The big UC news out of last week's InterOp show in Las Vegas was a four-year global initiative between HP and Microsoft to deliver an end-to-end unified communications and collaboration solution. The companies plan to invest up to an additional $180 million in product development, professional services, as well as joint sales and marketing, to stake out a larger share of the burgeoning UC market. The Frontline Partnership, as it is called, was announced during Tuesday's keynote address by Marius Haas,
Senior Vice President and General Manager of
HP ProCurve Networking.

Interop: Fibre Channel over Ethernet Demo by Ethernet Alliance
By Shamus McGillicuddy
May 28, 2009
SearchNetworking.com
While walking the floor at Interop Las Vegas last week, I met with Brad Booth, chairman of the Ethernet Alliance, who demonstrated Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). In this video, you can see how the Ethernet Alliance used priority flow control and enhanced transmission selection to protect video traffic moving over FCoE. As Brad describes, this video features a NetApp Fibre Channel array sending Fibre Channel and ISCSI traffic across an Ethernet network into two servers. The servers are sending streaming video to a monitor while a Finisar Xgig traffic generator is blasting the network with simulated traffic.

Cloud Cafe - Interop 2009 Discussions #1
By John Willis
May 27, 2009
IT Management and Cloud Blog
After my Interop session "Lots to Love, Less to Use: How Enterprises Can Embrace the Cloud" I sort of hit the jackpot. I was able round up an impressive group of cloud thought leaders for some one on one interviews. John Janakiraman, Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer at Skytap, was my my first victim.

Cloud Cafe - Interop 2009 Discussions #4
By John M. Willis
May 27, 2009
IT Management and Cloud Blog
Last but certainly not least James Urquhart of Wisdom of Clouds and Cisco.

What's the cloud's killer app? [video]
By Larry Dignan
May 27, 2009
ZDNet
At the Interop conference in Las Vegas, SAP CTO Vishal Sikka shares his views with M.R. Rangaswami, co-founder of the Sand Hill Group on application development in the cloud. He pinpoints two key areas for continued research, real-time search and mobility.

Interop 2009 Las Vegas: Interview with Tony Byrne, of CMS Watch
May 27, 2009
Web Professional Minute
WOW participated as an exhibitor and a media sponsor of Interop 2009 last week in Las Vegas, NV. Participation in this year's Interop marks a milestone of sorts since WOW celebrated our tenth year anniversary of participation on the show floor and collaboration with the event and its management team.

Aspera brings faster file downloads to Media Companies
By Larry Chaffin
May 27, 2009
Cisco
I had the chance to sit down with President and Co-Founder of Aspera Michelle Munson at Interop to learn why her company was different from other WAN Acceleration Companies. The first thing you should know is Aspera is a software company, this is unlike Cisco, Riverbed, Juniper, Expand, Blue Coat and Fastsoft who all offer appliance based solutions. The call the solution fasp, this is a ground up built solution to fill the pipe of your WAN links in the network.

UC and Enterprise 2.0: United In the Pursuit of Hyper-Productivity
By Mike Bergelson
May 27, 2009
No Jitter
I was honored to receive an invitation to join a panel discussion at last week's Interop show in Las Vegas playfully titled "Unified Communications Meets Enterprise 2.0--Social Computing Love Fest or Battle Royale?" In this post, I'll recap one of my early hypotheses on the subject

Cisco Puts Collaboration in Motion
By Jennifer LeClaire
May 27, 2009
JenniferLeClaire.com
Cisco is making its move in the mobile work space world. Last week, at the Interop show in Las Vegas, the networking giant announced a new initiative called Collaboration in Motion, that draws from a number of its product lines to facilitate collaboration in the mobile work space.

TMCnet Interop 2009 Video Interviews Beginning to Post
By Rich Tehrani
May 27, 2009
TMCNet
Last week at Interop my team conducted over 100 interviews with thought leaders at the show. Topics discussed include green switching, testing, Ethernet, cloud computing and more. So far, half a dozen of the videos have been posted and more are being added continually. I hope you find them helpful.

IT Automation Technology Dominates Vegas Conferences
By Denise Dubie
May 26, 2009
CIO.com
Automation isn't new, but with few budget dollars and strapped IT staff, many enterprise network managers are turning to the technology to complete operational tasks and create a more efficient environment. See a slideshow of products spotlighted at Interop here. Attendees, vendors and industry watchers at Interop Las Vegas and Forrester IT Forum this week shared why automation technology could help IT departments continue to delivery optimal IT services without requiring a significant capital investment

X86 virtualization not ready for regulated apps
By Jon Brodkin
May 26, 2009
ComputerWorld
X86 virtualization is not ready for highly regulated, mission-critical applications, IBM security expert Joshua Corman argued at Interop Las Vegas this week.

Aruba Networks' New Branch Office Controller Product Line Secures Best of Interop Award
By Shireen Dee
May 26, 2009
TMCnet.com
Aruba Networks, Inc., a provider of wireless Local Area Networks and secure mobility solutions, recently announced that its new product line, the 600 Series Branch Office Controllers (BOCs), has won the 2009 Best of Interop (News - Alert) Awards in the wireless and mobility class. With this Aruba's products have gained recognition from InformationWeek Analytics, a content service for business technology forerunners, and Interop, the global business technology event series.

Vignettes from Interop
By Manek
May 26, 2009
ZDNet
Just got back from Interop -- brain's still a bit foggy for the usual trans-Atlantic reasons -- but one thing that sticks with me is the emphasis put on cloud computing. Everyone I spoke to had an angle on it, whether they're wireless vendors, networking vendors, or server vendors.

VoIP takes the stage at Interop
By Larry Hettick
May 26, 2009
Network World
In this newsletter, we'll provide a quick wrap-up on VoIP and convergence-related announcements from Interop 2009 held last week in Las Vegas. Highlights include news from Glowpoint on its Telepresence InterExchange, Polycom with several announcements, Shoretel's integration showcase, and Skype's views on business voice.

WAN Optimization at Interop: More of the Same, or Totally Different?
By Mark Weiner
May 26, 2009
Cisco's Data Center Network Blog
Sometimes it's more fun sitting on the panel than it is watching it from the audience. It certainly provided a unique opportunity to watch a group of experienced IT vendor technologists and marketeers all claim to be unique, and THE SOLUTION for our 100+ audience members that filled the mid-sized room.

Talking cloud computing networks and 10 Gigabit Ethernet with Arista
By Shamus McGillicuddy
May 26, 2009
SearchNetworking.com
SearchNetworking.com met with some of Arista's executives at Interop Las Vegas and talked to them about their vision for the company.

Interop Raises CIO-Level Interest In Cloud, Virtualization: Video
By Bob Evans
May 25, 2009
Global CIO Blog
While last week's Interop event in Las Vegas showcased a wide range of innovative enterprise technologies including mobility, WAN optimization, security, storage, smartphones, data center infrastructure, servers, and more, the biggest CIO-level activity was centered around cloud computing, whose acceptance and potential are growing rapidly, and virtualization, which has already become a cornerstone in 21st-century enterprise IT strategy.

Interop 2009 Trends, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Ethernet and Wireless
By Rich Tehrani
May 25, 2009
TMCNet
I had a good time at Interop this last week catching up with the industry and seeing where the strengths in technology are. Some bright spots were virtualization, cloud computing, Ethernet and wireless.

Interop Las Vegas Recap
By Staff
May 25, 2009
Current
If you couldn't make it out to Interop 2009 in Las Vegas this week, we've compiled a roundup of the news out of the show that relates to IP communications

Interop: Aruba unveils lifetime warranty on APs
By Andrew R.
May 25, 2009
CRN
At Interop Las Vegas, Aruba Networks said it now offers a lifetime warranty on many of its indoor access points. Aruba Networks this week began offering a lifetime warranty for all new shipments of some of the most widely used indoor access points in its arsenal.

Interop Las Vegas 2009 IPv6 Survey
By Jeremy Hitchcock
May 24, 2009
CircleID
Last week in Las Vegas, the Interop show took place. An unofficial count of 14,000 technology buyers and enthusiasts attended. While much lower than its record (over 100,000 strong), the show is still the biggest technology show which features a major presence by virtually every networking vendor. While exhibiting at Interop, we decided to walk the Interop Expo and ask the IPv6 support question to see if the mainstream corporate and enterprise space agrees with the need to think beyond IPv4.

Steve interviews fusion-io cofounder, engineers, ceo at Networld + Interop Las Vegas
By Steve Bell
May 24, 2009
Startup Trek
As the co-founder of fusion-io explains in this interview on the opening day of N+I Las Vegas (in Startup City), hard disk drive technology has not kept up with "Moore's Law" which has defined the pace of innovation in semiconductors, especially memory, dsp, and processors for 40 years. Today it takes roughly 500 hard disk drives to keep up with a state of the art "quad quad" (16) core Pentium-based server. But fusion-io's flash (semiconductor) based memory systems can keep up with the same server processor array, because it has no moving parts.

Interop: Early Signs of a Modest Recovery in IT Spending?
By Ed Maguire
May 23, 2009
The Mag-Wire
I spent this past week at the Interop Conference in Las Vegas, an annual event that has grown beyond its networking origins to encompass a broad range of technologies related to the data center. While attendance appeared to be down somewhere between 15-20% from last year's 17,000 attendees, the sessions were well attended and show floor attendance was healthy.

IPSO Interop Event
By Akiba
May 23, 2009
Open Source Zigbee Blog
This week the IP Smart Object Alliance converged in Las Vegas for a live global interop event at Networld/Interop 2009/

What Happens In Vegas: 25 Scenes From Interop 2009
By ChannelWeb Staff
May 23, 2009
ChannelWeb
Interop Las Vegas 2009 has ended, and the hangovers (whether from being overworked or overindulging) have faded. The week saw tens of thousands of IT professionals storm the Mandalay Bay Convention Center to check out the latest products, discover new tips and techniques and network with peers.

Interop journey lets me test new tools
By Keith Shaw
May 22, 2009
Network World
Last week's Interop Las Vegas 2009 show gave me a chance to break out some of the travel-related devices that have been around the office for a while. In the course of doing audio podcast interviews and videos, I took advantage of several gadgets to make my life a bit easier.

Interop 2009 Proves Innovation Going Strong
By Alan Gray
May 22, 2009
NewsBlaze
Although the economy is down, innovation still appears to be strong, with more than 55 exhibitors announcing new products at the Interop Expo. All of the companies and individuals I interviewed at the show, found several things to interest them, or to help their business

Interop: Aruba Unveils Lifetime Warranty On APs
By Andrew R. Hickey
May 22, 2009
ChannelWeb
Aruba Networks this week began offering a lifetime warranty for all new shipments of some of the most widely used indoor access points in its arsenal. At Interop Las Vegas 2009, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based wireless vendor said the lifetime warranty will cover all new shipments on or after May 21 of the AP-120, AP-70, AP-60 and RAP-5 families of indoor Wi-Fi access points.

Cavium Networks and Partners Steal the Show at Interop with a Wide Range of Products
By Rajani Baburajan
May 22, 2009
TMCNet
Cavium Networks, a provider of integrated semiconductor products for networking, communications, wireless, storage, video and security applications, along with six of its ecosystem partners demonstrated multiple reference designs using the OCTEON multi-core MIPS64 processors at the Interop (News - Alert) 2009, Las Vegas.

Interop 09: Five Impressions
By Seamless Enterprise Team
May 22, 2009
The Seamless Enterprise
This week's Interop conference more than met expectations. Sprint's booth was busy all week and attendees were treated to a full slate of good presentations and networking opportunities. Here's a few impressions from our team: 1. Healthy attendance: this is impressive, particularly considering we're in a serious recession-one that has hurt traffic at many shows. While traffic overall was down slightly from last year, it was steady at our booth and the quality of questions was high.

InteropNet Vegas 2009 - Mission Possible II
By M. Leon Berger
May 22, 2009
ScienceLogic Blog
This being my second consecutive year working at the InteropNet NOC I have a different prospective and an increased appreciation for how special this event truly is. As you may or may not know the Interop network is staged and built in the SF bay area.

Interop: Up Close with DisplayLink (video)
By Keith Shaw
May 22, 2009
NetworkWorld.tv
Keith Shaw gets a demo of the latest DisplayLink advances, which USB-enable high-performance monitors as well as allow netbooks to attach to monitors via USB.

10 Hot 10-Gigabit Ethernet Products At Interop Las Vegas
By ChannelWeb Staff
May 21, 2009
ChannelWeb
10-Gigabit Ethernet is all the rage at Interop Las Vegas 2009. As applications become more bandwidth-heavy and networks grow to accommodate the upswing in traffic and the need for speed, 10-Gigabit Ethernet has become a necessity for high performance in the data center. Here are 10 of the 10-Gigabit Ethernet products that are drawing attention on the Interop show floor.

Interop Las Vegas recap
By Pete Wylie
May 21, 2009
Fierce VoIP
If you couldn't make it out to Interop 2009 in Las Vegas this week, we've compiled a roundup of the news out of the show that relates to IP communications. Besides the HP and Microsoft announcement, detailed below, there weren't any groundbreaking releases on unified communications or VoIP. Cloud computing was a hot topic again, though the definition and implementation of the technology remains, well, cloudy. If you did make it out to Interop, and saw something exciting related to IP communications that we missed, shoot us an email or get in touch with us on Twitter @fiercevoip.

Interop: Reinvent data center networks by smashing silos
By Shamus McGillicuddy
May 21, 2009
Search Networking
In order to get the most out of next-generation data center networking technologies such as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), enterprise IT departments must not only conquer interoperability issues, but also break down organizational silos within the data center.

Interop: Many Problems Among Virtualization's Gains
By W. David Gardner
May 21, 2009
Information Week
Virtualization may be taking the IT world by storm, but many organizations aren't getting the cost and resource savings promoted by the champions of virtualization, according to a study released at the Interop Conference and Expo in Las Vegas this week.

Interop: IBM Predicts Data Center Expansion Via Containers
By J. Nicholas Hoover
May 21, 2009
Information Week
Containerized data center equipment could increasingly become a way to add capacity to existing data centers without having to build entirely new data centers, IBM (NYSE: IBM) cloud VP Ric Telford predicted in a presentation Wednesday at the Interop Conference and Expo in Las Vegas.

Interop Attendees Strong Despite Sluggish Economy
May 21, 2009
Dark Reading
Budgets are actually expected to increase by 3 percent over the next 12 months, according to Network Instruments poll at Interop Las Vegas. With only 22 percent of organizations having experienced IT department layoffs, Interop attendees expressed steady optimism in the face of a sluggish economy. The onsite survey of 100 network engineers and IT executives attending Interop found:

Interop: Data Represents Big Cloud Challenge
By J. Nicholas Hoover
May 21, 2009
InformationWeek
Of all the stumbling blocks companies face in moving to cloud computing for important tasks, figuring out what to do with copious amounts of data that's stored or generated on premises is close to the top of the list, panelists said at an Interop Conference and Expo session Thursday.

Interop attendees upbeat, but focused
By Susan Fogarty
May 21, 2009
SearchNetworking.com
While walking the expo floor at Interop Las Vegas this week, I was pleasantly relieved to see that the gloomy economy has not dampened the spirits of the networking industry. Although I have heard rumors that show traffic is down, it looks pretty healthy to me (certainly a far cry better than any of the New York events). And the mood is upbeat. In fact, several conference attendees have expressed to me their belief that the economy has "turned the corner" and they are thinking about what comes next.

Interop Highlights
By NetEvents TV Staff
May 21, 2009
NetEvents
NetEvents TV has toured the Interop 2009 show to winkle out tomorrow's hot products, we've interviewed the companies who've won best of show awards, and we've talked to show boss Lenny Heymann to find out what's new and what's coming up. Check out our Interop Show Highlights Report.

How Reality Blew the Cloud Away at Interop
By Lori MacVittie
May 21, 2009
DevCentral
As a telecommuter - and one that lives in that technological mecca of the midwest, Green Bay - I don't often get the chance to talk face to face with, well, anyone. Being conscripted into booth duty at Interop this week means I get to talk to people with real problems and with ones that can quickly bring anyone with their head in the clouds back down to earth.

Best of Interop 2009 Show Winners
By CommunicationsDirect Staff
May 21, 2009
CommunicationsDirect
Here are the winners of the Best of Interop awards.

Data Center Skills Discussion Sparks Debate
By Denise Dubie
May 21, 2009
CIO.com
Data center managers speaking on a panel at Interop Las Vegas 2009 told session attendees that they look for energetic, passionate and eager-to-learn candidates to fill current positions - rather than IT professionals with specialized skills. Among the reasons cited by the two panelists were a greater need for a broad set of skills, including facilities and IT know-how, and business acumen.

UnCommon Cloud Training at Interop Las Vegas
By John Savageau
May 21, 2009
John Savageau's Telecom Topics Blog
Organizers of the Cloud Camp have developed a great venue for training. Objective - bring the masses quickly up to speed on cloud computing. Oh yes, and do it in an interesting, painless venue that not only informs, but also inspires and motivates attendees to become viral cloud evangelists. Several hundred people showed up for the Cloud Camp at Interop Las Vegas, showing not only intense interest in cloud computing, but also interest in a creative training environment organized locally by Dave Nielsen and Sam Charrington.

INTEROP Day 4 Recap
By Douglas Haider
May 21, 2009
ComputerWorld
Unfortunately, this year's INTEROP Las Vegas show has come to an end. I have identified two major themes among the wireless & mobile vendors at the show.

Virtualization Cost Savings Hard to Come By, Interop Survey Finds
By Denise Dubie
May 20, 2009
Network World
LAS VEGAS -- Despite the reported benefits of virtualization, a majority of IT managers polled at Interop this week say they experience problems with the technology and don't always realize the cost benefit.

Microsoft-HP Seal Big UC Deal
By Eric Krapf
May 20, 2009
No Jitter
One of the biggest announcements here at Interop this week has been the HP-Microsoft deal in Unified Communications. The headline number was that HP and Microsoft say they'll spend $180 million to do product development, services, joint sales and marketing around Microsoft's UC systems--i.e., Office Communications Server--together with HP services and devices.

Interop Launches: Avocent, 3tera, Apcon, Aten
By Rich Miller
May 20, 2009
Data Center Knowledge
It's been a busy week for new product announcements at the Interop show in Las Vegas. Here's a roundup.

Interop: Google's Amazon S3-Killer Coming Soon?
By Sean Michael Kerner
May 20, 2009
InternetNews
From the "Remember Gdrive?" files: LAS VEGAS -- Google's answer to Amazon's S3 cloud storage service is coming "within weeks" according to Mike Repass, product manager at Google. Repass was on the stage at the Interop Enterprise Cloud summit, talking about Google's AppEngine and related cloud initiatives.

INTEROP Day 2 Recap
By Douglas Haider
May 20, 2009
ComputerWorld
This the second of my daily updates from INTEROP Las Vegas and the Forrester IT Forum. Today, I walked the INTEROP show floor with a focus on wireless & mobile technology.

Performance Testing and Integration at Interop
By Mike Fratto
May 20, 2009
InformationWeek
If networking is cool at Interop, then testing, the red-headed stepchild of networking, is going to make itself known. Factors like data center consolidation and virtualization are changing the demands made of the network for more resilient, low latency and high speed capacity.

Fireside Chat with Lew Moorman
By Andrew R. Hickey
May 20, 2009
BitCurrent
The morning of day 2 at the Enterprise Cloud Summit wrapped up with a fireside chat with Lew Moorman, CSO of Rackspace (Mosso). Here are some of the more interesting quotes:

A tour of the Interop network (NOC)
By David Spark
May 20, 2009
Riverbed
At the last Interop in New York (2008), one of my favorite video interviews was a tour of the Interop network, also known as the network operations center or NOC. The NOC is the largest temporary network in the world. If you're a network geek, you're going to love watching this tour. Mark Sullivan who gave the tour last year, guided it again this year. Along with Mark is Matt Easley of Riverbed. Riverbed donated a few Steelhead appliances for the network.:

CIO Boot Camp Highlights
By David Spark
May 20, 2009
Riverbed
CIO Boot Camp Highlights David Spark here, reporting for Riverbed at CIO Boot Camp at Interop in Las Vegas, NV. Below is a short video summary of all the happenings today at CIO Boot Camp, the conference for IT professionals looking to graduate to the level of CIO within their organization. A great panel of CIOs, sessions, and conversations lasted the entire day. Watch the video for some of the highlights of the day, but make sure you read the rest of the Riverbed blog for complete coverage of the event. If you're a wanna be CIO, it's a must watch and read.

Interop: Skype Looks For More Business Users
By J. Nicholas Hoover
May 20, 2009
Information Week
Skype is making a bigger play at business users, Stefan Öberg, general manager and VP of Skype for business, said in a keynote address at Interop on Wednesday. "When I started at Skype in 2005, it was unthinkable that I'd be here at Interop talking about Skype as a business tool," Öberg said. "We've come a long way in those years."

VMware CTO talks virtual server networking at Interop
By Shamus McGillicuddy
May 20, 2009
Information Week
Virtual server networking can be challenging because of the lack of visibility into the virtual machines. But, as companies creep closer to 100% virtualized environments, virtualization software leader VMware is aware of these challenges and is working to address them through APIs, new products and partnerships. VMware CTO Stephen Herrod sat down with SearchNetworking.com at Interop Las Vegas to discuss virtual server networking. Herrod described the challenges that networking professionals face with server virtualization and what VMware and others in the industry are doing to solve those challenges.

InterOp shows off Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Unified Communications
By Michael Miller
May 20, 2009
PC Magazine
I've spent yesterday and today at the InterOp show in Las Vegas, and a couple of trends seem notable. As you would expect in this economy, the show seems smaller than previous years, but the show floor still is fairly full.There are over 400 exhibitors, and probably 10 to 15,000 attendees.

Wi-Fi News from Interop 2009
By Lisa Phifer
May 20, 2009
Wi-Fi Planet
Wireless mobility has gone mainstream. On the shrinking show-floor of Interop Las Vegas 2009, bigger, badder hardware has taken a back seat to innovative software and deployment strategies: virtualization, cloud computing, and mobile applications. Enterprise networking is becoming less about plumbing and more about business process enablement-on-site and off

Interop: Pricing the cloud is an ongoing challenge
By Jon Brodkin
May 20, 2009
ComputerWorld
Cloud computing is taking off in large part because the delivery of IT services and infrastructure over the Web offers better pricing and more flexible pricing options. That, at least, is the theory. But what if cloud pricing models are so confusing that IT shops end up paying more than they expect? Slideshow: Products shown at Interop These issues related to cloud pricing models were tackled at Interop Las Vegas Tuesday morning in a panel of vendors moderated by Allan Leinwand, a venture partner at Panorama Capital.

Virtualization Could Collide with PCI, But Help Forensics
By Kelly Jackson Higgins
May 20, 2009
DarkReading

InterOp shows off Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Unified Communications
By Michael J. Miller
May 20, 2009
DarkReading
I've spent yesterday and today at the InterOp show in Las Vegas, and a couple of trends seem notable. As you would expect in this economy, the show seems smaller than previous years, but the show floor still is fairly full.There are over 400 exhibitors, and probably 10 to 15,000 attendees.

InterOp shows off Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Unified Communications
By Jim Metzler
May 20, 2009
Application Delivery Blog
The first session I moderated on Tuesday morning was on Application Performance Management (APM). The panelists were from NetQoS, CA and Fluke. I find this to be a very important topic because I strongly believe that all that a company's business managers really care about is the performance of a handful of applications that they use to run their business unit. All of the infrastructure components (e.g., LAN, WAN, SAN, servers, OSs, firewalls, WOCs - you get the idea) are just a means towards an end.

45 minutes of Interop podcasty goodness
By Keith Shaw
May 20, 2009
NetworkWorld
I've wrapped up my podcast audio interviews here at Interop Las Vegas 2009, here's a list of all of the five interviews we did at the show: Tracking security via real-time search: Keith Shaw talks with Splunk's Michael Baum about how the Interop show network is using Splunk to troubleshoot problems and track real-time security issues. Also, how searching data in real-time can help in virtual environments. (8:06)

Thoughts from Cisco and Nemertes Execs from the Floor of Interop
By Tugba Goksel
May 20, 2009
Cisco Blogs
Marie Hattar, Cisco VP and Johna Till Johnson, Nemertes President and Co-Founder, discuss the trends and highlights emerging at Interop 09/Las Vegas

Best of Interop 2009 Winners Announced, any surprise winners?
By Larry Chaffin
May 20, 2009
Network World
With over 160 products vying for recognition, trying to decide the top winner for BOI is always a challenge. Interestingly enough, the choice for Best of Interop this year became a knock-down, drag-out challenge between two companies whose products actually fit hand in glove. Cisco's new UCS and the newest iteration of VMware's venerable virtualization platform, vSphere 4 were top-flight contenders to the very end. Though it was almost a chicken and egg argument, our BOI winner - vSphere 4 emerged as the winner because of its outstanding innovation, industry-wide impact and substantial improvement over previous generations.

Verizon Business unveils new cloud capabilities
By Dan O'Shea
May 20, 2009
Fierce Telecom
The cloud computing market continues to gather strength and build toward a competitive storm, with Verizon Business announcing at Interop in Las Vegas this week (remember Interop?) that it is launching several new cloud-based capabilities for customers of its private IP networking services. The new offerings include Asset Assurance fault management, monitoring and reporting tools; an enhanced Internet Security Assessment service; and new managed security capabilities.

Expect more from WAN optimization than just optimization
By Tim Greene
May 20, 2009
Network World
LAS VEGAS -- WAN optimization is becoming just an element of larger application-delivery schemes that vendors are approaching quite differently, Interop attendees were told this week.

Finding the ROI at Interop
By David Spark
May 20, 2009
Riverbed
I spoke with the very outspoken networking industry insider, Larry Chaffin, CEO and Chairman of Pluto Networks and blogger for Network World. I asked him what people are looking for here at Interop and he said, "ROI." So the inevitable follow up question was, "So where's the ROI?" Watch Chaffin's answer. He talks about video conferencing to reduce travel costs, WAN optimization to reduce bandwidth, easier storage to maintain, and consolidation of equipment to reduce power costs.

Live from Interop: the future of the data center
By Dave Stevens
May 20, 2009
Brocade
I was part of a lively panel discussion at Interop in Las Vegas today and it turns out we do agree on something with our competitors (Cisco, Juniper, Riverbed were the others on the panel), data center consolidation is a reality. How you get there and how much it is going to cost you is where we diverge. If you missed it, take a listen to some of the key take-aways:

Notes From Interop: Attendees, Wrestling Rings and Cloud Computing
By Tom Foremsky
May 20, 2009
Silicon Valley Watcher
As the unofficial theme of the conference seemed to be "cloud computing," I asked some attendees to share their thoughts on the subject.

Google's GDrive Cloud Storage Offering "Coming Soon"
By Reuven Cohen
May 20, 2009
ElasticVapor
There has been a lot of talk this week about a new cloud storage service being rolled out by Google as part of their Google App Engine offering. The announcement was part of a presentation at the Interop Conference in Las Vegas, by Mike Repass, Product Manager at Google who indicated it would be made available 'within weeks'.

Live at InterOp, Las Vegas Toby Martin, LANDesk Group (podcast)
By Ken Hess
May 20, 2009
BlogTalkRadio
Toby and I discuss the new Asset Lifecycle Manager (ALM) with special guest host, Ira Greenberg.

Interop does Ethernet many ways
By Rick Merritt
May 19, 2009
EE Times
The Ethernet Alliance will demonstrate and discuss versions of Ethernet with faster speeds, lower power and new features at the annual Interop show in Las Vegas this week. They have also kicked off talks aiming to rally support for a 40G serial Ethernet standard.

Interop Panel Discussion Preview: Honeymoon and Divorce: Changing SaaS Providers
By Michael Topalovich
May 19, 2009
SaaSkatoon
Interop is here, and based on the preparatory discussions that I've had with fellow panelists on the 'Honeymoon and Divorce: Changing SaaS Providers' session, I am excited about the topics we will be covering and the insight that Jerry Smith (Symphony Services), Rick Nucci (Boomi), and R "Ray" Wang (Forrester) will be bringing to the table. I will be approaching the topic of migrating both data and SaaS code / logic from PaaS providers with a service-oriented mindset, giving real world examples of migrating applications from the now-defunct Coghead platform to the Force.com platform by salesforce.com. Delivered Innovation migrated both customer apps and our own strategic marketing suite of applications to Force.com over a period of several months with great success. I am confident that the panel will provide a great deal of value to attendees, as the topic of SaaS / PaaS "lock-in" is becoming more relevant with the proliferation of cloud computing services.

HP, Microsoft Forge $180 Million UC Alliance
By Andrew R Hickey
May 19, 2009
ChannelWeb
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) (HP) and Microsoft have unveiled a four-year, $180 million global initiative to work together to deliver integrated unified communications (UC) and collaboration solutions. Unveiled Tuesday at Interop Las Vegas 2009, the two powerhouses said the deal is an extension of their 20-plus-year Frontline Partnership, through which the two companies collaborate for enterprise offerings.

@ Interop's Enterprise Cloud Summit: On demand economics panel
By Brenda Michelson
May 19, 2009
eBiz
This morning's focus in on the business case for cloud computing, ROI & migration. "What's the promise? Despite the downsides, there's little doubt that on-demand computing services are the future of both consumer and enterprise IT."

Interop: HP Entering IP Desk Phone Market, Kind Of
By J. Nicholas Hoover
May 19, 2009
InformationWeek
However, in a classic example of mixed messages, this morning HP was already on stage at its Interop keynote address dissing the general idea of IP phones. You can either spend $300 on an IP phone, an HP exec said while holding up what even from afar was obviously a Cisco IP desk phone, or you could shell out $300 for an HP Mini notebook that can run Microsoft Office Communications and a whole host of other apps.

http://blog.shoretel.com/2009/05/go-your-own-way-with-shoretel-at_19.html
By Gina Jacobs
May 19, 2009
Shoretel Blog
As Interop 2009 Las Vegas gets underway, ShoreTel is set to show participants how they can go their own way, with live demonstrations of our latest integration capabilities, mobility and personalization features, built-in reliability and industry-leading ease of use.

Interop: SAP Sheds Light On Cloud Computing Plans
By J. Nicholas Hoover
May 19, 2009
InformationWeek
In a keynote address and interview at the Interop Conference and Expo in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Sikka broadly outlined SAP's cloud computing strategy and discussed the technical and business challenges the company needs to solve before doing things like ramping up the number of customers served by Business ByDesign.

What's on Top at Interop
By Gilda Farvid
May 19, 2009
Absolute Architect
NetApp, of course. We are showcasing and demonstrating our interoperability with FCoE technology, breakthroughs in storage efficiency, and consolidating Ethernet storage. Vegas is not only the hot spot right now in terms of climate, but also for technology solutions that you should know about.

Interop: NetQoS Upgrading Performance Center
By W. David Gardner
May 19, 2009
InformationWeek
NetQoS on Tuesday said it has upgraded its NetQoS Performance Center with data collection, analysis, and reporting capabilities in its new version 5.0. The new capabilities, unveiled at the Interop Conference and Expo, are aimed at helping operations personnel, engineers, and executives deliver optimum application performance across networks.

Vidyo Shows Off New Room System and Better Pricing at Interop
By Stefania Viscusi
May 19, 2009
TMC.net
At Interop Las Vegas, happening this week, Vidyo (News - Alert), a provider of HD videoconferencing, will demonstrate its newly announced VidyoRoom HD-50. With this new room-based video solution, the company will offer users a much more cost efficient way to hold conferencing sessions. Priced at $1,995, the VidyoRoom HD-50 offers up to 720p resolution and is easy to configure and use.

Interop 2009 Show Winners
By Information Week Staff
May 19, 2009
Information Week
This year's champs come from every corner of IT -- cloud computing, virtualization, network management, security, wireless -- and more. Judges also handed out a green award, and picked a favorite startup before announcing the coveted Best Of Interop winner.

Interop: HP, Microsoft Show Fruits Of $180 Million UC Venture
By Andrew Hickey
May 19, 2009
ChannelWeb
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) and Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) set out Tuesday to prove their joint $180 million investment in unified communications and collaboration solutions isn't just talk. At Interop Las Vegas 2009, the two companies took the keynote stage to demonstrate the early fruits of the four-year endeavor, which will yield products and services around UC and collaboration.

Interop Preview: Networking Rules The Dynamic Data Center
By Mike Fratto
May 19, 2009
Information Week
Learn how virtualization and the coming Converged Enhanced Ethernet standard are making networking matter more than ever, at the Las Vegas conference May 17-21.

@ Interop's Enterprise Cloud Summit: Fireside Chat w/Lew Moorman, Rackspace | Mosso
By Brenda Michelson
May 19, 2009
eBiz
Alistair Croll is "interviewing" Lew Moorman, CSO, of Rackspace. I've captured some, but not all, of the conversation. AC: From your recent filing, you have 62,078 servers. 69% are cloud. Rest are managed. What's the difference?

The Case for Cloud Infrastructure: On-Demand Economics
By Alex Bowyer
May 19, 2009
BitCurrent
Day 2 of the Enterprise Cloud Summit kicked off with a panel session moderated by John Willis of Zabovo.

Interop: VMware To Bring Virtualization To Smartphones
By Andrew R. Hickey
May 19, 2009
ChannelWeb
VMware has already virtualized servers and the desktop, and now it is looking to go one step further and bring virtualization to a more mobile platform: the smartphone. At Interop Las Vegas 2009, VMware CTO Stephen Herrod said the mobile phone is becoming a more necessary business tool, making it nearly as important as the desktop.

Interop: Nortel Gets 'Back To Basics' With New Enterprise Gear
By Andrew R. Hickey
May 19, 2009
ChannelWeb
Nortel Networks (NYSE:NT), which is still entrenched in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, is honing its focus on data networking and eyeing the enterprise to recapture its relevance in the market. At Interop Las Vegas 2009, the struggling Toronto-based vendor and former telecom powerhouse said it's getting back to basics, building innovative gear to drive the network.

SAP CTO: Our Customers Are Creating 'cloud Economies'
By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service
May 19, 2009
PC World
SAP is already a major player in the cloud computing world because its customers are using their ERP (enterprise resource planning) implementations to create "cloud economies" that expose system data to customers and partners, chief technology officer Vishal Sikka [cq] said Tuesday during a keynote address at the Interop conference in Las Vegas.

Big Fat Interop Photo Show: HP Mainstreams Unified Comm, Show Floor Shots
By Alex Wolfe
May 19, 2009
InformationWeek
OK, so I only actually have four photos so far. But they're fresh from the morning keynotes, where HP (NYSE: HPQ) announced its unified communications alliance with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), and VMware discussed how virtualization has become a serious enabling technology for cloud computer. I'll be tweeting (@awolfe58) and posting more photos throughout Interop. Click ahead to see the first batch.

Interop CIO Boot Camp: How CIOs Can Drive Innovation
By Bob Evans
May 19, 2009
Global CIO Blog
Interop Las Vegas this week featured a 2-day workshop for aspiring CIOs and one presenter described how CIOs can actively and effectively promote innovation within their organizations. Nationwide Financial Services CIO Emeritus Bruce Barnes says a big part of the formula is quite simple: people do what you pay them to do.

Interop: Virtualization Ushers In Data Center Efficiencies
By Charles Babcock
May 18, 2009
InformationWeek
VMware and Citrix Systems (NSDQ: CTXS) are competing head-to-head to gain ground in the next round of virtualization in the enterprise, but they're going about it in decidedly different ways. Their competition, along with rapidly emerging third-party toolsets for managing virtual machines, will be evident in the keynotes and sessions of Interop in Las Vegas, May 17 - 21.

Interop 2009 - Las Vegas
By Brad Egeland
May 18, 2009
Product Management Tips
Interop is the leading global technology event, with the most comprehensive IT Conference and Exhibition available. It takes place four times a year in four different locations. This year Interop takes place in Tokyo in June, Mumbai, India in October, New York in November, and Las Vegas this week (May 17-21).

@ Interop's Enterprise Cloud Summit
By Brenda Michelson
May 18, 2009
eBiz
As I mentioned last week, I'll be live-blogging and tweeting from the Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop today and tomorrow. The agenda is a mix of speakers, panels and an interspersed 'real-world' demo series, where representatives from Amazon, RightScale, SOASTA, 10Gen, Google, and Skytap have 10-minute slots to show their cloud wares. I'll probably blog the speakers & panels, tweet the demos.

@ Interop's Enterprise Cloud Summit: Opening Remarks, Alistair Croll
By Brenda Michelson
May 18, 2009
eBiz
"While clouds are awesome, they aren't for everyone. Better said, look different for enterprises versus startups." After a bunch of housekeeping, Alistair is now talking cloud. Starts with, Nick Carr's Big Switch and electricity analogy. (required reading for cloud speakers, apparently).

10 Hot Security Products You'll See At Interop Las Vegas
May 18, 2009
ChannelWeb
Interop Las Vegas is here again and security vendors are ramping up their wares. Here's a sample of the latest security products you'll see on the show floor. [May 18, 2009]

Interop Reports Optimistic Attendees
By Sean Michael Kerner
May 18, 2009
Enterprise Networking Planet
When the going gets tough, the tough goes to ... Las Vegas? Interop Las Vegas 2009 gets underway this week, with vendors big and small talking up their networking wares. With big vendors like Cisco and Juniper reporting declining revenues as customers delay or put off networking purchases, Interop is coming at a challenging time for vendors and their users.

Enterprise Cloud Summit is Underway
By Alex Bowyer
May 18, 2009
BitCurrent
Alistair Croll today opened the Enterprise Cloud Summit in Las Vegas by drawing analogies between cloud computing and the early days of electricity generation.

@ Interop's Enterprise Cloud Summit: Fireside Chat w/Amazon's Werner Vogels
By Brenda Michelson
May 18, 2009
eBiz
Alistair Croll is "interviewing" Werner Vogels in Fireside chat. Some of the conversation points: AC: Where all are the enterprise use cases? WV: Talks about enterprise IT challenges - thousands of enterprise application, cost, time to value. Then, potential cloud benefits: cost, agility. Says enterprises are doing small, or quiet, pilots right now. Will we hear more in the future? Yes, but it is early.

Enterprise Cloud Summit - Morning Recap #1
By John Treadway
May 18, 2009
CloudBzz
This morning kicked off the Enterprise Cloud Summit @ Interop in Las Vegas. Allistair Croll from Bitcurrent is running the sessions today and started us off with a fairly interesting counterpoint to Nick Carr's assertion that computing is quickly morphing to a model analogous to an electric utility. His points about the dearth of standards and interoperability, and the fact that so much of computing requirements vary from consumer to consumer, make sense. In contrast, electricity is a standard, fully interoperable, and generally homogenized.

Enterprise Cloud Summit - Morning Recap #1
By Sean Michael Kerner
May 18, 2009
InternetNews.com
From the 'cloud's have a dark side?' files: LAS VEGAS. The cloud, that great idea that could save IT, lower costs and speeds everything up has a dark side. According to a panel at Interop's Enterprise Cloud Summit, the dark side is something to be aware off and isn't necessarily a barrier to adoption.

Energy Camp @ Interop Today in Vegas
By Wilson Korol
May 18, 2009
Nortel Greenroots
Today, I am please to let people know about Energy Camp @ Interop, at which Nortel is the keynote sponsor. Nortel's Steve Given (who has authored a few guest posts on this site) is giving the keynote, focusing on energy efficiency of networking equipment and the benefits of moving business from the energy intensive buildings that are de rigor of the modern business world to the virtual world, which can be more than 20x times more efficient.

Interop: Google Amazon S3 Killer coming soon?
By Sean Michael Kerner
May 18, 2009
InternetNews.com
From the 'remember Gdrive?' files: LAS VEGAS. Google's answer to Amazon's S3 cloud storage service is coming 'within weeks' according to Mike Repass, Product Manager at Google. Repass was on the stage at the Interop Enterprise Cloud summit talking about Google's AppEngine and related cloud initiatives.

Google App Engine; towards an entirely abstracted platform
By Alex Bowyer
May 18, 2009
Bitcurrent
Mike Repass, Product Manager of Google App Engine took part in a fireside chat with Alistair as the final session of Enterprise Cloud Summit today. A wide variety of topics were covered.

Joel Snyder discusses Network Access Control Day at Interop Las Vegas
By Shamus McGillicuddy
May 18, 2009
SearchNetworking.com
Monday is NAC Day at Interop. This day-long mini-conference at Interop Las Vegas dives deep into all things network access control. The event is an opportunity for networking professionals to get a solid technical understanding of this maturing network security technology. SearchNetworking.com spoke with NAC Day chairman Joel Snyder and got a preview of what attendees can expect to get out of the event. Snyder is a senior partner at the Tuscon, Ariz.-based consulting firm Opus One.

When Interop Opens Next Week in Las Vegas, TechWeb Will Announce the First Virtual Interop
By Randy Sands
May 17, 2009
Virtual Edge.org
Although Interop event producers TechWeb (part of United Business Media), had a virtual strategy in the works to supplement the physical event, it was audience and sponsor demand that drove them to plan and begin producing a virtual Interop in just about 5-6 weeks. The first virtual Interop will take place June 16th and potential exhibitors just got the call for participation two weeks ago.

When Interop Opens Next Week in Las Vegas, TechWeb Will Announce the First Virtual Interop
By Bob Evans
May 17, 2009
InformationWeek Global CIO Blog
Top of mind for CIOs these days are some technologies with the potential to not only attack the dreaded 80/20 ratio and lower the cost of infrastructure (LTCOI) but also trigger some transformative capabilities across the customer-driven enterprise: cloud computing, data-center strategies, SaaS, mobility, IT automation, videoconferencing, unified communications, and much more. And it's all at Interop, starting today.

Looking for Linux: InterOp Las Vegas
By Ken Hess
May 17, 2009
DaniWeb
This week I'll be at InterOp Las Vegas looking for the latest and coolest Linux-based technologies that InterOp exhibitors have to offer. My favorites are certainly the "new innovators." New innovators are small companies who've developed their own products and are trying to get noticed in the high-tech space. These are the best and most enjoyable people to talk to at such shows.

Four In 10 Interop Attendees Increasing IT Spending
By Antone Gonsalves
May 15, 2009
InformationWeek
More than four in 10 preregistered attendees of the Interop trade show said they plan to spend more on technology within their organization this year compared with 2008, a survey released Thursday showed.

IT spending set to increase among Interop attendees?
By Denise Dubie
May 15, 2009
Network World
Many enterprise IT managers heading to Interop in Las Vegas this week say they are seeing potential increases in their IT budgets, while show planners prepare to present a conference agenda full of information on how to cut costs and optimize existing resources.

Interop network all about redundancy
By Jon Brodkin
May 15, 2009
Network World
When you're responsible for the network that powers Interop Las Vegas - one of the premier networking technology conferences in the world - avoiding downtime has to be one of the top priorities.

INTEROP 2009 for K12
By Scott Fosseen
May 15, 2009
INTEROP 2009 for K12 Blog
Welcome to my Blog about the 2009 INTEROP conference in Las Vegas. This will be my 12th year attending the show. I have seen it at the height of the technology boom, to the depths of the technology crash. Still every year I manage to find new information that has benefited the school districts I work with.

Q&A: Jim Metzler previews the networking track at Interop
By Shamus McGillicuddy
May 14, 2009
SearchNetworking.com
Although Interop is much more than a networking show these days, it still has a strong program of networking topics. Dr. Jim Metzler, of Metzler, Ashton & Associates, will chair the networking track at this year's Interop Las Vegas.

Cloud Computing Takes Center Stage
By J. Nicholas Hoover
May 13, 2009
InformationWeek
Cloud computing will play a strong supporting role at Interop Las Vegas this year, where the concurrent Enterprise Cloud Summit will showcase to CIOs and senior IT management the tools needed to tackle enterprise cloud computing.

Interop Preview: Networking Rules The Dynamic Data Center
By Mike Fratto
May 12, 2009
InformationWeek
Your network in a few years won't be the static infrastructure it is today. This year's Interop will showcase a number of conference sessions to get you up to speed on new strategies in networking, data center design, and operations. Vendors will be announcing and demonstrating the latest products for network management, orchestration, and connectivity.

Ixia to demo 100G Ethernet at Interop
By Jim Duffy
May 12, 2009
Computerworld
At Interop next week, test vendor Ixia says it will transmit and receive Ethernet traffic at 100Gbps through a CFP Multi-Source Agreement optical module.

Interop Preview: The Switch Is On
By Craig Matsumoto
May 11, 2009
Light Reading
Interop doesn't start until next week, and Ethernet Expo: Europe 2009 is still a few days away, but the screaming starts now, as three of the more recognizable names in Ethernet are popping up with big-deal announcements today.

Search, Portals, and SharePoint at Interop-Vegas
By Tony Byrne
May 11, 2009
CMS Watch
Next week you can find Alan and I at Interop 2009 in Las Vegas. We'll have a booth there to show some of CMS Watch's latest research, so feel free to stop by and say hello.

Expand Networks named finalist at Interop Las Vegas
By Globes Correspondent
May 11, 2009
Globes
The Virtual Accelerator solution of WAN optimization firm Expand Networks is on the finalist shortlist for Best of Interop, Las Vegas 2009 in the performance optimization category. Las Vegas is one of several Interop forums in a series of technology sector conventions

Parting the clouds at the RSA conference
By Mathias Thurman
May 11, 2009
Computerworld
Other than various one- or two-day seminars, I attend two main conferences each year, the RSA Conference and Interop. I like RSA because its focus is on security. And I like Interop because its focus isn't on security.

Interop Preview: Cloud Computing, ROI In Spotlight
By Paul McDougall
May 11, 2009
InformationWeek
Times are tight, and companies may be cutting back on business travel. But that shouldn't be a reason to skip Interop, May 17-21 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, according to the conference's general manager, Lenny Heymann.

The View from the Other Side of Interop
By Lori MacVittie
May 8, 2009
Web 2.0 Journal
Everyone who is involved in networking, application networking, cloud computing, and virtualization knows about and is probably planning some kind of presence at Interop. It is "the" event for a variety of inter-related industries, all revolving around network-something.

Interop aims to tackle ITs economic pain
By Denise Dubie
May 7, 2009
Network World
Interop General Manager Lenny Heymann explains why the network industry trade show has survived more than 20 years and how Interop will soldier on through another tough economic time to help IT pros do more with less.

A week and a half til' Interop Vegas
By n/a
May 6, 2009
Network Performance Daily
So I'm personally staying back in Austin - NetQoS will have a presence, however, in both Booth #663 and Pod #1 in the Cisco Solutions pavilion. We will be bringing along the camera, so even if you don't make it to Interop, you might be able to catch some of our presentations later when we digitize the footage and put it on the 'Net.

Interop soldiers on in the face of a bad economy, swine flu
By Tim Greene
May 4, 2009
Network World
Interop Las Vegas faces challenges because of restricted IT budgets nationwide, the poor economy and the unpredictable impact of a swine flu epidemic, but the show is forging ahead with new programs including a segment dedicated to cloud computing.

The Network World Las Vegas Interop 2009 Planning Guide
By Tim Greene
May 4, 2009
Network World
Businesses are pressured from the outside to meet security compliance standards such as the Payment Card Industry standards and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, but compliance doesn't necessarily mean security.

Interop is off to a good start, my schedule is getting full
By Larry Chaffin
April 29, 2009
Network World
I had the chance not too long ago to chat with the GM of Interop on a conference call; he told me that he was really not seeing a drop in attendance. I am not sure about that until I get there but the vendors are sure coming out for the event. I have had over 40 vendors contact me for meeting and briefings while at Interop.

Roundup: Enterprise Cloud Summit
By Rich Miller
April 21, 2009
Data Center Knowledge
One of the featured programs at Interop Las Vegas was the Enterprise Cloud Summit. BitCurrent has extensive writeups of the event. Here are several that may be of particular interest:

Interop Las Vegas 2009 Announces Keynotes
By David Hamilton
April 16, 2009
Web Host Industry Review
Five weeks from opening, business technology event Interop Las Vegas 2009, produced by media group TechWeb, has announced its keynote lineup, which includes industry leaders from top companies such as Hewlett-Packard, VMware, Cisco, SAP and IBM.

Enterprise Cloud Summit Coming to Las Vegas, May 18
By Tom Donaghue
April 1, 2009
Integration Developer News
The Enterprise Cloud Summit at Interop, which will focus on how traditional enterprises can adopt cloud computing models, will be held May 18 and 19 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.

Interop aims to tackle IT's economic pain
By Denise Dubie
April 1, 2009
Network World
Interop General Manager Lenny Heymann explains why the network industry trade show has survived more than 20 years and how Interop will soldier on through another tough economic time to help IT pros do more with less.

INTEROP Day 4 Recap
By Douglas Haider
April 1, 2009
Computer World

Some of the Shows Will Go On
By Kachina Dunn
March 26, 2009
IT Business Edge
head of Interop in Vegas this May, I assigned one of my editors the task of talking with some of the 400-plus exhibitors slated for the trade show about the decision-making process that led them to make the commitment in the face of tight budgets for marketing, travel and the like.

Interop Insider #4 (MP3): Arista Networks Positions Itself As "The" 10-Gb Networker Of The Clouds
By David Berlind
March 17, 2009
InformationWeek
Although she dodged the question at the end of my podcast interview (below), Arista Networks CEO Jayshree Ullal can't help but think that history is going to repeat itself. FollowingCisco (NSDQ: CSCO)'s acquisition of Crescendo Networks in the '90s (where she worked), Ullal ended up working for Cisco for 15 years. Notwithstanding its newly announced Intel-based blade servers, Cisco usually prefers to buy than build. If everything Ullal says about Arista's 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches and "the cloud's" appetite for them is true, she'll probably end up at Cisco again (by way of acquisition).

Interop Insider (MP3): Virtualization, Cloud, Green IT, & Security Are Major Themes At Upcoming Interop
By David Berlind
February 27, 2009
InformationWeek
I've decided to start publishing a new series of podcasts that I'm calling Interop Insider. After all, in addition to publishing InformationWeek, TechWeb also is the producer of some great events like Interop. So, given that us InformationWeekers can get an inside track on what's happening with our sister events, why not jump on that track early and develop an audio series that can be heard over time, or piled in its entirety into your iPod for en-route (to Vegas) listening? My first guest for this episode? Interop head honcho Lenny Heymann.

Interop Las Vegas Spurs 3 of 4 to Buy
By David Hamilton
February 26, 2009
Web Host Industry Review
Global technology event Interop (www.interop.com) Las Vegas 2008 has persuaded more than 75 percent of business technology buyers that attended the event to made purchases within six months, according to a recent survey by TechWeb (www.techweb.com), the IT news and information firm that produces Interop and publishes Information Week.

Interop Las Vegas: Cloud Week
By Alistair Croll
February 10, 2009
BitCurrent
Interop Vegas is turning into cloud week. I put together a quick schedule of the event, spanning four days in Las Vegas.

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