Networking Conference and Expo
As recently as a couple of years ago not much was happening relative to the deployment of either new networking technologies and services or new network management functionality. Suddenly that has all changed. Driven in part by the virtualization of servers, the traditional data center LAN design is rapidly becoming obsolete. In addition, new technologies are being deployed to drastically improve the price performance of Internet based services and to enable the massive scalability and control of networks. At the same time that new networking technologies and services are being deployed, a wide range of new network management tools is being brought to market. These tools are targeting both traditional network management problems as well as the new generation of problems created by virtualization and cloud computing.
| Wednesday, October 20 | |
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10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 5 By adopting server virtualization we’ve reduced the number of physical servers in the data center but the proliferation of separate storage, data, management and VMotion networks has made the back of our server racks look like an explosion in a spaghetti factory. Now that 10Gigabit Ethernet is widely available several solutions have arisen to consolidate network and storage I/O onto a smaller number of higher bandwidth connections. With consolidated networking users can stop playing the game of one cable, two cable, orange cable, blue cable. This session will explore the solutions available to server and storage administrators for reducing cable clutter and consolidating network and storage I/O. Ranging from Fibre Channel NPIV and using vLANs to segregate data traffic to cutting edge technologies including Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and PCIe extension, We’ll look at the technologies, the players, the politics and how users can integrate new technologies into their short and long term planning.
Topics include:
• I/O virtualization for management and security
• The state of FCoE
• End of Row vs. Top of Rack configurations
• External I/O virtualization solutions
• 10Gig Ethernet, CEE, DCB, DCE – Ethernet for the Data Center
Speaker - Howard Marks, Founder and Chief Scientist, Networks Are Our Lives Inc! Howard Marks is the Founder and Chief Scientist at Networks Are Our Lives, Inc! a Hoboken NJ based networking consultancy. In over 25 years of consulting he has designed and implemented networks, management systems and Internet strategies at organizations including American Express, JP Morgan, Borden Foods, US Tobacco, BBDO Worldwide and Foxwoods Resort Casino. Mr. Marks has been a speaker at industry conferences including Comnet, PC Expo, Neworld+Interop and Microsoft’s TechEd since 1990 on topics including LAN and WAN infrastructure, systems management and web hosting. He is the author of Networking Windows and co-author of Windows NT Unleashed (Sams) along with over 100 articles in publications including PC Magazine, Network Computing and Network World. He is currently the "Backup and Business Continuity" blogger at InformationWeek.com | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 1 The media is overflowing with discussions of the benefits of adopting cloud computing and enabling technologies such as virtualization. What has been missing from that discussion is an analysis of what has to happen to the network to enable it to support cloud computing. For example, a new LAN access layer has emerged that is comprised of the vSwitches embedded within the hypervisor software. However, these vSwitches typically have poor management scalability and limited traffic visibility. Today’s typical WAN can not effectively support the dynamic movement of VMs nor cloud bursting. It also is not experiencing the same type of price reductions as are computing and storage resources. In this session, Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Associates will describe in detail the set of challenges created by cloud computing and will also provide an overview of the emerging networking, optimization and management technologies that hold the potential to mitigate these challenges. Speaker - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: 1 Trends such as the adoption of virtualization are fundamentally changing how IT organizations need to architect their data center LAN. For example, the introduction of server virtualization and blade servers means that the traditional three tier data center LAN is expanding to where it now has as many as five layers. These extra layers can introduce unacceptable cost, complexity and delay. While all of the LAN switching vendors are aware of the problem, they have different approaches to solving it. In this session, Mike Fratto, Editor, Network Computing and Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Associates will identify the emerging approaches to architecting a data center LAN and will discuss the pros and cons of each. Moderator - Mike Fratto, Managing Editor/Labs, Network Computing Mike is Managing Editor, Labs, for InformationWeek. He previously was a Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including NetWorld+Interop, MISTI, the Internet Security Conference, as well as to local groups. He also teaches a network security graduate course at Syracuse University. Prior to Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. | |
3:15 PM–4:15 PM Location: 1 Having analyzed the emerging approaches to architecting a data center LAN it is now time to drill down into which technologies you should incorporate into your new data center LAN. In this PowerPoint free session, Mike Fratto and Jim Metzler will question LAN switching vendors about a number of topics including the pros and cons of FCoE vs. iSCSI; the viability of separating the LAN switch’s control and the data planes; the pros and cons of virtual switching and multi-chassis LAGs; the need for services such as QoS or security; as well as the alignment of each application VM with its own virtual NIC and virtual switch port. Moderator - Mike Fratto, Managing Editor/Labs, Network Computing Mike is Managing Editor, Labs, for InformationWeek. He previously was a Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including NetWorld+Interop, MISTI, the Internet Security Conference, as well as to local groups. He also teaches a network security graduate course at Syracuse University. Prior to Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. | |
| Thursday, October 21 | |
10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 1 Experts agree that the IPv4 address space will be depleted in about two years. In this session, John Curran, the president and chief executive officer of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), will identify the challenges that IPv4 depletion presents to networks and the Internet community as a whole, and how organizations can prepare for these challenges. The session will discuss the considerations for IPv6 adoption, as well as how to get involved in the community-driven public policy process that dictates how the remaining IPv4 address space is allocated. Speaker - John Curran, President & CEO, ARIN John Curran is the President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), responsible for leading the organization in its mission of managing the distribution of Internet number resources in its geographic region, which includes Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States. He was also a founder of ARIN and served as its Chairman from inception in 1997 through early 2009. John’s experience in the Internet industry includes serving as CTO and COO for ServerVault, CTO for XO Communications, and CTO for BBN/GTE Internetworking. | |
10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 3 Video conferencing is arguably the toughest application your enterprise network must support. It gobbles bandwidth while demanding priority treatment (QoS). Designing the right network solution to support enterprise video conferencing is key to its acceptance as a business tool. This session will explore technical aspects of designing, testing, and managing an enterprise network to support high quality video conferencing and telepresence -- and dive deeply into security, LAN QoS, and WAN QoS issues. Speaker - John Bartlett, Voice Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast Inc. John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has 32 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 1 Given the combination of the economic malaise and the sensationalism that surrounds topics such as cloud computing and server virtualization, it is possible to surmise that nothing of significance is happening in the networking space. Nothing could be further from the truth. Venture capitalists and others have been funding significant investments in a wide range of networking technologies and the results of those investments are beginning to hit the market. The panelists in this fast-paced, PowerPoint-free session will discuss some of the most promising emerging networking technologies. Attend this session to get an early look at what could be some significant networking breakthroughs. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Panelist - Alex Henthorn-Iwane, VP of Product Marketing, Packet Design Alex Henthorn-Iwane joined Packet Design in September 2004 and brings 19 years of systems engineering, product management and marketing experience in network infrastructure, management and security technologies and products. Prior to joining Packet Design, he was Senior Director of Product Management and Product Marketing at CoSine Communications, a maker of virtualized edge routing and security infrastructure equipment for the Service Provider market. Previously, Henthorn-Iwane was Director of Product Management and Marketing at Corona Networks, Lucent Technologies and Livingston Enterprises (acquired by Lucent); and held systems engineering management posts with Fibronics America. He holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. Panelist - Keith Morris, VP of Marketing, Talari Networks With more than 20 years in networking industry marketing and engineering roles, Keith provides Talari with his strong sense of strategic planning in leading the company's marketing, product management, and business development efforts. Prior to Talari, Keith was most recently vice president of marketing and customer engineering for multimedia routing technology vendor Ubicom. He formerly served as senior director of product management and marketing at Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC), where he was instrumental in developing AMCC's broadband access strategy and securing the company's position as the market share leader in the network processor market. Previously, Keith was director of marketing at network processor pioneer MMC Networks (acquired by AMCC) and also held positions in engineering and management at Fujitsu and GEC/Plessey. Keith holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) degree in Electronic Computer Systems and a Post Graduate Diploma in Engineering from the University of Salford, U.K. Panelist - Raj Kanaya, CEO and Co-Founder, Infineta Systems Raj Kanaya brings a long track record of general management and market development success to Infineta Systems. As CEO, Raj is responsible for the overall vision, direction, and revenue attainment for the company. Previously, Raj was VP of product strategy and alliances for the Application Networking Group at Citrix Systems. He joined Citrix though its acquisition of NetScaler where he served as VP of product management for a product line that went from sub-$2 million to $60+ million in revenues over three years. Raj was a GM of a BU at Lucent and led business development at Nexsi Systems. Earlier in his career, he was a Bain & Co. consultant where he advised large companies in technology and LBO funds on turnarounds, new market entries, and acquisitions/divestitures. Raj has an M.B.A. from Stanford University and earned his B.S. in computer science magna cum laude from UCSD. | |
| Friday, October 22 | |
10:15 AM–11:15 AM Location: 1 Physical servers now support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be provisioned and moved between servers in a matter of minutes. There is just one huge problem – today the supporting network and management infrastructure is still largely static and physical. So while it is possible to move a VM between data centers in a matter of minutes, it can take days or weeks to get the supporting infrastructure in place. The panelists on this session will discuss solutions to this problem including new standards like IF-MAP, automation of functionality such as IP address management and the deployment of a new class of management product – the orchestration engine. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Panelist - Ken Ferderer, Chief Technology Officer, LineSider Technologies, Inc. Mr. Ferderer's career in information technology and telecom spans more than 13 years. Most recently he was Chief Information Officer for TelCove, overseeing their Information Technology department, systems, and strategy. Prior to Telcove, he served as Vice President, Chief Information Officer for Priority Telecom, a telecommunications company headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In his career, he has also held other senior-level IT positions at companies such as Cignal Global Communications, Level (3) Communications, and PKS Information Services. Mr. Ferderer received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from DeVry Institute of Technology in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1991. An experienced and widely respected industry professional, Mr. Ferderer was named by Computerworld Magazine among their 2007 list of Premier 100 IT Leaders. Panelist - Lou Nardo, Director of Product Management, Infoblox Panelist - Ken Oestreich, VP of Marketing, Egenera Inc. Ken Oestreich is VP Marketing for Egenera. With over 20 years in enterprise software and data center automation, he’s now helping define the market for converged infrastructure and unified computing. Prior to Egenera he led Product Marketing at Cassatt Corp., where he developed the market for utility computing and internal cloud computing. Previously, Ken was with Sun Microsystems, driving business management for an incubator business unit, coordinating Java and software strategy, and driving Developer Marketing. He began at Sun developing the market for CORBA middleware and web services. Ken also helped found the Liberty Alliance, an industry-wide body defining federated identity standards for the internet. Prior to Sun, he held marketing and sales development positions in early-stage technology and consulting companies. Ken began his career in Electrical Engineering, controlling adaptive optics with Litton Industries. He holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia University. | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 1 The role of network management has fundamentally changed. It is no longer just about the availability of networks. In now includes managing the performance of networks and applications. In addition, the continued deployment of new functionality, such as mobility and the virtualization of just about every component of IT, is making the task of network management significantly more challenging. Thankfully there has been a lot of investment in network management and the panelists in this fast paced, PowerPoint-free session will discuss some of the most promising of the emerging network management technologies. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Panelist - Steven Shalita, Vice President of Marketing, NetScout Systems Steven Shalita is Vice President, Marketing, and leads the global marketing activities. He is an experienced marketing strategist with more than 20 years of technology marketing leadership experience in the voice and data networking and telecommunications industries. He has a proven track record of delivering results and growing revenues by connecting technology with business needs to deliver customer value. Mr. Shalita returned to NetScout in July of 2008, and was previously Director, Product Marketing at NetScout from 1997 through 1999. During his time away, he held marketing leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. At Alcatel-Lucent, he led the product marketing and strategy efforts for the company’s $1.2 Billion service provider router and network management portfolio. At Redback Networks, he led product and technical marketing activities, including the introduction of the company’s entrance into the metro Ethernet market. During his nearly six years at Cisco Systems, he served in a series of increasingly strategic assignments, including leading enterprise networking marketing efforts across Europe, Middle East and Africa and leading worldwide strategy and marketing activities for Cisco’s $9 billion LAN switching portfolio where he was a driving force in establishing Cisco’s global leadership position in the Enterprise network market. He has extensive global experience in a broad range of networking, and network management technologies for Enterprise, SMB and Service Provider segments. Panelist - Patrick Ancipink, Vice President of Product Marketing, Service Assurance, CA Panelist - Jesse Rothstein, CEO, Extrahop Networks Jesse Rothstein is the CEO and co-founder of ExtraHop Networks, where his technical vision and expertise in enterprise networking give ExtraHop a competitive edge in the industry. With a world-class team under his leadership, Jesse is responsible for the technical architecture of the innovative ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance platform. Jesse co-founded ExtraHop after a six-year tenure at F5 Networks where he was a Senior Software Architect and co-inventor of the TMOS platform. Jesse was the architect and project lead for the BIG-IP v9 development effort and the technical lead for frameworks, clustering, and performance. Prior to F5, Jesse worked in product development at Motive Communications and the Trilogy Development Group. Jesse specializes in designing and implementing high-performance networking products. Jesse graduated from Rice University with bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Panelist - Eric Bear, Director of Product Management, Visual Network Systems | |
Workshops
Get in-depth Networking education in full day workshops on Monday and Tuesday before the conference.
| Monday, October 18 | |
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9:00 AM–4:30 PM Location: TBA Network utilization and error monitoring, throughput measurement, and device monitoring - these can all be done using free Open Source tools available today on the Internet! This workshop focuses on a handful of tools that can be used for troubleshooting a wide variety of network and application problems. Who Should Attend Instructor - Mike Pennacchi, Owner, Network Protocol Specialists Mike Pennacchi is owner of Network Protocol Specialists, a network analysis and training company based in Seattle, Washington. His company specializes in analyzing network performance problems for companies throughout the United States. He has taught at Interop since 1997 and has received the event's Instructor Award as highest ranking instructor three of those years. Pennacchi brings his experience as a network analyst into the classroom and assists students in understanding how to fix problems in their own networks. | |
| Tuesday, October 19 | |
9:00 AM–4:30 PM Location: TBA Wireshark® has become one of the most popular protocol analyzers available to network administrators today. While it provides an easy means to capture packets, it is not always easy to interpret the contents of those packets. In this session we will take a detailed look at how to reliably capture and analyze network traffic. We will use trace file examples to demonstrate a number of common network protocols. Examples will be given of how the network traffic should look when it is working properly and what it looks like when it is not working properly. Instructor - Mike Pennacchi, Owner, Network Protocol Specialists Mike Pennacchi is owner of Network Protocol Specialists, a network analysis and training company based in Seattle, Washington. His company specializes in analyzing network performance problems for companies throughout the United States. He has taught at Interop since 1997 and has received the event's Instructor Award as highest ranking instructor three of those years. Pennacchi brings his experience as a network analyst into the classroom and assists students in understanding how to fix problems in their own networks. | |
Free Networking Sessions
All Interop attendees can choose from a full calendar of free sessions Wednesday and Thursday including the following covering Networking:
| Wednesday, October 20 | |
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11:00 AM–11:45 AM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
12:00 PM–12:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
1:00 PM–1:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
2:00 PM–2:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
3:00 PM–3:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
| Thursday, October 21 | |
11:00 AM–11:45 AM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
12:00 PM–12:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
1:00 PM–1:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
1:00 PM–1:45 PM Location: Free Ed Room 2 With most network management and analysis solutions you slice and dice data to deal with network traffic from 10 Gigabit (10G) network segments. You’re forced to chose between real-time network performance statistics and network forensics. Learn best practices for achieving real-time visibility and storage of historical network data. Speaker - Joe Habib, Director of Global Services, WildPackets Mr. Joe Habib is a seasoned executive with proven expertise in Information Technology, eCommerce, and Systems Management. Joe possesses over 15 years experience in designing, developing, and delivering technology and information management solutions. He has managed large information and network services for several Silicon Valley and international companies. Joe holds a BA in Business and Management Information Systems with an emphasis on Telecommunications from San Jose State University. Joe holds certifications with Cisco and Microsoft. | |
2:00 PM–2:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
3:00 PM–3:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
Networking Exhibitors
See all the latest IT solutions at Interop's comprehensive expo, with 150+ technology companies including leading Networking vendors.
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 AdRem Software, Inc.
AdRem Software makes award-winning network management software trusted by thousands of engineers worldwide. Discover our network monitoring, network mapping, inventory, and free network tools today! Address Website Products/Services Offered
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628 |
| American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
ARIN distributes Internet number resources, including IP addresses, in Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States. Applying the principles of stewardship, ARIN allocates Internet number resources; develops consensus-based policies; and facilitates the advancement of the Internet through information and educational outreach. http://www.arin.net. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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149 |
APCON, Inc.
  ProviderAPCON's aggregation, filtering and switching technology enables any IT group to share an inventory of monitoring and security devices. With over 3,000 chassis installed in networks spanning 30 countries, APCON has become the new standard by which organizations are planning their network monitoring deployments. To learn more, visit www.apcon.com. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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554 |
Avocent, a division of Emerson Network Power
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523 |
| Bat Blue Corporation
Bat Blue Corporation provides network consultancy, IP services and security solutions. Bat Blue's “In-the-Cloud” offering, CloudSec, eliminates capital and hardware costs, reduces risk and benefits from a centralized interface. BlueNET IP network provides a true 10Gig network that leverages terabit carrier-grade fully redundant infrastructure. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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713 |
Brocade
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717 |
BT Diamond IP
 ProviderBT Diamond IP is a leading provider of software and appliance products and services that help customers effectively manage complex IP networks. Our next-generation IP management solutions help businesses more efficiently manage IP address space across mid-to-very large sized enterprise and service provider networks. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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723 |
| Ciphertex
Ciphertex offers powerful, affordable data security products and services to companies and businesses around the world. Our products feature the highest levels of hardware−based encryption solutions.Today´s larger digital media capacities, increased data mobility, and growing security concerns demand comprehensive, endpoint, hardware−based encryption. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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737 |
Cisco
 Cisco unveils capabilities to maximize participation anytime, anywhere, to any device, securely, reliably and seamlessly, and delivered through virtualized and cloud-based services. With innovations for the network and the data center, Cisco delivers new technologies, solutions, and services that enable transformational business models. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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121 |
CXtec
 CXtec helps keep your network up and your costs down. Our equal2new® certified pre-owned networking and voice hardware reduces the cost of your technology infrastructure while our RapidCare® advance hardware replacement offering gives you maximum uptime. One call to us and you’ll see why there’s only one CXtec. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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617 |
| Cymphonix
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724 |
| Datacom Systems
Datacom Systems is a leading manufacturer of data capture infrastructure for increased network access and visibility. A critical part of the computer network, data capture infrastructure provides copies of network traffic to monitoring tools for network, security, and application analysis. Datacom products are compatible with all vendor's monitoring deployments. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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250 |
Dell
 Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to its customers and uses that insight to make technology simpler and create innovative solutions that deliver reliable, long-term value. For more information visit www.dell.com. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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337 |
| Diskeeper Corporation
Diskeeper's family of innovative products are relied upon by more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies and more than 67% of The Forbes Global 100, as well as thousands of enterprises, government agencies, independent software vendors (ISVs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and home offices worldwide. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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725 |
EMC Corporation
 EMC Ionix (formerly Smarts and Voyence) network management solutions improve availability and performance, and increase operational efficiency—which save you time and money. They do this by automating root-cause analysis; service and infrastructure monitoring; network configuration, change, and compliance management (including Vblocks); and reporting across physical, virtual & Cloud environments. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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345 |
Enterasys Networks and PTS Data Center Solutions
 ProviderAbout PTS Data Center Solutions Experts for Your Always Available Data Center. PTS Data Center Solutions specializes in the business strategy, planning, designing, engineering, constructing, commissioning, implementing, maintaining, and managing of data center and computer room environments from both the facility and IT perspectives. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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Force10 Networks
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417 |
| Geist Manufacturing
Geist specializes in 15-120 Amp PDUs, with 1000+ standard units including monitored, switched, environmental and IP based products. Geist also offers rapid response production of custom PDUs. From in-house chassis production to an on-site UL testing lab, Geist's cohesive abilities result in the lowest lead times in the PDU industry. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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242 |
Gigamon
 Gigamon provides secure access and complete visibility to all your data anywhere, anytime, while lowering the total cost of network management. Gigamon’s product suite seamlessly aggregates, filters and replicates traffic of interest from 1Gbps and 10Gbps tapped links and mirror ports to multiple monitoring and security tools. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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630 |
| HotLava Systems
HotLava Systems designs and manufactures innovative, server class multi-port Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapters that meet the bandwidth, space, and power consumption requirements of the most demanding networks. Our products are natively-supported by virtually all operating systems and deliver more productivity by reducing or eliminating network interface congestion. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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823 |
HP
 ProviderHP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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| IPC Technologies, Inc/ShoreTel
IPC Technologies, founded in 1981 has been at the forefront of offering best of breed products and services to companies all over the world. Based in the Capitol Region, IPC is focused on becoming the leading provider of communications products with ShoreTel, Aerohive, LifeSize and TechFirst Cloud Services. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Logicube
A global manufacturer of hard drive duplication and eForensics systems, Logicube delivers feature-rich and reliable solutions. Our duplication product family features handheld one-to-one devices as well as production-class systems for multi-target hard drive cloning. Our eForensic product family includes data capturing solutions for computers, cellphones & PDAs. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Microsemi/PowerDsine
 Microsemi's PowerDsine® midspans enable Ethernet switches to deliver up to 72 watts of reliable power. Exclusive PowerView Pro™ platform provides remote control, reboot and full power monitoring of network operations. PowerDsine technology is a major driver of 802.3af and 802.3at standards, the leader in High Power Midspans. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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Microsoft
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| Napatech
Napatech develops and markets the world's most advanced 1Gig and 10Gig programmable Ethernet network adapters for network traffic analysis and application off-loading. Napatech is the leading OEM supplier of Ethernet network acceleration adapter hardware with an installed base of more than 60,000 ports. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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455 |
Net Optics, Inc.
 ProviderNet Optics, the global leader in intelligent network access solutions, enables more than 6,300 organizations to enhance network performance and security while supporting regulatory compliance. The company offers innovative monitoring access and intrusion prevention solutions, protocol analyzers, firewalls, and network probes and maintains a worldwide reseller network. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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542 |
| Netlist, Inc.
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Netreo
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| NetSupport Inc.
Specializing in the development and promotion of commercial software packages to manage and support Local and Wide Area Computer Networks, its flagship products are the highly successful. NetSupport and its derivatives are sold worldwide and enjoy market-leading status in many countries, with a worldwide install base exceeding 8 million desktops. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Network Hardware Resale
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OPNET Technologies, Inc.
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| Processor
Processor is a bi-weekly print publication designed for people managing and purchasing equipment for data centers. Processor’s content is comprehensive but presented in a quick, easy-to-read format, so readers can keep up with new data center products and technologies. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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829 |
Rackspace
 Rackspace provides on-demand and scalable website, application and storage hosting backed by Fanatical Support®. Through an integrated suite of cloud solutions, The Rackspace Cloud enables developers and IT managers to trade the hassles, upfront investments and high costs for a hosting environment that scales easily when traffic fluctuates. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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401 |
Riverbed
 Riverbed Technology is the IT infrastructure performance company. The Riverbed family of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions liberates businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network and application visibility – all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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| Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online is an on-demand digital library that provides one integrated source for over 10,000 expert reference and learning materials from leading publishers. The site includes exclusive access to the collections of O’Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, Adobe Press and many others. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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722 |
| Simena
Simena is an innovative leader of network monitoring, measurements and testing solution provider. Simena's Packet Flow Switches are 10GE wire speed and industry's lowest latency aggregation switches that provide redundant and effective network monitoring as well as big cost savings. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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818 |
Splunk
 ProviderAddress Website Products/Services Offered
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449 |
Talari Networks
 Talari Networks is pioneering a new class of product to bring WAN virtualization and cloud economics to Enterprise networking. Talari’s Adaptive Private Networking (APN) technology delivers a network with 30-100x the bits per dollar, ongoing WAN costs reduced 40%-90%, and greater reliability than single-provider MPLS services. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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138 |
| Tools4ever, Inc.
Tools4ever offers quality, scalable productivity solutions for the Windows system administrator with a focus on User Provisioning, Life Cycle, Identity and Password management.Tools4ever is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner serving more than 5,000 clients and is committed to delivering superior products and outstanding customer support from offices worldwide. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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656 |
WildPackets
 WildPackets develops hardware and software solutions that drive network performance, enabling organizations of all sizes to analyze, troubleshoot, optimize, and secure their wired and wireless networks. WildPackets products are deployed in all industrial sectors. For more information, visit www.wildpackets.com. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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548 |
Xirrus
 ProviderXirrus manufactures the Wi-Fi Array which integrates up to 16 access points into a single device, providing more than enough bandwidth, security, and control to replace a workgroup Ethernet switch with 75% fewer devices, cabling, switch ports, power, space, & installation time compared with any other offering. Visit Booth #321 Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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321 |
Networking Conference
As recently as a couple of years ago not much was happening relative to the deployment of either new networking technologies and services or new network management functionality. Suddenly that has all changed. Driven in part by the virtualization of servers, the traditional data center LAN design is rapidly becoming obsolete. In addition, new technologies are being deployed to drastically improve the price performance of Internet based services and to enable the massive scalability and control of networks. At the same time that new networking technologies and services are being deployed, a wide range of new network management tools is being brought to market. These tools are targeting both traditional network management problems as well as the new generation of problems created by virtualization and cloud computing.
| Wednesday, October 20 | |
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10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 5 By adopting server virtualization we’ve reduced the number of physical servers in the data center but the proliferation of separate storage, data, management and VMotion networks has made the back of our server racks look like an explosion in a spaghetti factory. Now that 10Gigabit Ethernet is widely available several solutions have arisen to consolidate network and storage I/O onto a smaller number of higher bandwidth connections. With consolidated networking users can stop playing the game of one cable, two cable, orange cable, blue cable. This session will explore the solutions available to server and storage administrators for reducing cable clutter and consolidating network and storage I/O. Ranging from Fibre Channel NPIV and using vLANs to segregate data traffic to cutting edge technologies including Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and PCIe extension, We’ll look at the technologies, the players, the politics and how users can integrate new technologies into their short and long term planning.
Topics include:
• I/O virtualization for management and security
• The state of FCoE
• End of Row vs. Top of Rack configurations
• External I/O virtualization solutions
• 10Gig Ethernet, CEE, DCB, DCE – Ethernet for the Data Center
Speaker - Howard Marks, Founder and Chief Scientist, Networks Are Our Lives Inc! Howard Marks is the Founder and Chief Scientist at Networks Are Our Lives, Inc! a Hoboken NJ based networking consultancy. In over 25 years of consulting he has designed and implemented networks, management systems and Internet strategies at organizations including American Express, JP Morgan, Borden Foods, US Tobacco, BBDO Worldwide and Foxwoods Resort Casino. Mr. Marks has been a speaker at industry conferences including Comnet, PC Expo, Neworld+Interop and Microsoft’s TechEd since 1990 on topics including LAN and WAN infrastructure, systems management and web hosting. He is the author of Networking Windows and co-author of Windows NT Unleashed (Sams) along with over 100 articles in publications including PC Magazine, Network Computing and Network World. He is currently the "Backup and Business Continuity" blogger at InformationWeek.com | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 1 The media is overflowing with discussions of the benefits of adopting cloud computing and enabling technologies such as virtualization. What has been missing from that discussion is an analysis of what has to happen to the network to enable it to support cloud computing. For example, a new LAN access layer has emerged that is comprised of the vSwitches embedded within the hypervisor software. However, these vSwitches typically have poor management scalability and limited traffic visibility. Today’s typical WAN can not effectively support the dynamic movement of VMs nor cloud bursting. It also is not experiencing the same type of price reductions as are computing and storage resources. In this session, Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Associates will describe in detail the set of challenges created by cloud computing and will also provide an overview of the emerging networking, optimization and management technologies that hold the potential to mitigate these challenges. Speaker - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. | |
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Location: 1 Trends such as the adoption of virtualization are fundamentally changing how IT organizations need to architect their data center LAN. For example, the introduction of server virtualization and blade servers means that the traditional three tier data center LAN is expanding to where it now has as many as five layers. These extra layers can introduce unacceptable cost, complexity and delay. While all of the LAN switching vendors are aware of the problem, they have different approaches to solving it. In this session, Mike Fratto, Editor, Network Computing and Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Associates will identify the emerging approaches to architecting a data center LAN and will discuss the pros and cons of each. Moderator - Mike Fratto, Managing Editor/Labs, Network Computing Mike is Managing Editor, Labs, for InformationWeek. He previously was a Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including NetWorld+Interop, MISTI, the Internet Security Conference, as well as to local groups. He also teaches a network security graduate course at Syracuse University. Prior to Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. | |
3:15 PM–4:15 PM Location: 1 Having analyzed the emerging approaches to architecting a data center LAN it is now time to drill down into which technologies you should incorporate into your new data center LAN. In this PowerPoint free session, Mike Fratto and Jim Metzler will question LAN switching vendors about a number of topics including the pros and cons of FCoE vs. iSCSI; the viability of separating the LAN switch’s control and the data planes; the pros and cons of virtual switching and multi-chassis LAGs; the need for services such as QoS or security; as well as the alignment of each application VM with its own virtual NIC and virtual switch port. Moderator - Mike Fratto, Managing Editor/Labs, Network Computing Mike is Managing Editor, Labs, for InformationWeek. He previously was a Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including NetWorld+Interop, MISTI, the Internet Security Conference, as well as to local groups. He also teaches a network security graduate course at Syracuse University. Prior to Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. | |
| Thursday, October 21 | |
10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 1 Experts agree that the IPv4 address space will be depleted in about two years. In this session, John Curran, the president and chief executive officer of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), will identify the challenges that IPv4 depletion presents to networks and the Internet community as a whole, and how organizations can prepare for these challenges. The session will discuss the considerations for IPv6 adoption, as well as how to get involved in the community-driven public policy process that dictates how the remaining IPv4 address space is allocated. Speaker - John Curran, President & CEO, ARIN John Curran is the President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), responsible for leading the organization in its mission of managing the distribution of Internet number resources in its geographic region, which includes Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States. He was also a founder of ARIN and served as its Chairman from inception in 1997 through early 2009. John’s experience in the Internet industry includes serving as CTO and COO for ServerVault, CTO for XO Communications, and CTO for BBN/GTE Internetworking. | |
10:30 AM–11:20 AM Location: 3 Video conferencing is arguably the toughest application your enterprise network must support. It gobbles bandwidth while demanding priority treatment (QoS). Designing the right network solution to support enterprise video conferencing is key to its acceptance as a business tool. This session will explore technical aspects of designing, testing, and managing an enterprise network to support high quality video conferencing and telepresence -- and dive deeply into security, LAN QoS, and WAN QoS issues. Speaker - John Bartlett, Voice Video and Data Application Performance, NetForecast Inc. John Bartlett is a leading authority on real-time traffic, application performance and Quality of Service (QoS) techniques. He specializes in helping enterprises manage voice, video and data application performance. Recent work has focused on designing global networks to best support video conferencing and telepresence systems. John has 32 years of experience in the semiconductor, computer and communications fields in marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing and consulting roles. He has contributed to microprocessor, computer and network equipment design for over 40 products. He has been consulting since 1996. Prior to working as a consultant, John was a founder and VP of Engineering and Manufacturing at Agile Networks, now part of Lucent Technologies. Under his leadership, the company designed and built a high performance Ethernet switch implementing VLANs, and one of the first commercial ATM switches. Both products were successfully introduced to the market and the firm became profitable before it was acquired. Mr. Bartlett also served on the IEEE 802.1 committee during this period, and contributed to the development of the IEEE 802.1P and IEEE 802.1Q standards (priority and VLANs.) John is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 1 Given the combination of the economic malaise and the sensationalism that surrounds topics such as cloud computing and server virtualization, it is possible to surmise that nothing of significance is happening in the networking space. Nothing could be further from the truth. Venture capitalists and others have been funding significant investments in a wide range of networking technologies and the results of those investments are beginning to hit the market. The panelists in this fast-paced, PowerPoint-free session will discuss some of the most promising emerging networking technologies. Attend this session to get an early look at what could be some significant networking breakthroughs. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Panelist - Alex Henthorn-Iwane, VP of Product Marketing, Packet Design Alex Henthorn-Iwane joined Packet Design in September 2004 and brings 19 years of systems engineering, product management and marketing experience in network infrastructure, management and security technologies and products. Prior to joining Packet Design, he was Senior Director of Product Management and Product Marketing at CoSine Communications, a maker of virtualized edge routing and security infrastructure equipment for the Service Provider market. Previously, Henthorn-Iwane was Director of Product Management and Marketing at Corona Networks, Lucent Technologies and Livingston Enterprises (acquired by Lucent); and held systems engineering management posts with Fibronics America. He holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. Panelist - Keith Morris, VP of Marketing, Talari Networks With more than 20 years in networking industry marketing and engineering roles, Keith provides Talari with his strong sense of strategic planning in leading the company's marketing, product management, and business development efforts. Prior to Talari, Keith was most recently vice president of marketing and customer engineering for multimedia routing technology vendor Ubicom. He formerly served as senior director of product management and marketing at Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC), where he was instrumental in developing AMCC's broadband access strategy and securing the company's position as the market share leader in the network processor market. Previously, Keith was director of marketing at network processor pioneer MMC Networks (acquired by AMCC) and also held positions in engineering and management at Fujitsu and GEC/Plessey. Keith holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) degree in Electronic Computer Systems and a Post Graduate Diploma in Engineering from the University of Salford, U.K. Panelist - Raj Kanaya, CEO and Co-Founder, Infineta Systems Raj Kanaya brings a long track record of general management and market development success to Infineta Systems. As CEO, Raj is responsible for the overall vision, direction, and revenue attainment for the company. Previously, Raj was VP of product strategy and alliances for the Application Networking Group at Citrix Systems. He joined Citrix though its acquisition of NetScaler where he served as VP of product management for a product line that went from sub-$2 million to $60+ million in revenues over three years. Raj was a GM of a BU at Lucent and led business development at Nexsi Systems. Earlier in his career, he was a Bain & Co. consultant where he advised large companies in technology and LBO funds on turnarounds, new market entries, and acquisitions/divestitures. Raj has an M.B.A. from Stanford University and earned his B.S. in computer science magna cum laude from UCSD. | |
| Friday, October 22 | |
10:15 AM–11:15 AM Location: 1 Physical servers now support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that can be provisioned and moved between servers in a matter of minutes. There is just one huge problem – today the supporting network and management infrastructure is still largely static and physical. So while it is possible to move a VM between data centers in a matter of minutes, it can take days or weeks to get the supporting infrastructure in place. The panelists on this session will discuss solutions to this problem including new standards like IF-MAP, automation of functionality such as IP address management and the deployment of a new class of management product – the orchestration engine. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Panelist - Ken Ferderer, Chief Technology Officer, LineSider Technologies, Inc. Mr. Ferderer's career in information technology and telecom spans more than 13 years. Most recently he was Chief Information Officer for TelCove, overseeing their Information Technology department, systems, and strategy. Prior to Telcove, he served as Vice President, Chief Information Officer for Priority Telecom, a telecommunications company headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In his career, he has also held other senior-level IT positions at companies such as Cignal Global Communications, Level (3) Communications, and PKS Information Services. Mr. Ferderer received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from DeVry Institute of Technology in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1991. An experienced and widely respected industry professional, Mr. Ferderer was named by Computerworld Magazine among their 2007 list of Premier 100 IT Leaders. Panelist - Lou Nardo, Director of Product Management, Infoblox Panelist - Ken Oestreich, VP of Marketing, Egenera Inc. Ken Oestreich is VP Marketing for Egenera. With over 20 years in enterprise software and data center automation, he’s now helping define the market for converged infrastructure and unified computing. Prior to Egenera he led Product Marketing at Cassatt Corp., where he developed the market for utility computing and internal cloud computing. Previously, Ken was with Sun Microsystems, driving business management for an incubator business unit, coordinating Java and software strategy, and driving Developer Marketing. He began at Sun developing the market for CORBA middleware and web services. Ken also helped found the Liberty Alliance, an industry-wide body defining federated identity standards for the internet. Prior to Sun, he held marketing and sales development positions in early-stage technology and consulting companies. Ken began his career in Electrical Engineering, controlling adaptive optics with Litton Industries. He holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia University. | |
11:30 AM–12:30 PM Location: 1 The role of network management has fundamentally changed. It is no longer just about the availability of networks. In now includes managing the performance of networks and applications. In addition, the continued deployment of new functionality, such as mobility and the virtualization of just about every component of IT, is making the task of network management significantly more challenging. Thankfully there has been a lot of investment in network management and the panelists in this fast paced, PowerPoint-free session will discuss some of the most promising of the emerging network management technologies. Moderator - Jim Metzler, Vice President, Ashton Metzler & Associates Jim has a wide background in the IT industry. This includes being a software engineer, an engineering manager for high-speed data services for a major telco, a product manager for network hardware, a network manager at two Fortune 500 companies, and the principal of a consulting organization. In addition, Jim has created software tools for designing customer networks for a major IXC, and directed and performed market research at a major industry analyst firm. Panelist - Steven Shalita, Vice President of Marketing, NetScout Systems Steven Shalita is Vice President, Marketing, and leads the global marketing activities. He is an experienced marketing strategist with more than 20 years of technology marketing leadership experience in the voice and data networking and telecommunications industries. He has a proven track record of delivering results and growing revenues by connecting technology with business needs to deliver customer value. Mr. Shalita returned to NetScout in July of 2008, and was previously Director, Product Marketing at NetScout from 1997 through 1999. During his time away, he held marketing leadership positions at Alcatel-Lucent, Redback Networks, Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems. At Alcatel-Lucent, he led the product marketing and strategy efforts for the company’s $1.2 Billion service provider router and network management portfolio. At Redback Networks, he led product and technical marketing activities, including the introduction of the company’s entrance into the metro Ethernet market. During his nearly six years at Cisco Systems, he served in a series of increasingly strategic assignments, including leading enterprise networking marketing efforts across Europe, Middle East and Africa and leading worldwide strategy and marketing activities for Cisco’s $9 billion LAN switching portfolio where he was a driving force in establishing Cisco’s global leadership position in the Enterprise network market. He has extensive global experience in a broad range of networking, and network management technologies for Enterprise, SMB and Service Provider segments. Panelist - Patrick Ancipink, Vice President of Product Marketing, Service Assurance, CA Panelist - Jesse Rothstein, CEO, Extrahop Networks Jesse Rothstein is the CEO and co-founder of ExtraHop Networks, where his technical vision and expertise in enterprise networking give ExtraHop a competitive edge in the industry. With a world-class team under his leadership, Jesse is responsible for the technical architecture of the innovative ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance platform. Jesse co-founded ExtraHop after a six-year tenure at F5 Networks where he was a Senior Software Architect and co-inventor of the TMOS platform. Jesse was the architect and project lead for the BIG-IP v9 development effort and the technical lead for frameworks, clustering, and performance. Prior to F5, Jesse worked in product development at Motive Communications and the Trilogy Development Group. Jesse specializes in designing and implementing high-performance networking products. Jesse graduated from Rice University with bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Panelist - Eric Bear, Director of Product Management, Visual Network Systems | |
Workshops
Get in-depth Networking education in full day workshops on Monday and Tuesday before the conference.
| Monday, October 18 | |
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9:00 AM–4:30 PM Location: TBA Network utilization and error monitoring, throughput measurement, and device monitoring - these can all be done using free Open Source tools available today on the Internet! This workshop focuses on a handful of tools that can be used for troubleshooting a wide variety of network and application problems. Who Should Attend Instructor - Mike Pennacchi, Owner, Network Protocol Specialists Mike Pennacchi is owner of Network Protocol Specialists, a network analysis and training company based in Seattle, Washington. His company specializes in analyzing network performance problems for companies throughout the United States. He has taught at Interop since 1997 and has received the event's Instructor Award as highest ranking instructor three of those years. Pennacchi brings his experience as a network analyst into the classroom and assists students in understanding how to fix problems in their own networks. | |
| Tuesday, October 19 | |
9:00 AM–4:30 PM Location: TBA Wireshark® has become one of the most popular protocol analyzers available to network administrators today. While it provides an easy means to capture packets, it is not always easy to interpret the contents of those packets. In this session we will take a detailed look at how to reliably capture and analyze network traffic. We will use trace file examples to demonstrate a number of common network protocols. Examples will be given of how the network traffic should look when it is working properly and what it looks like when it is not working properly. Instructor - Mike Pennacchi, Owner, Network Protocol Specialists Mike Pennacchi is owner of Network Protocol Specialists, a network analysis and training company based in Seattle, Washington. His company specializes in analyzing network performance problems for companies throughout the United States. He has taught at Interop since 1997 and has received the event's Instructor Award as highest ranking instructor three of those years. Pennacchi brings his experience as a network analyst into the classroom and assists students in understanding how to fix problems in their own networks. | |
Free Networking Sessions
All Interop attendees can choose from a full calendar of free sessions Wednesday and Thursday including the following covering Networking:
| Wednesday, October 20 | |
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11:00 AM–11:45 AM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
12:00 PM–12:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
1:00 PM–1:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
2:00 PM–2:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
3:00 PM–3:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
| Thursday, October 21 | |
11:00 AM–11:45 AM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
12:00 PM–12:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
1:00 PM–1:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
1:00 PM–1:45 PM Location: Free Ed Room 2 With most network management and analysis solutions you slice and dice data to deal with network traffic from 10 Gigabit (10G) network segments. You’re forced to chose between real-time network performance statistics and network forensics. Learn best practices for achieving real-time visibility and storage of historical network data. Speaker - Joe Habib, Director of Global Services, WildPackets Mr. Joe Habib is a seasoned executive with proven expertise in Information Technology, eCommerce, and Systems Management. Joe possesses over 15 years experience in designing, developing, and delivering technology and information management solutions. He has managed large information and network services for several Silicon Valley and international companies. Joe holds a BA in Business and Management Information Systems with an emphasis on Telecommunications from San Jose State University. Joe holds certifications with Cisco and Microsoft. | |
2:00 PM–2:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
3:00 PM–3:45 PM Location: Interopnet classroom | |
Networking Exhibitors
See all the latest IT solutions at Interop's comprehensive expo, with 150+ technology companies including leading Networking vendors.
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A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | W | X| Company | Booth |
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| AdRem Software, Inc.
AdRem Software makes award-winning network management software trusted by thousands of engineers worldwide. Discover our network monitoring, network mapping, inventory, and free network tools today! Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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628 |
| American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
ARIN distributes Internet number resources, including IP addresses, in Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States. Applying the principles of stewardship, ARIN allocates Internet number resources; develops consensus-based policies; and facilitates the advancement of the Internet through information and educational outreach. http://www.arin.net. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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149 |
| APCON, Inc.
Provider APCON's aggregation, filtering and switching technology enables any IT group to share an inventory of monitoring and security devices. With over 3,000 chassis installed in networks spanning 30 countries, APCON has become the new standard by which organizations are planning their network monitoring deployments. To learn more, visit www.apcon.com. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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554 |
| Avocent, a division of Emerson Network Power
Provider Address Website Products/Services Offered
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523 |
| Bat Blue Corporation
Bat Blue Corporation provides network consultancy, IP services and security solutions. Bat Blue's “In-the-Cloud” offering, CloudSec, eliminates capital and hardware costs, reduces risk and benefits from a centralized interface. BlueNET IP network provides a true 10Gig network that leverages terabit carrier-grade fully redundant infrastructure. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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713 |
| Brocade
Address Website Products/Services Offered
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717 |
| BT Diamond IP
Provider BT Diamond IP is a leading provider of software and appliance products and services that help customers effectively manage complex IP networks. Our next-generation IP management solutions help businesses more efficiently manage IP address space across mid-to-very large sized enterprise and service provider networks. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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723 |
| Ciphertex
Ciphertex offers powerful, affordable data security products and services to companies and businesses around the world. Our products feature the highest levels of hardware−based encryption solutions.Today´s larger digital media capacities, increased data mobility, and growing security concerns demand comprehensive, endpoint, hardware−based encryption. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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737 |
| Cisco
Cisco unveils capabilities to maximize participation anytime, anywhere, to any device, securely, reliably and seamlessly, and delivered through virtualized and cloud-based services. With innovations for the network and the data center, Cisco delivers new technologies, solutions, and services that enable transformational business models. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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121 |
| CXtec
CXtec helps keep your network up and your costs down. Our equal2new® certified pre-owned networking and voice hardware reduces the cost of your technology infrastructure while our RapidCare® advance hardware replacement offering gives you maximum uptime. One call to us and you’ll see why there’s only one CXtec. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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617 |
| Cymphonix
Address Website Products/Services Offered
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724 |
| Datacom Systems
Datacom Systems is a leading manufacturer of data capture infrastructure for increased network access and visibility. A critical part of the computer network, data capture infrastructure provides copies of network traffic to monitoring tools for network, security, and application analysis. Datacom products are compatible with all vendor's monitoring deployments. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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250 |
| Dell
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to its customers and uses that insight to make technology simpler and create innovative solutions that deliver reliable, long-term value. For more information visit www.dell.com. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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337 |
| Diskeeper Corporation
Diskeeper's family of innovative products are relied upon by more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies and more than 67% of The Forbes Global 100, as well as thousands of enterprises, government agencies, independent software vendors (ISVs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and home offices worldwide. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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725 |
| EMC Corporation
EMC Ionix (formerly Smarts and Voyence) network management solutions improve availability and performance, and increase operational efficiency—which save you time and money. They do this by automating root-cause analysis; service and infrastructure monitoring; network configuration, change, and compliance management (including Vblocks); and reporting across physical, virtual & Cloud environments. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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345 |
| Enterasys Networks and PTS Data Center Solutions
Provider About PTS Data Center Solutions Experts for Your Always Available Data Center. PTS Data Center Solutions specializes in the business strategy, planning, designing, engineering, constructing, commissioning, implementing, maintaining, and managing of data center and computer room environments from both the facility and IT perspectives. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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756 |
| Force10 Networks
Address Website Products/Services Offered
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417 |
| Geist Manufacturing
Geist specializes in 15-120 Amp PDUs, with 1000+ standard units including monitored, switched, environmental and IP based products. Geist also offers rapid response production of custom PDUs. From in-house chassis production to an on-site UL testing lab, Geist's cohesive abilities result in the lowest lead times in the PDU industry. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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242 |
| Gigamon
Gigamon provides secure access and complete visibility to all your data anywhere, anytime, while lowering the total cost of network management. Gigamon’s product suite seamlessly aggregates, filters and replicates traffic of interest from 1Gbps and 10Gbps tapped links and mirror ports to multiple monitoring and security tools. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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630 |
| HotLava Systems
HotLava Systems designs and manufactures innovative, server class multi-port Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapters that meet the bandwidth, space, and power consumption requirements of the most demanding networks. Our products are natively-supported by virtually all operating systems and deliver more productivity by reducing or eliminating network interface congestion. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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823 |
| HP
Provider HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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716 |
| IPC Technologies, Inc/ShoreTel
IPC Technologies, founded in 1981 has been at the forefront of offering best of breed products and services to companies all over the world. Based in the Capitol Region, IPC is focused on becoming the leading provider of communications products with ShoreTel, Aerohive, LifeSize and TechFirst Cloud Services. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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349 |
| Logicube
A global manufacturer of hard drive duplication and eForensics systems, Logicube delivers feature-rich and reliable solutions. Our duplication product family features handheld one-to-one devices as well as production-class systems for multi-target hard drive cloning. Our eForensic product family includes data capturing solutions for computers, cellphones & PDAs. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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454 |
| Microsemi/PowerDsine
Microsemi's PowerDsine® midspans enable Ethernet switches to deliver up to 72 watts of reliable power. Exclusive PowerView Pro™ platform provides remote control, reboot and full power monitoring of network operations. PowerDsine technology is a major driver of 802.3af and 802.3at standards, the leader in High Power Midspans. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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825 |
| Microsoft
Address Website Products/Services Offered
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411 |
| Napatech
Napatech develops and markets the world's most advanced 1Gig and 10Gig programmable Ethernet network adapters for network traffic analysis and application off-loading. Napatech is the leading OEM supplier of Ethernet network acceleration adapter hardware with an installed base of more than 60,000 ports. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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455 |
| Net Optics, Inc.
Provider Net Optics, the global leader in intelligent network access solutions, enables more than 6,300 organizations to enhance network performance and security while supporting regulatory compliance. The company offers innovative monitoring access and intrusion prevention solutions, protocol analyzers, firewalls, and network probes and maintains a worldwide reseller network. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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542 |
| Netlist, Inc.
Address Website Products/Services Offered
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611 |
| Netreo
Address Website Products/Services Offered
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348 |
| NetSupport Inc.
Specializing in the development and promotion of commercial software packages to manage and support Local and Wide Area Computer Networks, its flagship products are the highly successful. NetSupport and its derivatives are sold worldwide and enjoy market-leading status in many countries, with a worldwide install base exceeding 8 million desktops. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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531 |
| Network Hardware Resale
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120 |
| OPNET Technologies, Inc.
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229 |
| Processor
Processor is a bi-weekly print publication designed for people managing and purchasing equipment for data centers. Processor’s content is comprehensive but presented in a quick, easy-to-read format, so readers can keep up with new data center products and technologies. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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829 |
| Rackspace
Rackspace provides on-demand and scalable website, application and storage hosting backed by Fanatical Support®. Through an integrated suite of cloud solutions, The Rackspace Cloud enables developers and IT managers to trade the hassles, upfront investments and high costs for a hosting environment that scales easily when traffic fluctuates. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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401 |
| Riverbed
Riverbed Technology is the IT infrastructure performance company. The Riverbed family of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions liberates businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network and application visibility – all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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221 |
| Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online is an on-demand digital library that provides one integrated source for over 10,000 expert reference and learning materials from leading publishers. The site includes exclusive access to the collections of O’Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, Cisco Press, Adobe Press and many others. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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722 |
| Simena
Simena is an innovative leader of network monitoring, measurements and testing solution provider. Simena's Packet Flow Switches are 10GE wire speed and industry's lowest latency aggregation switches that provide redundant and effective network monitoring as well as big cost savings. Address Website Products/Services Offered
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818 |
| Splunk
Provider Address Website Products/Services Offered
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449 |
| Talari Networks
Talari Networks is pioneering a new class of product to bring WAN virtualization and cloud economics to Enterprise networking. Talari’s Adaptive Private Networking (APN) technology delivers a network with 30-100x the bits per dollar, ongoing WAN costs reduced 40%-90%, and greater reliability than single-provider MPLS services. Address Website Products/Services Offered
Companies Served
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138 |
| Tools4ever, Inc.
Tools4ever offers quality, scalable productivity solutions for the Windows system administrator with a focus on User Provisioning, Life Cycle, Identity and Password management.Tools4ever is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner serving more than 5,000 clients and is committed to delivering superior products and outstanding customer support from offices worldwide. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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656 |
| WildPackets
WildPackets develops hardware and software solutions that drive network performance, enabling organizations of all sizes to analyze, troubleshoot, optimize, and secure their wired and wireless networks. WildPackets products are deployed in all industrial sectors. For more information, visit www.wildpackets.com. Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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548 |
| Xirrus
Provider Xirrus manufactures the Wi-Fi Array which integrates up to 16 access points into a single device, providing more than enough bandwidth, security, and control to replace a workgroup Ethernet switch with 75% fewer devices, cabling, switch ports, power, space, & installation time compared with any other offering. Visit Booth #321 Address Website Social Networks Products/Services Offered
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