Latest videos & podcasts from Network World.
Highlight of the week:
Cool Tools video: Gadgets from the Far East you’ll never see
West Coast/Asia Correspondent Joel Snyder shows Keith some gadgets and gizmos he picked up on a recent trip to Asia. Among the booty: A Sushi-shaped USB drive, a diamond-studded phone and a very cool Bluetooth headset unit.
More videos and podcasts:
Twisted Pair podcast: Interop 2007: No lonely cowboys here
Recording live from Interop 2007, Jason and Keith chat about what they learned at Interop, Google’s auction idea for wireless spectrum, the 5-year-exclusive agreement between AT&T and Apple for the iPhone, and why cowboys are so lonely (41:24)
Voices from IT Roadmap video: Not all VoIP rollouts go as plannedDespite new building and fresh networking gear, a voice over IP implementation does not always go as planned – even for a high-tech outfit like the Argonne National Laboratory. Scott Pinkerton, manager of Argonne’s core network infrastructure, explains the hurdles his group faced and the lessons learned from their failed VoIP project. Panorama podcast: Why are we still getting spam?
How does e-mail security fit in the greater scheme of networking? Scott Weiss, founder and CEO of e-mail security appliance maker IronPort Systems, talks about e-mail security, why spam is on the rise, and what Cisco will and won’t do with his company following the networking giant’s January announcement to acquire it (19:19).
Network World 360 podcast: Foundry BigIron, Cisco outage, 802.11n news and more
Foundry goes big at Interop with BigIron RX32; Wireless vendors target enterprise nets with 802.11n products; McAfee updates risk-management line; IBM ISS announces its speediest IPS model; and report says Cisco routers involved in a major outage in Japan. (6:18)
Panorama podcast: Building the new enterprise desktopHow do you evolve your company’s desktops from an “old” model of legacy, separate applications into a “new” model of integrated, Web-enabled, dynamic applications? Keith Shaw talks with OpenSpan CEO Francis Carden (pictured) about the evolution of the new enterprise desktop, how IT and business groups can work together in driving this integration, and the steps to take towards this integration. (15:10) LinuxWorld podcast: The role of a community evangelist: Ted Haeger/a>
“Reverend Ted” Haeger explains his new community evangelist job at Bungee Labs, which is bringing Web 2.0 app development tools and hosting services to web entrepreneurs. And what’s next for whoever takes on Ted’s old community role at Novell? (21:51)
