News from INTEROP; WINHEC; VOICES FROM IT ROADMAP; PARTNERWORLD; JAVAONE; WOOT; MIX

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* NEWS FROM INTEROP:

Interop Las Vegas 2007 planning guide, 05/14/07: Whether you own a five-employee business or are CIO of a Fortune 500 company, almost everything you need to know about running your network can be learned at Interop.

Interop buzz getting louder, 05/10/07: The spring Interop event kicks off in Las Vegas in less than two weeks – which means vendors from all areas of IT are readying new and improved wares to debut at the conference and exposition.

Nortel plans major enterprise product launch, 05/11/07: Nortel will soon unveil significant additions to its enterprise arsenal, including its initial entré into the WAN acceleration market.

Appliance monitors, analyzes employee behavior, 05/15/07: Business and IT executives looking to drive bottlenecks out of business processes and uncover security threats in their environments might want to check out a product that promises to map a company’s organizational network and provide analysis as to how it can be optimized.

LANs & Routers Newsletter: Looking ahead to Interop, 05/14/07: Interop Las Vegas 2007 is almost upon us, and it looks like it will continue to act as the flagship trade show for the networking industry this year.

LANs & Routers Newsletter: 10 Gigabit Ethernet gear demonstrated, 05/07/07: Start-up Tehuti Networks is ramping up demonstrations of equipment built on its 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology.

* NEWS FROM WINHEC:

WINHEC – Microsoft expands sales channel for home server, 05/15/07: Microsoft has signed up more vendors to build hardware for its forthcoming Windows Home Server, expanding the sales channel for the company’s first server OS aimed at home PC users.

Gates christens Longhorn Windows Server 2008, outlining future areas of focus, 05/15/07: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates Tuesday revealed one of the company’s worst kept secrets by announcing Longhorn Server will officially be called Windows Server 2008.

Password policy management feature slipped into Longhorn, 05/15/07: Microsoft has quietly added a password management feature to Longhorn Server that will let administrators assign password policies based on users and groups regardless of what domain they reside in.

* VOICES FROM IT ROADMAP NEWS:

Whirlpool takes Cisco NAC for a spin, 05/14/07: After a pilot lasting more than three months, Whirlpool is confident that network-access-control technology will not only help keep its global network more secure, but also play a role as the company implements a new generation of Web services applications.

* NEWS FROM PARTNERWORLD:

PARTNERWORLD – IBM plans to create SMB blade bundles, 05/02/07: IBM intends to make its blade servers more attractive to small-to-midsize business customers and help its business partners target those users.

PARTNERWORLD – IBM executive calls for ‘virtual planet’, 05/02/07: As companies look to engage in more virtual business interactions, IBM’s head of innovation called for more integration between the various online virtual worlds where avatars meet.

PARTNERWORLD: IBM gives peek at blade workstation, 05/01/07: IBM is developing a blade workstation, set to hit the market later this year, that moves the workstation from under a desk into the data center.

PARTNERWORLD – CEO: SMB to become IBM’s ‘largest industry’, 05/01/07: The head of IBM expects the company’s small to midsize business (SMB) operation to become the vendor’s biggest industry focus within a couple of years.

* NEWS FROM JAVAONE:

Java to package software distribution feature, 05/14/07: Sun, which continues to plan for upgrades to the core Java platform, announced Tuesday at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco that Java Standard Edition (SE) 7 will feature a “superpackage” capability for improved distribution of small pieces of software.

McNealy sees room for Sun’s scripting language, 05/14/07: Speaking at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Sun Microsystems chairman Scott McNealy rejected any notion that the company’s new JavaFX Script scripting language might have trouble gaining traction in a crowded market.

* NEWS FROM The First USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT ’07):

Using “offensive technologies” to secure networks, 05/14/07: The First Usenix Workshop on Offensive Technologies is coming to Boston on Aug 6. It’s hard to resist an event called WOOT, even though we weren’t quite sure what it was all about. So we shot an e-mail to Tal Garfinkel, a Ph.D graduate student in Stanford University’s computer science department and one of WOOT’s program chairs, and asked him to explain.

* NEWS FROM MIX:

MIX – Microsoft fails to impress during Bach’s keynote, 05/01/07: The last thing a company wants to do at a keynote speech is clear a room. But that’s just what Microsoft succeeded in doing during Tuesday’s keynote at MIX 07 in Las Vegas.

* 2007 TRADE SHOWS:

Smart Cards for Government and Payment – Mexico 2007

Mexico City, Mexico – May 8 – 9

Storage Decisions

Chicago, May 5 – 7

Interop

Las Vegas, May 20-25

Moscow, Russia, May 30-31

Tokyo, Japan, June 11-15

New York, Oct. 22-26

Berlin, Germany, Nov. 6-8

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