Latest Trade Show news
* FROM ROBOBUSINESS CONFERENCE:
Microsoft enters the robotics market, 06/20/06
Microsoft Tuesday released the preview version of a software tool kit for building robot applications, pledging to ignite the robot market in the same way it did the PC market some 20 years ago.
* FROM HP SOFTWARE FORUM:
HP to roll out new management software, 06/19/06
HP this week is set to announce software that supports what-if modeling scenarios that the company says will enable buyers to determine how changes made to staff and infrastructure resources will affect business service levels.
* FROM BURTON GROUP CATALYST CONFERENCE:
Users make headway in identity management, 06/19/06
Rolling out a complete identity management system is virtually impossible today, given the immature state of the tools, frameworks and standards available. That doesn’t mean you can’t tackle discrete pieces of the identity management …
Identity Management Newsletter: Identity vendors play the waiting game as users finish ID rollouts, 06/19/06
Last week I was at the Burton Group’s annual Catalyst Conference, which is always a pleasant …
* FROM MICROSOFT TECHED:
Windows Networking Newsletter: Voltage enables AD groups to be used for e-mail security rules triggers, 06/14/06
If you happen to be at Microsoft’s TechEd event this week, try to stop by the Voltage Security booth for a look at the latest release …
Microsoft AJAX framework forges ahead, 06/15/06
Microsoft’s planned Atlas framework for AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) faces difficulty with its development, but promises to be a top-notch offering for the trendy Web-scripting technique, a moderator of a TechEd 2006 session said Wednesday.
FROM GARTNER GOVERNMENT CONFERENCE:
Technology decisions shape values, Lessig says – Network World, 06/16/06
Law professor and author Lawrence Lessig on Friday charged IT professionals in the government sector with the responsibility of helping the policymakers they support to understand how their technology decisions affect what values the government supports.
U.S. gov’t agencies look for data conversion technology, 06/16/06
The future of U.S. government IT systems will include a big focus on converting old data into electronic form, two government IT leaders said Friday.
* FROM TERA GRID ’06 CONFERENCE:
Futuristic optical system tackles image processing, 06/15/06
A team of researchers led by the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of California at San Diego are creating an IP-based computing system for scientists who need to visualize and analyze massive amounts of data stored in multiple …
* FROM BLACK HAT CONFERENCE:
After lawsuit, Cisco embraces Black Hat, 06/14/06
The bad blood between Cisco and organizers of the Black Hat conference appears to be a thing of the past. One year after suing the hacker conference for allowing security researcher Michael …
* UPCOMING TRADE SHOWS (June, July, Aug.):
Yankee Group’s Wireless Leadership Summit
June 27-28, New York
June 27-29, New York
Yankee Group’s Mobilizing the Enterprise
July 17-18, Boston
Intranet Week
July 24-26, Boston
July 29 – Aug. 3, Las Vegas
Aug. 14-16, San Francisco
The MIS Audit Leadership Institute
Aug. 21-25, Boston
BMC UserWorld 2006, San Francisco
Aug. 29 – Sept. 1
* FREE NETWORK WORLD SEMINARS:
Technology Tour: The VoIP Payoff: Convergence and Collaboration
June 1-29, various cities
Whether you were among the first to implement VoIP, or are just now rolling it out, the answers you need are at The VoIP Payoff: Convergence and Collaboration. It’s the Network World LIVE Technology Tour event coming in June. And it’s the place to map the future.
Johna Till Johnson of Nemertes Research is your host. She’s been where you’re headed and will guide you to the next-generation of networks. Showing you current trends. Coming technologies. Best practices. And real-world solutions.
Network World IT Roadmap
Chicago – June 27
Dallas – Sept. 13
It’s where you’ll hear IT strategies delivered direct to you from Network World editors six months ahead of outsiders even knowing about it. Where you can meet personally, one-on-one, with an IT all-star to discuss how coming technology will reshape your enterprise. Where you can accomplish a year’s worth of vendor analysis among more than two dozen solution providers all in one day.
