Latest Trade Show news
* FROM INTEROP LAS VEGAS:
Free software flows at Interop, 05/08/06
Savvy Interop attendees this week walked away from the show in Las Vegas with more than a pocket full of USB flash drives and retractable Ethernet cables — they also took home free software.
Top network technology demos spark Interop, 05/08/06
From rock bands to beer to booth babes, vendors at Interop have used every trick in the book to halt people wandering around the show floor and lure them into their booths, but this year the coolness of the actual demos overshadowed the gimmicks.
Interop: Massive VoIP tests reveal strengths, weaknesses, 05/04/06
The good news is that VoIP equipment among multiple vendors is finally pretty interoperable; the bad news is that there are still lots of potholes that can ruin VoIP implementation.
Interop: Trusted Computing Group demonstrates interoperability among vendors, 05/04/06
Securely controlling what devices and users gain access to corporate networks is a dominant theme at Interop with the Trusted Computing Group demonstrating interoperability among multiple vendors’ gear and individual vendors announcing mutual …
Their take: Network pros at Interop share their thoughts on top issues, 05/04/06
More than 18,000 attendees were expected at Interop this week, the majority of them IT professionals looking to gain or give advice on their profession and find new technologies to work with. Three of them at the show shared with us what’s on …
Internap rolls out application assessment service, 05/03/06
Internap Network Services announced its Application Assessment Service at Interop in Las Vegas Tuesday.
* FROM SYMANTEC VISION:
Symantec offers free version of Storage Foundation, 05/09/06
Symantec has released a free version of its Veritas Storage Foundation product, designed to entice enterprise customers into installing the storage management software on servers running outside of the data center.
* FROM MICROSOFT MANAGEMENT SUMMIT:
Q&A: Microsoft’s Muglia chats up management directions, 05/08/06
At the recent Microsoft Management Summit, Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft’s server and tools business, introduced the newest additions to the Microsoft management lineup: System Center Service Desk and System Center Carmine. Muglia sat …
* UPCOMING TRADE SHOWS (May, June, July):
May 8-11, San Francisco
Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2006
May 14-18, San Francisco
May 15-19, San Francisco
May 31 – June 1, San Jose
The IT Audit Directors & Managers Symposium
June 6-8, Boston
June 11-16, Boston
June 14-15, San Francisco
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
* FREE NETWORK WORLD SEMINARS:
Technology Tour: Applications & Content Security: Building the Defensible Network
May 16-25, various cities
What drove security up the stack to the boardroom? What changed the focus from perimeter firewalls to layered protection? How did it come to the perpetual scanning of all Web, SMTP, IM and FTP traffic?
Often it’s nothing more than a CEO’s stolen password. Or it can be as devastating as an entire network compromised to its core data. But no matter the trigger, security is now the No. 1 corporate priority. And expectations are as high as senior management’s anxiety.
Before your network takes a hit — take a day to attend Network World’s new Technology Tour event Applications & Content Security: Building the Defensible Network and discover how to build a fortress defense.
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.
IT Roadmap
Chicago: June 27
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.
