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Interop New York 2009 Coverage The Interop IT conference and exhibition hits New York City's Jacob Javits Conventon Center Nov. 16-20, and organizers say the pre-Thanksgiving event will offer up a bounty of news and information on the year's hottest tech trends—including cloud computing, virtualization, security, and network infrastructure management. The Web 2.0 Expo New York returns to the Javits Convention Center on Nov 16- 19 with a show focused on the power of less. The Expo's "Power of Less" theme isn't merely a concession to the reality of tight budgets and lingering economic uncertainty. It also recognizes that realignment presents opportunities and that Web companies benefit from focus. News From Interop Spring 2009 This year's champs come from every corner of IT -- cloud computing, virtualization, network management, security, wireless -- and more. Judges also handed out a green award, and picked a favorite startup. Slow and inefficient Internet links, security concerns, and architectural problems in terms of processing, are top of mind for one expert panel. Asked to cite the most glaring problem of virtualization, 59% of the respondents indicated they lack experience to manage the technology appropriately. Big Blue is following Rackable, HP, and Sun, which have begun to sell shipping containers already pre-loaded with servers, networking and other data center equipment. About 35% of Skype's users already use the peer-to-peer communication tool for business purposes and the company sees that number increasing. More than 5,000 employees last year told Deloitte's IT that they no longer access e-mail on their notebooks, but only on their smart phones, fueling Jerome Oglesby's theory. Execs point to future systems powered by SAP Business Suite and Business Objects along with SAP's CRM On-Demand and Business ByDesign. Version 5.0 is headlined by a connector for Microsoft Excel, an application performance dashboard, and maps with real-time event notifications. Mellanox has teamed up with Arista Networks and Supermicro to demo a network design optimal for virtualization and server consolidation. The companies will co-develop a unified communications suite with support for Microsoft Office Communications Server on a number of HP hardware platforms. VMWare and Citrix are joined by Ixia, VKernal, Vizioncore, and others at Interop to show how much the enterprise has to gain by adopting virtualization. The telecom giant joins IBM, Amazon, Symantec, and others in offering a storage-as-a-service product to businesses. Cutting-edge trends in enterprise mobility to be spotlighted at the Mobile Business Conference at Interop. Target investment areas include virtualization, cloud computing, IT energy conservation, mobility and wireless, and network infrastructure and data center upgrades. The move is an attempt to capitalize on the trend of businesses wanting to get more out of their deployed smartphones than just mobile e-mail. Learn how virtualization and the coming Converged Enhanced Ethernet standard are making networking matter more than ever. Expert demos at Las Vegas conference to showcase why the cloud is relevant to the enterprise. Learn how cloud computing and social networking can give a lift to return on investment. Target investment areas include virtualization, cloud computing, IT energy conservation, mobility and wireless, and network infrastructure and data center upgrades. Expert demos at Las Vegas conference will showcase why the cloud is relevant to the enterprise, May 17-21. Learn how virtualization and the coming Converged Enhanced Ethernet standard are making networking matter more than ever, at the Las Vegas conference May 17-21. Attendees of the Las Vegas conference May 17 - 21 can learn how cloud computing and social networking can give a lift to return on investment. The partnership shows that neither vendor is sitting still as Oracle contemplates opportunities for hardware-software combos with its planned acquisition of Sun. Redmond is using partners to push hosted offerings deeper into the corporate market. The vSphere 4 suite is meant to help the enterprise generate an internal cloud of x86 servers, then align it with external clouds. HP works with Cloud Assure customers to assess their IT environments' readiness for cloud computing and to monitor and manage the security and availability of cloud-based apps. The VoIP service will only work over Wi-Fi, but it will enable free Skype-to-Skype calls and cheaper international calls to landlines. |
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