Valley View: Hot Trends, Cool Toys
Ep. 1 of Valley View, streamed live from our San Francisco headquarters, featured HP Chairman Ray Lane, Box.net CEO Aaron Levie and Omar Baldonado of BigSwitch, a company synonymous with OpenFlow. Plus some of the hottest new gadgets.Infrastructure
Cisco CEO John Chambers Ready For BattleIt's been a tough couple years for Cisco CEO John Chambers, but he has emerged from the struggle just as spry and confident as ever. CRN editor-at-large Chad Berndtson sits down with Chambers to talk about the competition and the future.
Fusion-io: Flash Memory For The Data CenterFusion-io's Gary Orenstein says that his company's purpose is to make the world's data go faster. Fusion-io offers flash-based memory for the data center, along with a host of software products to manage it all.
Kontiki's Enterprise Content Delivery Network: An Elevator PitchKontiki's CEO, Dan Vetras, talks about a different approach to delivering content like video inside the network, potentially obviating the need for WAN acceleration solutions.
Huawei Continues To Take On Cisco In The Enterprise With CloudEngineChinese manufacturer, Huawei, announced CloudEngine, a data center switch, at Interop Las Vegas 2012, further demonstrating its intention to go toe-to-toe with Cisco.
McAfee Adds Scale, VMWare Support To Security PlatformMcAfee announced three new additions to its security family at Interop in Las Vegas this week, including an improvement in performance and scalability, and some enhancements to its support for virtual environments.
Gigamon Visualizes Virtualization TrafficAt Interop, Gigamon announced GigaVUE-VM, so administrators can look at the same traffic flows, but this time between virtual machines -- again, setup and defined down to the application (including custom applications, by the way).
Zynga, Proton Media DataSift & ARM on Valley ViewMobile, Social Analytics, Collaboration, and Cloud just happen to be the hottest topics in technology, and the subjects of the April 24 episode of our monthly, live web show Valley View, featuring ARM, DataSift, Proton Media, Zynga, and more!
Arista Puts Real-Time Apps On New SwitchArista, already known for its ultra low latency switches, unveiled its AppSwitch 7124FX. Andy Bechtolsheim, the company's founder, and CDOr, and one of the valley's most decorated entrepreneurs explains the importance of this new offering.
Piston Cloud Demos Enterprise OpenStack DistributionOpenStack provides a standard framework for cloud delivery, but it's not a product. Piston Cloud, launched by co-Founder and CEO Joshua McKenty, provides that product, making it easy to configure and deploy a private cloud.
Valley View: Private Cloud, Cloud Apps, Cloudy ThoughtsInformationWeek's Valley View goes in depth with Arista founder Andy Bechtolsheim, Salesforce.com co-Founder Parker Harris, Evernote CEO Phil Libin, and Piston Cloud CEO Joshua McKenty.
Valley View: Hot Trends, Cool ToysEp. 1 of Valley View, streamed live from our San Francisco headquarters, featured HP Chairman Ray Lane, Box.net CEO Aaron Levie and Omar Baldonado of BigSwitch, a company synonymous with OpenFlow. Plus some of the hottest new gadgets.
HP Chairman Ray Lane: Focus On InnovationAs HP emerges from one of the most tumultuous years in its history, the company's Chairman talks about how the company will tackle the competition, and return to its roots of invention and innovation.
How OpenFlow Changes NetworkingOpenFlow is a new standard made for virtualized server environments. It is a software-defined way of controlling network traffic, completely changing their architecture. BigSwitch, one of the early players, shows us at the Valley View Whiteboard.
CEO of salesforce.com speaks to the impact of Social Media on enterprise decision-makingMarc Benioff, CEO of salesforce.com, uses social media as a way to gauge the reaction of consumers to the enterprise decisions surrounding their lives. What will the future of enterprise-consumer relationships look like?
FedEx CIO Rob Carter: Dominant DesignOne of the world's well-known CIOs provides an in depth look at how FedEx is building its data centers of the future. Carter discusses the trend toward "dominant design" -- the ability to leverage standards for speed and competitive advantage.
HP Chairman Ray Lane On VisionHP's Chairman, Ray Lane, sat down for an exclusive fireside chat and discussed the company's strategy, product direction and some of the missteps in communicating all of that to its customers.
CA's 3Tera AppLogic Graphically Deploys Stacks To Data CentersAt Cloud Connect 2011 in Silicon Valley, TechWeb's David Berlind gets a demonstration of CA's recently acquired 3Tera AppLogic graphical private cloud deployment tool.
UMass Dartmouth Opens the Door to Scientific Discovery With New IBM TechnologyUMass Dartmouth Physics department completed research proving POWER7 is 5x-8x faster than Intel Xeon. Calculations that used to take a month to run now take less than a week.
Kubisys Takes Snapshots Of Production Environments For TestingAt Interop NYC 2010, Kubisys shows InformationWeek TV how to use its appliance to take a snapshot of a entire production environment, and then to do regression testing of patches and upgrades against that (instead of the production setup).
Napatech’s Line-Speed Ethernet Accelerators Target Appliance OEMsAt Interop NYC 2010, InformationWeek TV gets a look at Napatech's line speed "accelerated" Ethernet adapters. Using acceleration firmware, the adapters do the heavy lifting of transmission and capture so a system's CPUs don't have to break a sweat.
Interop Tchotchke Report: Attendee Scores A Bag Of SchwagAt Interop NYC 2010, InformationWeek's Fritz Nelson finds an attendee roaming the floor with a bag so full of schwag that would make most professioanl trick-or-treaters jealous.
Alertsite Adds Mobile Performance To Its Web App Benchmarking SuiteAlertsite was at Interop 2010 NYC and gave InformationWeekTV a demo of how its ability to test Web application performance from anywhere in the world can now be used to test the performance of the mobile end-user’s experience.
Citrix Delivers Virtual Desktops And Apps To iPad And Other Mobile DevicesAt Interop NYC 2010, InformationWeek TV gets a demonstration of how now, in addition to delivering virtualized desktops and Windows apps to PCs and Macs, Citrix can also deliver them to mobile devices including iPads, iPhones, and Android devices.
NTRglobal: Manage Mobile & Desktop Apps From The CloudAs more software is offered as a cloud service, many CIOs are reluctant to move precious data and key apps to the cloud. But some important, but less strategic items make sense. NTRglobal puts asset and event management in its hosted service.
Maestro 3 Heterogeneously Choreographs, Automates App Dev LifecycleAt Interop NYC, Maestro Dev showcased its latest Maestro 3 app dev choreography environment -- a cloud-based solution that stitches together the discreet steps (build, test, deploy, etc.) of application development, using existing tools for each step
WildPackets: 10Gig-Ready Packet CaptureWildPackets brand new packet capture system at 11.6 Gbps will make your enterprise 10 Gig-ready. Of course, this doesn't come cheap.
Quest Manages Anytime, Anywhere, Any Device To Any Virtual DesktopFrom the show floor at Interop 2010 in NYC, InformationWeek TV gets a demonstration of Quest Software’s vWorkspace virtual desktop and application management solution.- Alertsite Adds Mobile Performance To Its Web App Benchmarking SuiteAlertsite was at Interop 2010 NYC and gave InformationWeekTV a demo of how its ability to test Web application performance from anywhere in the world can now be used to test the performance of the mobile end-user’s experience.
LifeSize: Less Expensive, High Quality TelepresenceLifeSize introduced several enhancements to its telepresence solutions, including a 10x high def camera for its room-based systems, an executive solution in partnership with LG, and new MCUs for high-def multipoint video.
Net Optics Director Helps Conquer Spans InadequaciesThere are lots of problems with using Spans ports, and usage is starting to decline, especially because they can introduce errors. Net Optics Director provides a better return on investement because it can isolate key traffic.
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