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Watch demos of Intel's webpad-based Health Guide for seniors, at the New York City launch of Intel's $250-million alliance with GE.

In this special "ReviewCam" edition of Interop Insider, InformationWeek editor-at-large David Berlind sits down with Splunk co-founder Michael Baum to get a demonstration of the company's namesake product.

Intel chief sales and marketing officer Sean Maloney sits down with InformationWeek's Alex Wolfe, on the occasion of the launch of the Xeon 5500 Nehalem server processor, for a wide-ranging discussion.

Hyper9 enables IT organizations to efficiently and effectively manage todays dynamic virtualized environment by providing visibility and control, all in an easy-to-navigate application.

Internet Evolution's Web Wide World takes us to Rwanda, a country torn apart by genocide, and now attempting a radical transformation from an agrarian society to a knowledge-based economy, via the Internet

In our Chalk Talk with Avocent CTO Ben Grimes, we get a first-hand look at some of the challenges with managing power, including a look at some of the tools Avocent offers to help with this.

In our Chalk Talk with Avocent CTO Ben Grimes, we discuss some of the challenges managing virtual environments.

Asset Management has always been a critical part of management the life cycle of your IT infrastructure. Avocent CTO Ben Grimes walks us through a hands-on look at how his company's technology helps.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini demonstrates and discusses the future of collaboration and talks about Intels business model, including how it approaches R&D.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini demonstrates and discusses the future of collaboration and talks about Intels business model, including how it approaches R&D.

Some of the most influential cloud players discuss the future challenges and opportunities in Cloud Computing on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit.

Some of the most influential cloud players discuss the future challenges and opportunities in Cloud Computing on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit.

IBM Chairman Emeritus Irving Wladawsky-Berger talks about cloud as the next evolution in computing, saying that it's a response to end-user frustration with complexity.

Art Wittmann of InformationWeek spoke with John Whaley, Co-Founder and CTO of Mokafive about their technology.

Huge media files flying around the Internet deal with a great deal of network contention, but Aspera promises a high speed file transfer mechanism that it claims can get the full capacity of the pipe, regardless of underlying network congestion.

EdgeCast, a leading CDN provider, talks about the latest Internet-only Michael Moore feature film, as well as about EdgeCast's wholesale business model.

Accelerating content, especially video, is a game of intelligence and muscle involving many parts and pieces. Ara's Jaguar is a high performance caching engine geared to deliver.

BitGravity is part of a new breed of Content Delivery Networks that promise to make video distribution faster and more efficient. More to the point, BitGravity promises to stream HD video and also claims expertise in streaming live video.

Startup Transera provides on-demand contact centers

Startup's switches ramp up blade server performance

The startup manages large-scale Web infrastructures to prevent downtime related to configuration changes

Founder and CEO Barry Thompson says his company's switch appliance can streamline the processes by combining networking technology with middleware software to send data to the appropriate destination.

March Madness 2008 Was Carried In Full On The Internet, On Demand Thanks To The Technology Innovations of CBS Sports and CBS Interactive

The Internet's influence is much in evidence in Poland's capital city – despite the best efforts of the French to bollocks it up.

Iceland wants to become the No. 1 destination for companies looking to outsource their green IT data centers

Aerohive's WiFi architecture goes against the current trend of dumb access points and smart controls by putting the brains at the access point

Karl Triebes of F5 makes the argument for a specialized application traffic processing layer, citing technologies such AJAX as benefiting

Foundry Networks VP and GM Bob Schiff explains how the company's engineering focus differentiates it from Cisco.

Traffic is represented by sites and sounds rather than classical maps with a technology called Netcosim

Groundwork OpenSource targets the Big Four IT management vendors with an open approach

Groundwork OpenSource offers open source IT management software

Transera lets you host call center agents from anywhere in the world

Blade Network Technologies sells switches to improve blade server performance

Hyperic monitors Web application infrastructure

Noritsu's new printer is smaller than competing products and uses ink jet cartridges instead of chemicals

BMC believes its leading the charge toward business process management. Bishop describes the future of the open CMDB (bleek) and other enabling technologies

BlueCat execs describe their approach to managing IP addresses.

CEO Russel Stern extolls the virtues of his 10 Gbps products including a switch and some NICs

Tom Raffery of the Cork Internet Exchanger looks at technology to save energy by throttling demand. Utilities would raise prices during peak demand periods, and appliances would be smart enough to schedule their own work when prices are low.

Perry Wu, CEO and co-founder of BitGravity, describes meeting the challenge of delivering Internet video at desktop speeds. Previous content delivery networks were optimized for text and images, but streaming video presents new bandwidth problems.

We Talk To Several Experts To Get Some Helpful Tips On Planning Your Next Server Migration

Chip-maker Aquantia Wants To Accelerate The Adoption of 10G Base-T By Lowering Per Port Cost And Power Consumption In Higher Density Switches

Panduit's PanView iQ Offers A Deep, Intelligent Look Into Your Network, All From The Patch Panel

India looks to broadband connectivity and fiber optic cable projects as major engines for economic development as it prepares for a huge uptick in demand for online access from consumers and businesses.

The tech chief of trucking company Con-Way talks about her defiant nature and how it helps her to succeed in IT.

Nat Semi's CIO discusses his aggressive use of virtualization, and why it's good for a CIO to fail.

Interviews with the winner and a runner up of the first annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Innovation awards

CEO Mike Zafirovski articulates the company assets but says it was overly complex to make decisions and assign accountability.

Eric Bozich walks through the thinking that companies bring to disaster planning in distributed organizations.

CEO Jerry Kennelly explains that today's problems aren't just caused by the quantity of network traffic, they're caused by inefficient applications

Chambers discusses why it settled over the iPhone trademark, why the patent systems broken, and whether there's a U.S. IT talent shortage.

The glitz and glamour of Interop 2007

Interop 2007 was a turning point for the industry in terms of the resurgence of the importance and utility of IT. Exuberent growth at Interop along with the business focused topics reflects that.

Our Judges Selected Some of The Most Groundbreaking Technology at Interop 2008, Including Overall Best of Show

New Version of BlueCat's IP Address Management Adds Workflow, User Interface Improvements and Other Changes

Juniper Is Consolidating In The Branch With Enhancements to the Junos Operating System, and More Functionality Thru Modules Like The ISM -- Full Featured WAN and App Acceleration

Foundry's BigIron Layer 3 Backbone Switch Will Come With 16 Port Modules of 10Gig, But With Even Lower Power Consumption

Founder and CEO Barry Thompson says his company's switch appliance can streamline the processes by combining networking technology with middleware software to send data to the appropriate destination.

London Startup Makes Dumb Devices Web Smart Over Cellular Networks

GM's tech leader talks about consolidating, re-engineering, upgrading the company's application infrastructure.

Google Apps Business Development Manager Jeff Keltner busts some of the most common myths about cloud computing.

Adam Selipsky, the Vice President of Product Management and Developer Relations with Amazon Web Services, describes why Amazon is a cloud-based service provider worth using.

Government agencies must protect private data. The CIO of California's Public Utilities Commission talks about her concerns about privacy in the cloud computing model.

The CIO of Sudler & Hennessey talks about what the right applications for the cloud are -- and concludes that while office apps and databases may fit there, graphics intensive apps do not.

Northeastern's CIO still needs to be convinced that the cloud is the best place for his applications; and he needs to know none of the players are going to lock him in.

Startup XKoto makes Gridscale, an active-active infrastructure for databases that provides not only high (or continuous) availability, but also scalability.

Startup Virtual Iron has a maturing virtual server technology that is making inroads with customers and providing a challenge to VMWare.

Microsoft Windows Server Group Product Manager, Manlio Vecchiet answers questions about Hyper V, network access protection and the adoption to date of Windows Server 2008.

Instead of spending money on more security infrastructure for your virtual environment, Solera's V2P Tap promises to regenerate the virtual traffic to your existing security infrastructure, thereby protecting your investment.

Riverbed's new operating system optimizes Exchange 2007 and Oracle 11i and offers branch offices virtualized services without additional hardware.

Splunk wins Best of Interop award. Search capability looks at log data across devices.

Microsoft GM of Virtualization, Mike Neil, on the State of Virtualization, Hyper V and Windows 2008

Device Server Technology Enables Companies to Have Secure Remote Access to Equipment Inside the Corporate Firewall

Siemens has an end-to-end HD videoconference solution that can outfit a desktop, a meeting room, a board room and more.

Quickbase Database as a Service Is Being Exposed For Rich Application Developers For Some Surprising New Apps

Fibre Channel Over Ethernet Is Catching On As Data Centers Consolidate and Server and Storage Virtualization Takes Off

Likewise Software Lets You Take Advantage of Active Directory Infrastructure Across Linux, Windows and Mac Systems

Data Warehouse Appliance Promises Database Transparence, Mixed BI Workload, Massive Scalability