7 Cool Products At Interop New York
Interop New York spotlights innovative products covering SDN, BYOD, PaaS, data center management, and more. Take a look.
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In its ninth year, Interop New York will showcase rapidly evolving technologies like cloud and data center management, mobile and BYOD, security, SDN, DevOps, and network performance. The conference kicks off on Monday, Sept. 29.
One category that's sure to be top of mind for conference-goers is software-defined networking, an emerging technology with market growth of almost 200% from 2012 to 2013, according to research from Infonetics. Infonetics predicts the market for SDN Ethernet switches and controllers will reach $18 billion by 2018.
And hardware is only part of package: new applications are being designed to take advantage of the automation, programmability and scale promised by SDN. Hewlett-Packard, sensing this trend, is unveiling its own SDN app store at Interop (featured here in our list of cool products).
In the ever-changing mobile space, BYOD and device management remain concerns for IT leaders as more employees demand to use personal smartphones and tablets at work. Wearable devices like smartwatches and smartglasses are in the nascent stage but all roads lead to aggressive enterprise adoption of wearables over the next few years. Gartner forecasts that the use of Google Glass and other smartglasses will help add more than $1 billion per year to company profits by 2017. Two companies with products on our list, JAMF Software and Mobile Helix, help companies tackle the arduous task of managing and securing mobile devices and apps.
And of course there's the network, the data center, and the cloud, all converging into one dynamic environment to manage. Products from ActiveState (cloud app dev and management) and Opengear (network and data center management) are good places to start to help bring order to this turbulent realm.
We also found room on this list for a non-software product that's still critical to an IT team's productivity: the desk. Workplace ergonomics company, Humanscale, will be on hand to showcase its state-of-the-art office chairs, desks, and monitor stands.
With 125 exhibitors setting up shop at Interop New York, there were many cool products to choose from. The following are seven standouts that caught our editors' eyes. This collection is not a definitive list, but a rather a jumping-off point for you to explore these products and others like them designed to address critical enterprise IT challenges.
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Seizing the SDN opportunity, Hewlett-Packard will feature its newly launched HP SDN App Store. The store -- the first enterprise-grade ecosystem for SDN apps, says the company -- lets customers buy network applications and download them for testing and deployment.
The store will offer four categories of apps:
The HP Circle: applications built and tested by HP.
The Premium Circle: applications that are top sellers and jointly tested by HP and partners.
The Partner Circle: applications that have been tested by HP partners and reviewed by HP.
The Community Circle: open-access and community-supported applications.
Eight applications are available for immediate download -- two developed by HP, and six developed by HP partners.
JAMF Software's flagship Casper Suite started as a MDM service for Apple products, but with Casper Suite 9 has expanded to provide BYOD support for both iOS and Android devices. The Casper Suite helps companies manage the BYOD programs they have in place. It works to reduce BYOD tensions that arise between users and IT over privacy by allowing enterprise IT to only inventory and remotely wipe corporate data (not personal data) from the phone. The suite also explicitly shows users what data and controls IT has access to so users can be assured their privacy and personal data is protected.
The Mobile Helix Link app lets business users quickly access work data, files, and workflows using personal smartphones and tablets. Link secures sensitive corporate data rather than the mobile device itself and can be deployed on premise or as a cloud service.
With Link, users can:
Securely access corporate email, calendar, and contacts, and receive notifications and save email for offline access.
Securely access Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF docs from document management systems including WorkSite, SharePoint, CIFS, and network file shares.
Save documents for secure offline use, search for files across networks, edit docs with Microsoft Office Online, and securely share docs with colleagues and customers.
Opengear will feature its flagship product, the IM7200 Infrastructure Manager, at Interop. The IM7200 helps IT teams manage network, server, and power infrastructure across data centers. The IM7200's out-of-band 4G LTE connections give IT teams wireless visibility into remote data centers even if wired connections aren't available.
If there's a network outage, the embedded 4G LTE modem in the IM7200 Infrastructure Manager give IT managers immediate communication with connected network devices so they begin troubleshooting faster, all without requiring their physical presence.
Opengear will feature the IM7200 and other remote management products in the Interop SDN Lab.
For application development and cloud management, ActiveState will showcase Stackato 3.4, its updated PaaS (platform-as-a-service) based on VMware's open-source Cloud Foundry platform. Stackato 3.4 includes app rollback, versioning, access to free clustering up to 20 GB RAM, and additional features that help enterprises make sure applications are available across data centers (including hybrid, on-premise, and public cloud).
Stackato includes built-in languages, frameworks, and services on a single cloud application platform, and provides security and support. Stackato can be downloaded for free and be used with up to 4 GB RAM in a single node. Users can request and install a free license key for up to 20 GB RAM in a cluster.
Software doesn't solve all problems. A big part of being productive is being ergonomically sound. And that means better workstation hardware. At Interop, workplace ergonomics company Humanscale will show off its latest height-adjustable desks, configurable monitor stands, and weight-sensitive, mesh-backed office chairs. The company will also demo how to connect, mount, and power multiple displays in seconds without the need for elaborate cables.
For security monitoring, ESET will highlight its Remote Administrator Plugin for Kaseya. The plugin integrates with Kaseya's Virtual System Administrator 6.5 and 7.0 to centrally manage ESET Endpoint security products across networks.
Administrators can deploy configurations to ESET clients, initiate scans and updates, view threat data, and generate reports using the Kaseya Info Center. The plugin removes the hassle of managing ESET and the Kaseya RMM platform separately, and is available for free with active licensees of many of the ESET desktop and server security products.
For security monitoring, ESET will highlight its Remote Administrator Plugin for Kaseya. The plugin integrates with Kaseya's Virtual System Administrator 6.5 and 7.0 to centrally manage ESET Endpoint security products across networks.
Administrators can deploy configurations to ESET clients, initiate scans and updates, view threat data, and generate reports using the Kaseya Info Center. The plugin removes the hassle of managing ESET and the Kaseya RMM platform separately, and is available for free with active licensees of many of the ESET desktop and server security products.
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