According to these leaders of the Web 2.0 movement, businesses can stimulate collaboration from within by adopting blogs, wikis, RSS, AJAX and other tools and services. Jointly conducting a keynote address at the Fall ’06 Interop meetup in New York [See the full post…]

New developments in technology are having an impact on businesses and organizations, sometimes in unexpected or challenging ways. John Swainson, president and chief executive officer of CA, used a keynote address at Interop 2006, in New York City earlier this [See the full post…]

Scott Cassell, director of product management at Qwest Communications proposes that the role of telecoms has to change, as we approach a future of unified communication, with the integration of wireless, VoIP, presence, conferencing and messaging. He spoke at the [See the full post…]

According to ConSentry Networks Vice President of Marketing Dan Leary, LAN security perimeters have changed, given that security threat sources can come from within (and not just from outside) the LAN. Leary spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at INTEROP 2006 [See the full post…]

Interop goes to the Big Apple for its second U.S. IT event this year. PodTech’s Michael Johnson takes to the floor and talks with a few of the exhibitors: Netcordia, CA, Inc., and Network General. More images from Interop 2006

Real Time Enterprise, Practical Steps & Future Networks: At Interop 2006 in New York City, Scott Kriens speaks about the practical side of growing the emerging network, and the path to a point where people, devices, machines and information can [See the full post…]

Join PodTech’s Michael Johnson at Interop 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada for part 4 of the Sounds of Interop, featuring exhibitors from the floor, including EMC Corporation, NetScout, and AirMagnet. Links: emc.com netscout.com airmagnet.com

Join PodTech’s Michael Johnson at Interop 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada for the final installmentof the Sounds of Interop 2006, featuring Avaya, Netgear, and Trusted Computing Group. Links: avaya.com netgear.com trustedcomputinggroup.org

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 3, 2006 (PodTech News) — Consumer demand has driven innovation, especially in consumer products. It’s driving enterprise innovation, too, but that doesn’t mean infrastructure companies are going to be making mp3 players anytime soon. It’s more [See the full post…]

Join PodTech’s Michael Johnson at Interop 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada for part 3 of the Sounds of Interop, featuring exhibitors from the floor, including ConSentry, Expand Networks, MIR3, Highwall, and Safenet. For more info see: www.consentry.com www.expand.com www.mir3.com www.highwalltech.com [See the full post…]

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 3, 2006 (PodTech News) — The general manager of Google Enterprise, Dave Girouard, concluded his Interop keynote with a sales pitch: Google OneBox for the enterprise. “A lot of what we do on Google, we actually [See the full post…]

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 3, 2006 (PodTech News) — The general manager of Google Enterprise, Dave Girouard, devoted his morning Interop keynote to the importance of consumer technology to enterprise technology companies. “Consumer technology is driving innovation,” he told a [See the full post…]

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 3, 2006 (PodTech News) — The CEO of Juniper Networks, Scott Kriens, says the challenge to the networking industry is to build open systems. “We’ve got to change as an industry from multiple simultaneous competing proprietary [See the full post…]

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 2, 2006 (PodTech News) — Juniper CEO Scott Kriens took the keynote stage at the Interop conference in Las Vegas this morning and outlined several serious problems facing the developers of networking products, including security and [See the full post…]

Join PodTech’s Michael Johnson as he roams the floors and hallways of the Mandalay Bay Hotel Convention Center, talking with M-Systems, Crescendo Networks, and Viking Interworks about connectivity, security, and wireless data management. More info at: http://www.msystems.com http://www.crescendonetworks.com http://www.vikinginterworks.com

Join PodTech’s Michael Johnson for part 2 of the sounds of Interop, featuring Blue Coat, D-Link, Network Automation, and Vernier Networks.

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 2, 2006 (PodTech) — Cisco CEO John Chambers closed his Interop keynote speech arguing that networks which foster collaboration must serve the end user. “You talk about a bandwidth hog, it will be,” Chambers cautioned. “Think [See the full post…]

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 2, 2006 (PodTech News) — Citing a “new digital culture” Cisco CEO John Chambers said the delivery of audio and video would usher in a new wave of collaboration in which hardware and software would work [See the full post…]

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 2, 2006 (PodTech News) — The CEO of Cisco Systems, John Chambers, says the transportation industry would significantly benefit from his company’s concept of unified collaboration. He welcomed a Cisco executive to the stage who showed [See the full post…]

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 2, 2006 (PodTech News) — Cisco CEOJohn Chambers told an Interop keynote audience his company is so committed to the concept of unified collaboration that it borrowed money for the first time in its history in [See the full post…]

LAS VEGAS, NV, May 2, 2006 (PodTech News) — Cisco CEO John Chambers, who delivered the opening keynote of the Interop conference in Las Vegas, says the next wave of innovation will be driven by user needs to collaborate in [See the full post…]

Brian Chee, a long time veteran of the InteropNET team and a team lead for wireless, talks with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about the greater effect of the Interoperability event, and its influence on consumers on the web, and enterprise. http://interop.com/lasvegas

Brian Chee, a long time veteran of the InteropNET team and a team lead for wireless, talks with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about assembling the network at Hot Stage, the technology behind it, its purpose, and its philosophy. Time: 13:34 http://www.interop.com/lasvegas/

Brian Chee, a long time veteran of the InteropNET team and a team lead for wireless, talks with PodTech’s Jason Lopez about the beginnings of the Interoperability event, in the mid-eighties. Hot Stage happens a month before Interop. A huge [See the full post…]

PodTech’s Fresh Voices will be in Las Vegas covering Interop from beginning to end (April 30 – May 5). PodTech InfoTalk and PodTech News will bring you keynote speeches, candid interviews, first reviews of new products being shown, and all [See the full post…]