Interviews with industry experts and analysts that give you a high-level view of the networking landscape.
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October 08, 2008
Eric Armstrong, President of Kontiki, joins Jason Meserve in studio to talk about video and how legitimate peer-to-peer technology
can power its delivery across your corporate network and out to customers more efficiently. (15:28)
October 06, 2008
Joao Carreira, CEO of Critical Links, talks with Jason Meserve about Multi-Service Business Gateways, how they can deliver
core IT functionality to a small office in a single box and why they're not necessarily a single point of failure. (13:57)
October 03, 2008
With the ability to carry half a terabyte of data in the palm of your hand now a reality, the ways storage companies will
market personal storage is about to change. Keith Shaw sits down with Seagate's John van Bronkhorst to discuss how storage companies will try to explain the simplicity of expanding, protecting and moving data around rather
than marketing towards the fear of losing data. (9:19)
October 01, 2008
Vignette's been around since the beginning of Web content management. Much has changed in the market over the years, with new players and new media types entering the landscape. Vignette's Lee Shepstone and Tom Gilley join Jason Meserve to talk about the future of content management systems in the enterprise. (13:34)
September 25, 2008
A recent survey showed that every hour of application downtime costs companies more than $100,000; and companies have more
than 10 people on staff that manage application configuration changes. As companies look for ways to cut costs and comply
with federal regulations, can application automation help? Keith Shaw talks with Jim Hickey from mValent about the challenges of today's application infrastructure. (10:58)
September 22, 2008
For some reason, Sandals Resort customers were clamoring for better Wi-Fi access while vacationing in luxurious Carribean
locales. Bobby Stewart, the IT director that oversaw the rollout, explains how the company is delivering that access to all
of its properties through a new 802.11n-based mesh network that lets 'Net surfers browse while admiring the surf. (11:26)
September 17, 2008
Citrix Online's Bernardo de Albergaria talks about the demographics of online collaboration and how the technology has evolved
to help meet the needs of a growing number of telecommuters and remote workers. (10:30)
September 15, 2008
As brand-name hijacking (aka brandjacking) continues to haunt companies, new tactics based on grabbing identities through
social networking (Twitter-jacking, for example) are starting to appear on the landscape. Keith Shaw talks with Fred Felman from MarkMonitor about ways that companies can stay ahead of the social network hijacking curve. (16:45)
September 15, 2008
Virtualization is moving from a tactical tool to a strategic technology in many data centers. This trend calls for enterprise
IT managers to stop doling out resources in an ad hoc fashion and start adopting processes that will enable dynamic capacity
planning for their virtual environments. CiRBA CTO Andrew Hillier lays out how they can get started and how his company's
Data Center Intelligence technology can help them determine if Microsoft, VMware or Citrix best suits their needs. (15:23)
September 08, 2008
The Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) networks that run the valves and switches and telemetry systems in power
plants and industrial manufacturing facilities started out safe enough, but over the years have become linked to corporate
data networks tied to the Internet. That spells trouble. Security consultant Ira Winkler details the problem and describes
how he broke into a power company network (with permission). (15:18)
September 03, 2008
Who is Stonesoft? The Finland-based security company is making inroads in the U.S. market with its management-focuses StoneGate
line of security products. Paul Johnson, President of the Americas at Stonesoft, joins Jason Meserve in studio to talk about
the company, its products and how it is competing with the bigger players in the security market. (12:10)
August 27, 2008
SSL VPNs are the hot trend in remote access technology, but is it right for all applications? Jason Meserve talks with Chris
Witeck, director of product management at SonicWall, to find out where SSL VPNs fit in best, how they can be similar to NAC
and what the future holds for the technology. (12:13)
August 25, 2008
Network World podcast host and online contributor Ron Nutter joins Keith Shaw for a discussion of Ron's recent job search in IT after being let go from another company earlier this year.
What lessons were learned in trying to find an IT job in a tough economy? What worked? What didn't? Ron offers anecdotes and
tips for IT job hunters. (20:09)
August 20, 2008
As more apps and services move to the Web and mobile devices, people affected with low vision might have trouble utilizing
these programs. Dr. Aries Arditi from Lighthouse International talks with Keith Shaw about the latest in low vision technologies to help those affected deal with Web advances. (11:40)
August 18, 2008
x86 server virtualization gets all the attention these days, but enterprise IT execs ought not to forget the virtual mainframe
when considering where to run their big apps. Cirba CTO Andrew Hillier talks about how to figure out which apps can best take advantage of mainframe virtualization, as well as how to keep them
running optimally. (18:02).
August 18, 2008
We often hear the term "virtual data center," but what, exactly, does it mean? A virtual data center uses virtualization technology,
to be sure, and should rely on automation and some orchestration. But to what extent? Alan Murphy, a technical marketing manager with F5 Networks, has created the Virtual Data Center Maturity Model as a guide. Here he describes
the five levels. (26:50).
August 18, 2008
Virtualization providers are girding up for a battle royal over the hypervisor. Will it become a commodity, as Citrix Systems
and Microsoft say, or will it be a differentiator, as it is in VMware’s eyes? Playing referee, Dave Malcolm, CTO at Surgient, discusses how the enterprise will live in a multivendor hypervisor world. (17:13)
August 18, 2008
I/O bottlenecks are turning into a nasty problem on large-scale virtualized infrastructures. Ravi Chalaka, a vice president with Neterion, discusses how offloading hypervisor tasks from host software can help solve the problem.
(14:20)
August 13, 2008
As employees' personal and business lives continue to merge, the future cell phone they carry may be able to accommodate both
aspects of their lives through software virtualization technology. Peter Richards, CEO of VirtualLogix, discusses how tomorrow's
mobile device will be all things to all people. (18:54)
August 11, 2008
The debate around network access control continues. Is it too expensive to deploy? Shouldn't companies just wait until Cisco
and Microsoft's technology matures? Find out what's real and what's not in NAC with Keith Shaw and Stacey Lum, CEO of NAC vendor InfoExpress. (10:56)
August 08, 2008
Digital Rapids helped build the technology being used to stream this year's Summer Olympics live across the various NBC online
properties. Brick Eksten, president of Digital Rapids, discusses the technology being used and the challenges overcome in
this massive streaming effort. (13:42)
August 06, 2008
With Microsoft recently announcing e-mail hosting support for Exchange, the thought of moving e-mail services to the cloud
may be enticing to enterprises. Find out what is good, bad and awful about the idea of e-mail cloud computing as Keith Shaw
talks with Cemaphore Systems CEO Tyrone Pike about these issues. (15:22)
August 04, 2008
With more companies looking at cloud computing options to save money, questions of security and reliability pop up. Keith
Shaw talks with Steve Moyle, CEO and founder of Secerno, about the myths of cloud computing data security. Is your data truly safe in the cloud? (16:48)
July 30, 2008
Romanian-based BitDefender is on the front lines of the malware war with organized crime groups. Vince Hwang from BitDefender talks with Keith Shaw about the latest threats, the evolution of organized crime in the world of hacking,
and ways that businesses and consumers can protect themselves from the latest attacks. (20:27)
July 28, 2008
Part of unified communications' problems are that everyone defines it differently and there are not standards between vendors.
We dig into those issues with in-studio guest Bob Johnson, president and COO of Dialcom. (10:41)
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