Hello all, David Spark here. Here’s my show report for the second and final day of Interop. I should qualify that it’s not necessarily all the news, but it’s what I was able to get to on the final day.

Over the past three days, I’ve done a ton of coverage. All the links can be found below, but if you just want to go to the best stuff, I’d recommend you read my article on Clay Shirky’s keynote presentation, Marie Hattar of Cisco’s virtualization presentation, and the top issues from CIO Boot Camp. As for videos, definitely check out my interviews with Clay Shirky, Tim O’Reilly, and Thornton May. I also enjoyed the lively post-lunch round table discussion on why IT professionals demand such a high salary and the tour of the Interop network. Plus, you’ll also want to watch my show report from day 1.

Here’s the complete coverage from Interop NYC, 2008:

• Announcement roundup, Day 2
• Tim O’Reilly on mobilizing people and devices to aid world issues
• Information overload is an old issue, Clay Shirky says you need to rethink and redefine your filters
• Announcement roundup, day 1
• Improving enterprise productivity through mobile
• Virtualization allows you to focus on strategy rather than infrastructure
• Collaboration mitigates information overload
• Making IT work as one
• Energy Camp launches @ Interop_NY
• Simplification and optimization is the key to green IT
• Defining personal/social networks in the workforce
• Managing the people of IT
• CIO Boot Camp @ Interop_NY: Top issues
• Start up guide to greening your IT…

Videos

• Wrap up of Mobile Business Expo with general manager, Steve Wylie
• Wrap up of Interop with general manager, Lenny Heymann
• Reimage.com fixes computers automatically and remotely
• Tandberg flexible telepresence solution
• Vidyo video conferencing with intelligent video routing
• PhoneFactor delivers two-factor authentication through your phone
• VoIP, VoIP security, Wi-Fi, ethernet switching, cloud computing, and other issues on attendees’ minds
• ImageStream’s low cost routers and a gorilla
• Clay Shirky on the architecture of filters to manage information
• Tim O’Reilly on the business benefits of social responsibility
• Show report, Day 1
• Polycom’s CMA 5000 for managing video conferencing across the enterprise
• Palm shows off Treo Pro and how it interfaces with Redfly
• Mobile artistry and Nokia
• Ozzy Osborne at Nokia?
• A video tour of the Interop network
• McAfee’s Reconnex delivers third generation data loss prevention products
• Telepresence with LifeSize
• Marie Hattar of Cisco on the business value of virtualization
• Why do IT professionals demand such a high salary?
• Thornton May answers the chicken and egg question regarding change within the workplace
• Save energy costs by temporarily shutting off your redundant servers
• David Berlind on how the unconference format is always relevant
• CIOs must be seen as a credible business player
• Tell me what you’re going to do for my company and deliver

Photos

• David Berlind’s photos from Energy Camp.
• Alex Dunne’s photos from Interop, CIO Boot Camp, and Mobile Business Expo

On the second and final day of the show, I spoke again to even more companies. I got to some more show announcements and a few updates to some other products. Once again, I shot a lot of video with many of them, but for everyone else, here’s a round up. Once again, some of these announcements are months old.

Eaton BladeUPS - New line of UPS devices from Eaton that fit in a blade server. They boast 97% power utilization of which they claim 92% is the standard thus saving money on energy costs. Their solutions are scalable from 12 kW up to 60 kW.

Stampede Technologies - Offer a software-based WAN optimization solution, priced lower for the SMB market. Their announcement is that they’re starting to sell through the OEM channel. The plan is their software on a Linux box will be considerably cheaper than competitors Riverbed and Cisco with their hardware based solutions. The rep claims that in a situation with 10 offices and 10 people in each office it would cost $70-$100K with Riverbed or Cisco. With the Stampede solution he claims the same scenario would cost $30-$40K.

Xceedium - Secure remote access to untrusted high-risk technical access. What that means is you can give proper deep access to contractors who are working on your network, but still audit, isolate, and contain them. The new 620 model for SMBs allows for 20 devices and costs $10K. Kind of pricey, but as the rep argues that’ll be nothing if you run into legal issues.

Bluecat Networks - Proteus IP address management appliance allows you to tag your IP addresses within your company. The new announcement is they’ve added workflow which allows you to delegate management of the IP space. Costs range from $2 to $80K.

Solera Networks - A deep packet capture application for security forensics. What that means is when information is coming in through the network, they capture all of the information, not just the server logs. Combined with that is their search engine, DeepSee. You would use Solera’s product to identify what information was taken during a security breach. After you fix the problem you can actually play back the scenario in a safe environment to see what happens.

SalesNOW - Combined CRM tool for BlackBerry and Web. Not nearly as functional as Salesforce, but the cost for Web and BlackBerry is $25/month per user. Very attractive to small businesses and SOHOs.

RoboForm Enterprise - I’m a huge fan of this password memorization application. I’ve been using their USB key version, Pass2Go, for about three years. They’ve got an enterprise version that allows network managers to deploy the password memorization application out to the staff.

Make sure you check out the summary of all coverage from Interop NY.

At the end of the show today I spoke with Steve Wylie, general manager of Mobile Business Expo. I just wanted to get his insight on some of the hot issues discussed over the past few days. Not surprisingly, smartphones in the enterprise was a hot topic. It’s been a top issue for many years even though we haven’t seen adoption taken off at the pace of the talk. But we may be seeing a turning point simply because traditional apps are moving to handheld devices, there’s an increase of smartphones in the marketplace, and the introduction of the iPhone and the number of applications available on that device. Other issues we talked about was the feasibility of completely unwiring your office and social networking on mobile devices is the new frontier.

Make sure you check out the summary of all coverage from Interop NY.

I talked with Lenny Heymann, general manager of Interop, the guy who runs the whole show. He’s been with the show for years so I asked his perspective of what was the buzz on the show floor. We talked about cloud computing, virtualization, SaaS, unified messaging, and mobility in the enterprise.

Make sure you check out the summary of all coverage from Interop NY.

For years I’ve seen online solutions that offer the ability to scan to see what’s wrong with your computer. Then it points you to drivers to fix it. Reimage.com offers a complete solution that will scan and fix your computer by downloading and installing necessary updates. It’s a reactive software meaning you need to see something’s going wrong to request a Reimage.com solution. Costs for a scan for a few users is about $40 per user and it goes down from there. They’ve got other videos on their site that explain how their product works.

Make sure you check out the summary of all coverage from Interop NY.

Tandberg’s telepresence lets users divide up and change the view for its telepresence solution. It looks cool, but I wish they didn’t have canned video and actually had live people you could interact with like what they did in the LifeStream presentation.

Make sure you check out the summary of all coverage from Interop NY.

Vidyo is a video conferencing solution that has an intelligent video routing solution that has constant communications between the endpoint (the user) and the router always serving up only the video that’s necessary for your endpoint, be it a giant HD screen or a small notebook computer, without transcoding which adds delay to the conference.

Make sure you check out the summary of all coverage from Interop NY.

PhoneFactor is a two factor authentication technology that works with your mobile phone. You log into a Web site and you get a call to your mobile phone. You acknowledge the call and it logs you into the Web site. With something you know (your password) and something you have (your mobile phone), they’re two ways to full biometrics. The PhoneFactor rep said, they’ve got full biometrics on the roadmap as they’re going to be including something you are, your voice.

Make sure you check out the summary of all coverage from Interop NY.

I sat down for lunch with a few of the attendees and just asked them what they came to Interop for and what they’ve learned. Everyone was looking for something different: VoIP, VoIP security, Wi-Fi your business, unified communications, ethernet switching, cloud computing, virtualization, and a lot more.

Make sure you check out the summary of all coverage from Interop NY.

Yes, you can have a funny gag in a small booth that’s fun for the attendees. ImageStream, a router manufacturer that competes directly with Cisco had a fun “dunk the Gorilla” game in their booth. The attraction was to point out, said the ImageStream representative, that you don’t need to put up with the 500 lb gorilla, Cisco, to buy routers. You can actually get cheaper and reliable routers from ImageStream.

Make sure you check out the summary of all coverage from Interop NY.