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Oct 16th, 2006 |
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This podcast is the second in a two-part conversation I had with Richard Wolf, the General Manager for Office Graphics Services at Microsoft. Wolf oversees Visio and Powerpoint, and in this podcast, he talks about the new features and capabilities of Powerpoint 2007.
(In case you missed it, here is part 1, which focuses on Visio.)
Oct 12th, 2006 |
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In this podcast, I talk to Richard Wolf, the General Manager for Office Graphics Services at Microsoft. Wolf oversees two major business applications within the Microsoft Office suite: Visio and Powerpoint. In this podcast, which is the first in a two-part series, Wolf talks about the new features and capabilities of Visio 2007, the upcoming version of Microsoft’s drawing and diagramming application. Wolf and I met at Interop New York, where he was showing off the upcoming version and all of the great new features it has for IT managers. In part 2 of this podcast interview, which will be released next Monday, Wolf will explain what users can expect from Powerpoint 2007.
Sep 21st, 2006 |
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In this podcast, Steve Hultquist, the team lead for the Network Access Control (NAC) Initiative in the Interop Labs, explains what his team is presenting at Interop New York. If you haven’t heard about it, the NAC Initiative is exploring the NAC frameworks from Microsoft, Cisco and Trusted Computing Group, and presenting their findings at the InteropLabs booth on the expo floor. Hultquist tells a bit about what they’ve learned. (Note: there is also an earlier podcast with Steve, which took place last Spring prior to Interop Las Vegas. Here’s that one.)
Sep 20th, 2006 |
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Here at Interop New York, Tideway Systems is showing off Foundation — an appliance that plugs into a network, and then autodiscovers and catalogs all the IP-facing devices on it. Foundation can model enterprise networks from the perspective of business applications and services, right down into the technology layers. Today Kosten Metreweli, Tideway’s VP of Marketing & Alliances, explained to me how Foundation can help companies, and talked up a new managed service his company is announcing this week at the show.
Have you heard of Augur Systems? Augur is 9 years old, but it’s been flying under the radar most of that time — getting business mostly by word-of-mouth. At Interop New York, the company is hoping to change that — it’s launching verion 4 of its event management and notification system. Augur 4 is designed to handle lots of events requiring the expertise of lots of people, and has a number of built-in tools for qualifying its alerts, as CEO Chris Janicki explains.
Sep 20th, 2006 |
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At Interop New York, Network General is launching its NetworkDNA initiative. NetworkDNA is a suite of products that allow organizations to access, manage, and share network performance information. In this interview, James Messer, a technical marketing manager at Network General, explains what it’s all about.
Sep 19th, 2006 |
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Four months ago at Interop Las Vegas, I sat down with Nortel and learned about their new line of secure routers — a result of Nortel’s acquisition of Tasman. This week at Interop New York, I caught up with Bob Reason again, and he told me about some companies that have rolled out these routers. He also talked briefly about Nortel’s new IPT 1-2-3 program — a VoIP product bundle aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses. Here’s the interview.
Sep 19th, 2006 |
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Here’s a conversation I had with Keith Vozel of Stampede, one of the exhibitors at Interop New York that’s making a product announcement today. Vozel describes his company’s new Internet acceleration system, Acceleration On-Demand. The new technology speeds up web page load times by automatically injecting code into the data stream from an appliance straight to a user’s machine, so no software needs to be installed by IT on individual PCs. The result: performance increases for web applications (making users happy) and data bandwidth reductions (making IT happy).
Sep 18th, 2006 |
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Greetings from New York! I spent most of today in meetings with exhibitors, getting the scoop on product announcements going on this week. In this interview, I talk with Dwight Barker, who discusses two major announcements that Network Physics around its NetSensory line of application performance monitoring appliances. NetSensory products offer real-time assessment of what’s going on at the packet level on the network, which helps companies tune their networks for technologies such as VoIP and database-intensive applications. In fact, the InteropNet even uses them!
Here’s a conversation with Mike Skripek, a Senior Field Evangelist for Network Security at Extreme Networks. Skripek is setting up various security systems on the InteropNet to encrypt traffic between the NOCs, and to identify and quarantine incoming worms and viruses from the Internet. The cornerstone of this defense is Extreme’s Sentriant family of security appliances, and Skripek explains their role on the InteropNet.
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