Interviews with industry experts and analysts that give you a high-level view of the networking landscape.
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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.
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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)
July 24, 2008
Terracotta CEO Amit Pandey talks with Network World's Jason Meserve about his company's system for scaling Java applications
that use a database backend, which helps limit network traffic and database licenses. (13:40)
July 22, 2008
With the new iPhone featuring third-party and corporate applications, more users are going to be demanding mobile access to
applications. Vaultus Mobile CEO David Birnbach explains the challenges to getting existing applications working in a mobile
environment. (12:40)
July 16, 2008
Splunk's take on corporate search is not to help find keywords in a document, rather its to help IT staff wade through mountains
of log and configuration files. Erik Swan, Splunk's CTO, talks about how Splunk works, how you can get it for free and the
driving force behind the company's tools. (12:36)
July 14, 2008
What happens when your virtual server farm fails? Marathon Technologies hopes its customers won't even notice. The company
is pushing its line of fault-tolerant systems into the virtual space with EverRunVM. Jerry Melnick, CTO at Marathon, explains
how the technology works. (13:30)
July 09, 2008
Outsourcing software development is a routing practice, but how do you know your externally developed code is not rife with
malicious code or backdoors? Matt Moynahan, CEO of Veracode, discusses his company's system for examining code (even when
its already made into a binary) with Network World's Jason Meserve. (12:51)
July 08, 2008
Enterprises continue to employ staff to read or analyze the contents of outbound e-mail. Keith Shaw talks with Proofpoint's
Keith Crosley about why companies continue to do this, and what the top concerns of IT are for 2008 regarding outgoing messages (23:13).
June 30, 2008
Latency is something network managers want to avoid at all costs. Endace Founder Ian Graham talks with Senior Editor Denise
Dubie about how the New Zealand vendor's Ninja platform can measure network latency, queueing and packet loss to guarantee
peak application performance and help network managers create an environment that responds at the speed of today's business
demands. (11:58)
June 26, 2008
A new energy-efficient supercomputer that uses a third of the energy of a conventional system is being tested out at Purdue
University. Gerry McCartney, vice president of information technology and CIO at the school, explains how the system works
and what the university and its researchers are hoping to get out of electricity sipping system. (11:12)
June 25, 2008
Yes, Apple's newest iPhone only runs on 3G networks, but carriers are already preparing for a 4G future featuring faster speeds
and better applications. Dan McBride of Stoke joins Jason Meserve to talk about 4G technologies such as LTE and WiMAX, how
carriers are going "green" and what consumers can expect for the future of wireless. (16:09)
June 23, 2008
As gas prices continue to climb, companies are finding teleworking more appealing, but are they ready for the IT support costs
involved as employees begin to use home PCs, systems and broadband connections to connect to work? Michael Wexler, CEO of HiWired, discusses these issues and the types of IT problems that most home workers are experiencing these days (18:49).
June 18, 2008
For David Parker, director on information systems at Baylor Medical School, power and heat in the data center are a major
concern, particularly when researchers working on the Human Genome Project are asking for Terabytes of additional storage
and running processes on 3.3 billion DNA pairs. Parker shares his strategies for keeping the data center cool and lowering
power consumption while still providing enough horsepower to researches. (19:09)
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