Interop will hit Las Vegas May 8-12 as this important tech event celebrates its 25th anniversary. The impact of virtualization and cloud computing on the network will be explored in depth, and the conference will tackle how social technologies, smartphones and other mobile devices will affect the future of work. Two days of workshops and a CIO Boot Camp are on the agenda Sunday and Monday, and then special guest star Vint Cerf will kick off the main portion of the conference in the Tuesday morning keynotes.
The network has long been king at Interop, the tech conference that will be celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2011. But networking "has fallen behind" over the past couple of years as a new emphasis on cloud computing and virtualization has taken hold, says Interop general manager Lenny Heymann. But now it's time to put the focus back on the network.
For those of you going to Las Vegas for Interop, here are 25 fun facts about the show and things to while you're there.
State Street Corporation says technology must evolve to meet the increasingly demanding needs of financial services, and within its own data centers is adopting new cloud-like technologies and placing a greater emphasis on Linux and open source.
In November, Red Hat acquired Makara, which offers application deployment and hosting in the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) model on top of either Amazon EC2 or Rackspace.
Microsoft did not realize how different smartphones are from PCs until recent software updates broke new Windows Phone 7 devices that were already in the hands of cell phone users, Windows Phone Vice President Joe Belfiore explained Wednesday in a keynote address at the MIX11 conference.
Two decades after creating the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee says humans have become so reliant on it that access to the Web should now be considered a basic right.
The former chief architect of NASA's Nebula cloud computing platform has founded a new company that will use the OpenStack project to bring cloud capabilities to enterprise customers.
Last week we reported that HPC company Cycle Computing built a 10,000-core cluster on the Amazon EC2 cloud service. Cycle CEO Jason Stowe boasted that the cluster was big enough to make the list of the world's Top 500 supercomputers -- if only it had been subjected to the required speed test. Well, it turns out there already is a cloud-based supercomputer on the Top 500 list -- and it was built by Amazon itself.
Microsoft, Apple, EMC and Oracle are continuing to pursue a deal for Novell's patents that will let the four companies split the patents four ways and immunise themselves from any potential lawsuits.
Google is trying to make <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-google-android-useful-resources-smartphones.html">Android</a> more appealing to businesses by adding IT administration tools to Google Apps that can encrypt Android tablets or remotely locate a lost Android phone and reset the PIN.
Our colleagues over at IDC caused some chuckles to break out across the tech world when they predicted that Microsoft's Windows phones will beat the iPhone in market share by 2015. Impossible! Absurd! seemed to be the default responses.
High-performance computing expert Jason Stowe recently asked two of his engineers a simple question: Can you build a 10,000-core cluster in the cloud?
The Windows 8 rumor mill is heating up, with talk that Microsoft has begun shipping to hardware makers an early build of the OS with a "ribbon" interface, enhanced support for tablets and a backup feature similar to the "Time Machine" available in Apple's Mac OS X.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/subnets/microsoft/">Microsoft</a> is boosting the price of a license that provides client access to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/windows.html">Windows</a> Server, SharePoint, Exchange and Systems Center, but is sweetening the deal by giving buyers access to a new endpoint <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> product and the new <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/092910-microsoft-office-communications-server.html">Lync</a> unified communications software.