Inside Interop Blog

This week's big news that the YouTube folks at Google acquired Omnisio is a pleasant reminder that there's plenty of room for innovation in the Net video space. InformationWeek's parent company TechWeb runs a lot of events (Web 2.0, Interop, Enterprise 2.0, etc.) and when we first heard of the Omnisio buy, we gave it a look-see given two very event-relevant features: First, the ability to integrate slide shows with video. Second, the way a ... Read more...

With the exception of a pipe bomb I once saw on the news, I don't think I've ever seen what a regular bomb looks like. Have you? It's an important question because the TSA is apparently willing to confiscate something (in this case, batteries) that it knows isn't a bomb, but that it still considers a threat because it looks like a bomb to other people (other people that don't know what a bomb looks ... Read more...

We had a big push this year to actually keep track of some of our more common statistics and events that occur in the network. Fortunately for us ScienceLogic, our Network Monitoring and Helpdesk provider, not only tracked everything that went on, but dug out some of the more interesting values. Louis DiMeglio has posted them on the Sciencelogic Blog There is some more information on the help desk due out in a few days, but ... Read more...

Fresh off the success of Interop Las Vegas, Interop New York conference content does not fail to impress. The number of tracks at Interop New York has doubled since last year. We now have 14 Interop tracks - compared to 7 last year - plus 5 Mobile Business Expo (MBX) bonus tracks, which is comparable to the amount of education offered at Interop Las Vegas this past April. It's truly remarkable ... Read more...

Someone just reminded me that we will have 3 Interop Shows within a 12 month period. (NY last year was in October). So I should be no surprise that we are already looking for people to help get involved with the next InteropNet. Yes, that's right. You don't have the just spectate, you can participate in the design and construction of the InteropNet. Here's the deal. Do you have mad network skills? Are you an uberGeek? Or ... Read more...

Dennis Howlett has posted a blog on ZDNet that essentially disses next week's Enterprise 2.0 Conference where he's scheduled (apparently, against his will) to moderate a panel discussion on microblogging (you know: Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, etc). Enterprise 2.0 is a production of TechWeb (Disclosure: the parent company to InformationWeek). Howlett's blog is called Enterprise Alley. Alleys, including his, are where garbage is sometimes found. Dennis' vector of attack is to judge the merits of the event ... Read more...

While there's no shortage of events that you can attend to find out more about the various Internet-based substitutes for the solutions you might normally run on your own servers or in your own data centers, there's no event where the question "Can you run all of your IT in the cloud?" is being asked. That's the public conversation that I and other CIOs and IT pros will be having with Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), Google ... Read more...

In response to my last post (the one on why both the NY Times and Mashable.com were off-base about the connection between blogging and heart failure), several readers wrote to offer an opinion about the direction that the NY Times' coverage is taking. Have you noticed the dramatic background music being played on your favorite local or national news program? The river of graphic headlines on most big-league news sites? Some shortcuts in reporting being ... Read more...

OK, I'm going off-campus in this post, but I now feel as though I've joined a "privileged class" that entitles me to comment on the New York Times story questioning the connection between the stresses of prolific blogging and heart failure and subsequently, a completely distasteful post on Mashable.com about being able to see (on a map) where bloggers are "dropping dead." The NY Times piece was shoddy reporting. Mashable was out of line. Here's ... Read more...

As economic concerns in the United States continue, everyone is looking for new ways to generate revenue.Well, the emerging markets show strong dynamics to step in to fill the gap, and possibly then some. Of the emerging markets, one that strongly strikes the eye is Brazil. So far, Brazil hasn't felt the backlash. The domestic economy is very healthy and the country is a top producer in several categories ranging from food commodities to commercial ... Read more...