Interviews with industry experts and analysts that give you a high-level view of the networking landscape.
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January 07, 2009
With a poor economy and layoffs looming at a company, the most trusted employees can often turn and become an insider threat.
Tim Connelly from Netcordia discusses five different ways that they can attack your network as a way for revenge or even profit (from
data theft). (7:36)
January 06, 2009
No surprise here: discretionary spending is gone, while outlays for capital projects are crimped. But what other spending trends will this year reveal? Since the downturn began, research firm Strategic Oxygen has interviewed more than 10,000 IT decision-makers about their technology purchase plans. CEO Michael Gale shares his 2009 IT spending outlook. (7:36)
January 05, 2009
Do you know enough about mobile application development, cloud computing and virtualization? Those are among the hottest IT job skills that companies will be looking for in 2009. Dave Barbato, Steve Allard and Brian O'Connor from Talent Retriever discuss the five key technology areas that IT job candidates will want to have on their resumes for 2009. (16:48)
December 31, 2008
With wireless LANs well-established in the home and enterprise, the upcoming year will see the networks get smarter (better management, handoffs, etc.), greener (power savings) and faster (performance boosts). Kelly Davis-Felner from the Wi-Fi Alliance shares these predictions and other thoughts for the world of wireless in 2009. (12:17)
December 30, 2008
Will the combination of tighter travel budgets and better technology (high definition!) finally propel videoconferencing into the mainstream? Joe Sigrist, senior VP and GM of Polycom's video solutions division, thinks the technology is on the cusp and poised for big growth in 2009. (15:47)
December 29, 2008
Social networking has exploded into the market place over the past few years, and its reach into the enterprise will get deeper,
in 2009, according to Pringo CEO Majid Abai. He discusses the groups of the enterprise that will embrace social networking functions in 2009 and beyond with Keith Shaw.
From corporate HR using social tools to train employees, towards adopting new technology to foster Millenial employees, social
networking is here to stay, Abai says. (18:46)
December 26, 2008
As part of our 2009 IT Predictions series, we talk wtih Rich Milgram, CEO of job site Beyond.com. Milgram gives us his insider's take on what we can expect to see with IT jobs in the coming year. Find out how IT roles will change within the enterprise, and learn which types of job openings we'll see posted most often. (9:04)
December 23, 2008
After a year of kicking the tires on IT process automation and seeing increasing costs in offshoring/outsourcing, many are
convinced that 2009 will bring further investment in automating the manual IT processes as a way to cut costs while still
extending IT services to the business. NetIQ's Chris Pick discusses the trends for 2009 with Keith Shaw, and also explains why IT process automation is like a giant universal remote
control. (25:02)
December 22, 2008
Botnets were just the beginning. The bad guys will continue to use these to try and steal your data, but more sophisticated attacks over the application layer and targeted network attacks are on the way. Danny McPherson from Arbor Networks discusses the new ways that hackers will be trying to get into (and steal information) from your network in 2009. (10:30).
December 19, 2008
Our resident security prognosticator, Mike Paquette from Top Layer Networks, joins us again to review his 2008 predictions in the world of cyber-crime (he did pretty well) and
gazes into the crystal ball for 2009, including the prediction that we could be seeing the end of the "trusted" Web site.
(13:47)
December 18, 2008
The true nature of the cloud, the quagmire of data leak prevention and virtual machine blind spots are some of the security
issues that IT managers will face in 2009. Sophos CTO Richard Jacobs talks with Keith Shaw about the big picture for security in the upcoming year. (16:13)
December 17, 2008
Stephen Elliot, vice president of strategy for CA's Infrastructure Management and Data Center Automation business unit, explains
why difficult economic times drive the need for simplified management capabilities and advanced automation tools. (18:50)
December 11, 2008
With the knowledge that most people chuck much of the physical materials received at a conference before leaving the hotel,
Eloqua decided to make their annual user conference a green experience and do a way with paper all together. Brian Kardon,
chief marketing officer at Eloqua, talks about how his company pulled off the paperless conference and provides tips for those
looking to do the same. (12:03)
December 10, 2008
With the economy in the tank and employees anxious about their jobs, corporations have to be extra vigilant against insider
threats. Phil Neray of Guardium shares tips on how to monitor for potential inside jobs and how to be prevent losses. (16:44)
December 08, 2008
How is cloudbursting the data center equivalent of overdraft protection for your checkbook? Lori McVittie of F5 Networks explains
the concept and how it could potentially save you from unncessary data center build-outs. (9:55)
December 03, 2008
Building a circle of friends in a social network such as Facebook takes time and effort. And it's pain when to redo when you
join a new social network like Twitter. But the DataPortability project hopes to make easy the transition of your sociograph
across networks. Trent Adams, a major force in the project, talks about the issues involved and the progress that's been made
in making DataPortability a reality. (23:23)
December 01, 2008
The recent bank failures and subsequent federal investigations into those collapses is a reminder to all that e-mail archiving
can make life less of a headache for IT workers when those subpoenas arrive. Proofpoint CEO Gary Steele provides five tips
for ensuring your e-mail is properly cataloged. (6:49)
November 25, 2008
Are social networking sites fertile for e-commerce or are they more a system for brand-building? Clay Olivier, chief operating
officer of Volusion, talks about the social network opportunity. (12:15)
November 24, 2008
Is securing a 10G Ethernet environment just a matter of buying a bigger box or is it a little more complicated than that?
Anthony James, vice president of products at Fortinet, explains the challenges of securing fat Internet pipes. (11:32)
November 19, 2008
Web 2.0 applications are imposing new demands on storage, and a different approach is needed, says James Sullivan, vice president of IBM's XIV storage division. Sullivan explains the limitations of legacy storage systems and how XIV is trying to make storage easier to manage. (13:42)
November 17, 2008
When money is scarce, buying a shiny new application is a tough sell for IT shops. Micro Focus helps its customers leverage
exiting legacy systems by wrappering them with new code and pushing them into a Web 2.0 world, says Stephen Kelly, CEO. (12:08)
November 13, 2008
Professor Stephen Lyon of Princeton University has figured out how to store information in the nucleus of an atom in a quantum
computing project that could eventually change the way enterprises store data. Hear him describe his research in an interview
with Network World's Jon Brodkin. (11:38)
November 12, 2008
If you're a half-full kind of person, then there's some good news in terms of the current economic conditions and the tech
recession. George Colony, CEO of Forrester Research, gives five reasons why the current crisis is not like the Internet bubble of 2001-03, which he
calls a "tech depression". (13:56)
November 10, 2008
With hype and media attention focused on smart phones (Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry), is there still a place in the world for a good old-fashioned notebook? Paul Moore from Fujitsu America discusses the state of the mobile worker, whether tablets will ever go mainstream, and new innovations in the mobile and ultra-mobile device arena. (11:30)
November 05, 2008
If you've ever tried to send a multi-gigabyte file across the internet, you know how painful an experience it can be. But,
there are options available. Michelle Munson, CEO of Aspera, explains her company's FASP protocol and how it will speed big-file
delivery. (9:15)
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