Hear Anne Skamarock describe the Virtualization Track and what you'll learn at this special program at Interop New York.

Hear Mike Fratto describe NAC Day and what you'll learn at this special program at Interop New York.

Hear Thornton May describe CIO Bootcamp and what you'll learn at this special program at Interop New York.

Open source is a software strategy that has changed the market in profound ways. The security space has seen its share of open source options, and in this Interop interview Dave Roberts, Vice President, Strategy and Marketing at Vyatta talks about how the open source model and a robust user community are making security software safer and easier to use while still allowing the developing companies to stay in business to support their users.

Who do you trust? It's a straightforward question with answer that can be anything but simple for larger enterprise networks. The Trusted Computing Group is an industry consortium that's trying to make the answer easier to find, and in this high-level  Interop interview, Steve Hanna, Distinguished Engineer, Juniper Networks, and Stuart Bailey, Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Infoblox talk about NAC 2.0, the latest TCG initiative to bring greater functionality and simplicity to the job of knowing which devices and which people to trust when they want to come onto your network. Vendors are already starting to line up behind the newest NAC, so it will pay to start looking at what it means to your organization today.

What does your wireless architecture look like? Many companies won't spend much time thinking about topology, but David Flynn, CEO & President of Aerohive thinks you should. There are different options out there, and as companies begin to look at the possibilities of architectures like meshes and webs, it will become ever more important to look at all the options before starting to deploy APs.

It's one thing to say that you're going green in your data center, but how do you know--really know--whether you're heading in the right direction. In this in-depth Interop interview, Carl Cottuli, Vice President, Data Center Science Center at  APC talks about what you need to measure, and how you need to analyze the measurements, to make sure you're doing the right things when it comes to environmentally sensitive data center operations. There are subtleties and complications that many folks won't think of, so it pays to be aware of the real issue in data-center energy measurement.

Green is the color of computing in the 21st century, and in this Interop interview we talk with Daniel Kelley, Senior Director of Marketing at D-Link about how energy-efficient networking is making a difference in data centers, wiring closets, and small businesses as they try to reduce their carbon footprints and lower their infrastructure costs.

Wireless networks are a reality for most enterprises today, and 802.11n promises performance that will let WLANs take over from traditional cabled installations for many customers. In this discussion with Keerti Melkote, Founder and Vice President of products and partnerships at Aruba, we talk about what the transition to wireless network means for the enterprise network, and how management, security, and performance all play roles in deciding how best to deploy the corporate WLAN.

In this interview with Michael Baum, CEO of Splunk, we talked about the importance of diverse information sources and how critical is the need to bring them together in a simple-to-understand, easily-aggregated way. Turning data into information in the enterprise is a crucial to managing a complex network.