In this on-site Interop interview with Michael Stewart, VP and general manager, Americas for Zeus Technology, we talk about Internet application acceleration and the how acceleration has changed since the days of the first Internet boom. Stewart also looks at why Zeus, an 11-year-old technology veteran in the UK, has chosen this time to enter the North American market.

In this on-site Interop interview with Julian Clarke, CEO of ManageWyse, he discusses the possibilities of software written with an IP backbone and open-source components. He also talks about the possibilities and difficulties of running a software business based outside the established centers of high-tech industry.

This interview, conducted at the 2007 Interop New York Conference and Expo, features Evan Conway, SVP sales and channel development, and Jason Sloderbeck, VP of service delivery, of Positive Networks. They discuss their unique two-factor authentication scheme, and the importance of two-factor authentication in financial and sensitive-information markets.

This conversation with Howard Goldstein focuses on storage networking - what it is, how it works and differences between the many different acronyms found in this space such as storage area network (SANs), network attached storage (NAS), and file area networks (FANs). Goldstein explains the technologies and their different uses on a network.

This Interop New York podcast features Joe Fitzgerald, CEO of ManageIQ, talking about resource virtualization and the changes that IT management has to make if the organization is to get the most from breaking the link between processes and physical assets. Virtualization is a hot topic, and Joe says it’s easy for a company to get burned by a virtualization project if they aren’t willing to put in the time and effort to change management concepts to match the new, virtual reality.

In this Interop New York podcast, we talk optimization with Rick Sturm, President of Enterprise Management Associates. Rick looks at optimization from many directions—hardware, software, management, and process—with the goal of maximizing effectiveness and efficiency within the IT organization. This conversation touches on all these issue and more, as Rick helps prepare companies to make the most of their investment in IT.