This on-site Interop podcast with Steve Hardy of Avaya focuses on the changing nature of voice communications for the enterprise and the coming importance of unified communications for both large enterprise and small business customers.

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.

In this interview, Microsoft's Tom Robertson -- a keynote speaker at Interop New York 2007 -- explains how Microsoft approaches the concept of software interoperability and how it surfaces and addresses issues like file format interoperability, bringing disparate technologies together, and how to innovate while still keeping an eye on interoperability.