Podcast interview with Manfred Arndt of HP ProCurve.

Podcast interview with Owen Garrett of Zeus.

Podcast interview with Christopher Bihary of Network Critical.

Interop podcast with Henning Volkmer of Cortado.

Interop podcast with Steve Shillingford of Solera Networks.

Interop podcast with Umberto Milletti of Inside View.

On-site interview with Chris Loeffler of Eaton.

Podcast with Jon Siegal of EMC.

Podcast with Ofer Shapiro of Vidyo.

Podcast with Stu Vaeth and Dan Malloy of OATH.

Podcast with Chris Mackie and Mark Romano of Watchguard.

Podcast with Prasad Govindarajan of Varaha.

On-site interview with Alex Quinonez of Astaro.

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.

There has been a great deal of discussion about the tools and techniques for virtualizing servers and storage. What are you doing, though, about virtualizing your network? In this conversation with Vikram Mehta, President and CEO, we discuss the importance of properly virtualizing the network facilities to match servers and maintain the security and performance required by the virtualized enterprise.

It's all too easy to get caught up in making the local area network faster and more secure, but optimizing traffic that goes out on the WAN can have a huge impact. In this interview with Con Nikolouzakis, CEO, we talk about what can and can't be optimized in the traffic stream and why we could reach a point at which minimizing your Internet footprint could be as beneficial as keeping a small carbon footprint.

It certainly looks as though 802.11n is set to change the way we think about wireless local area networks. We talk with Selina Lo, President and CEO, about the impact that 802.11n can have on business networks, the performance boost that will come from the 5-GHz band of 11n, and why you might (or might not) want to wait for dual-band access points before beginning your 802.11n deployment.

When you're trying to go "green" in your IT operations, it helps to know just what's going on with the power your systems are consuming. In this interview, we ask Ashish Moondra, Senior Product Manager, Power Products, about the data that can be gathered, and the kind of processing that's required to turn basic electric consumption data into usable green information.

Who are you? That's the basic question that starts nearly every network application session, and we talk with Garret Grajek, President/COO, and Craig Lund, CEO, about how that question can be answered with certainty--and asked in ways that leave end-users feeling good about the encounter.

There's no question that employees are moving around more than ever before. In this Interop interview, Ben Gibson, Senior Director, Mobility Solutions talks about the challenges of managing movement across different networks, and the ways in which mobile networking is changing the way companies think about enterprise applications and the employees who use them.

The growing reliance on virtual servers and storage brings with it a new set of issues for equipment vendors and enterprise IT professionals alike. In this conversation with Dave Asprey, Vice President, Marketing, we look at the ways in which control at Layer 7 of the ISO stack can be an effective tool in controlling servers that come in and out of existence in the blink of an eye.

How do you secure a server when you don't know where it is? That's the question we discuss with Atri Chatterjee, Senior VP, Marketing when we look at the impact of virtualization on enterprise network security. There's also the question of "green computing" and how it affects the security infrastructure--the impact can be greater than you think.

This discussion with Douglas Murray, VP and General Manager, Volume Products Group and Paul Hooper, Chief Marketing Officer, focuses on the impact virtualization is having on the enterprise network, and how the features and concepts are flowing between carrier, enterprise, and blade-server rack networks to make data flow at every level faster and more reliable.

In this conversation with Nicholas Ilyadis, Vice President and CTO, we look at networking from the silicon side, with a special emphasis on moving 10 gigabits per second over copper and the question of just how much faster unshielded twisted-pair cables can go.

In this Interop Podcast, host Curtis Franklin talked with Interop CIO Bootcamp faculty member Bob Dowd, who discussed the importance of looking at the office of CIO as a strategic, rather than a tactical, position within the organization. Dowd talked about the necessary shifts in thinking for a CIO who wants to be part of the major strategic discussion within their enterprise, and the critical need for the IT group's participation in strategic decisions from the earliest points of consideration.

In this Interop Podcast, host Curtis Franklin talked with Interop CIO Bootcamp faculty member Ashwin Rangan. The discussion centered on the individual who wants to become a CIO, and the steps required to reach the office. Relatively few people begin to think about a career path to the CIO's office before they enter college -- most begin to see it as a possibility after they've entered the workforce. Rangan talked about the education, training, and experience critical for success in the position, and the ideas the candidate should master well before the corner office opens up.

In this Interop Podcast, host Curtis Franklin talked with Interop conference speaker Marcus Ranum about two of the most critical components of network security: firewalls and intrusion detection systems (IDS). Ranum discussed the proper role of each component, the critical differences between them, and deployment strategies to maximize the protection both firewalls and IDSes can provide for your network.

In this Interop Podcast, host Curtis Franklin talked with Interop CIO Bootcamp faculty member Bruce Barnes. The two began by talking about the key metrics and measurement systems used to evaluate the performance of a CIO. Barnes also discussed the key issues of politics and political allies within the organization -- and how the choices of allies can be a critical aid or massive hindrance to the success of a CIO.