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Cloud Performance   As the industry shifts from the “PC Era” to the “Cloud Era”, the role of IT is rapidly outgrowing its ability to own and manage all its own apps, infrastructure and devices. Consumerization is driving IT to deliver a mix of applications to a variety of user-owned devices. At the same time, IT is under going pressure to take advantage of increasingly ubiquitous and low-cost cloud computing capacity from external cloud and hosting providers. Until now, those goals have been difficult to achieve without compromising performance. We interview Greg Smith to gain Citrix's perspective on Cloud Performance. Greg is the Sr. Technical Marketing Director at Citrix Systems Cloud Networking Group. 28 Minutes Wireless Intrusion Prevention   Wireless LANs are not nearly as secure as organizations might think. Because of the dynamic nature of client devices, they are vulnerable, even when deployed with the strongest available security standards. While much attention has been focused on security at the AP, many enterprises have thus far ignored the actual wireless network traffic itself. Wi-Fi increasingly acts as a connection point – or bridge – between the trusted inside network, users and data, and that outside world. And this bridge is literally in the air around us. Just as with wired networks, wireless security requires stateful inspection and traffic analysis. To keep up with the mounting threats across the airwaves, top solutions in this space leverage a dedicated wireless intrusion prevention system. We interview Chris Roeckl to gain Fluke Networks' perspective on WIPS. Chris is the VP, Field Marketing at Fluke Networks.  30 Minutes Cloud Based Identity Management   As companies continue to increase their usage of the cloud, and as the extended workforce expands, the importance of controlling who has access to what systems and how access is granted is imperative. It is important to have one single source of security for all information, applications and systems required by the organization’s extended workforce and supply chain. One source of security helps each organization in its effort to provision and de-provision users from various internal and external applications in an expedient manner to minimize risk. Companies have said that this is beneficial for high investment joint ventures. At the same time, organizations need to consider internal policies and external regulatory compliance issues and how they impact access to information and systems. We interview Dave Miller to gain Covisint's perspective on Cloud-based ID Management. Dave is the CSO of Covisint. 42 Minutes Cloud Networking   Leveraging the lessons learned by the companies that pioneered SaaS, and understanding the multi-tenant architecture that underlies successful SaaS offerings, can help professionals make informed decisions when evaluating cloud-based networking solutions based on a single-tenant, virtualized-tenant, and multi-tenant architecture. With single tenancy, vendors provide a single physical infrastructure, database and application stack per customer. With virtualized-tenancy architectures physical infrastructure may be shared but the vendor still provides a single database and application instance per customer. Multi-tenancy is a truly shared model, with a single infrastructure, database and application stack utilized by all customers. We interview Steve Woo to gain Aerohive Networks' perspective on Cloud Networking. Steve is a Senior Director of Product Management at Aerohive Networks. 32 Minutes Sybase ASE 15.7   There is explosive growth in the data volumes being managed by organizations. The transition from an average of a few hundred gigabytes managed by the operational store a decade ago, to the many terabytes being managed today, has happened rapidly. Terabyte-scale operational environments present a unique set of challenges. Such environments need the performance and scale to meet the most demanding Wall Street trading systems, but at the same time the ability to run intra-day and end-of-day reporting and operational decision support systems. This ability to handle “mixed workloads”— the happy coexistence of demanding transactional systems and operational reporting systems — is key to gaining a competitive advantage. We interview Raj Rathee to gain Sybase's perspective on mission-critical enterprise database management systems. Raj is a senior manager for product management at Sybase. 30 Minutes Rugged Mobile Computing   While rugged mobile computers were once used primarily by military personnel, today's rugged computer is for people who perform normal job functions in demanding environments. Protection is needed against water, dust, shock, vibration and temperature extremes. Many workers also need to be able to view the display in direct sunlight. So, when selecting a ruggized mobile computing solution, it is important to leverage a level of protection for the specific environment in which the computer will be deployed. Now, even though categories terms such as "semi-rugged," "rugged," and "fully rugged" are often used, they are not easily defined. A good ranking metric is ingress protection, which is used to gauge specific performance criteria. We interview Bob Fowler to gain DRS Technologies' perspective on rugged mobile computing. Bob is a Sr. Product Manager at DRS Technologies. 32 Minutes Controller-less Wi-Fi   Wi-Fi is going through a fundamental and generational change. Enterprises want the mobility and productivity of Wi-Fi with the scale, performance, resilience, and ubiquity of the Internet. You shouldn't have to 'make-do-and mend' your wireless infrastructures; nor do you have to invest in 'odds on' systems just to get what you need. But, controller-based WLANs were designed for an era when there was insufficient processing power in Access Points to distribute intelligence. The controller-less approach distributes all control functions and data forwarding to smart APs. This is similar to how routers in the Internet function. So, to simplify cloud based Wi-Fi, more and more organizations are choosing to leverage a controller-less wireless LAN. We interview Devin Akin to gain Aerohive Networks' perspective on Enterprise Wi-Fi. Devin is the Chief Wi-Fi Architect at Aerohive Networks. 29 Minutes Junos Pulse Mobile Security   For IT departments, mobile devices represent a new and vulnerable endpoint for threats distributed via email, text messaging, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and application downloads. Even worse, business data is at risk every time a device is lost or stolen. So, while smartphones help improve employees’ productivity, unprotected devices can mean loss or theft of valuable, confidential data and cause noncompliance with regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) or Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). To meet the challenge, you need to leverage a Mobile Security Suite that offers enterprises and consumers a wide range of security features to protect various mobile devices. We interview Rich Campagna to gain Juniper Networks' perspective on the Junos Pulse Mobile Security Suite. Rich is a Director of Product Management in Juniper Networks Access & Acceleration Business Unit. 27 Minutes Data Loss Prevention   Protecting sensitive information as it transforms and moves across the globe is mission critical to today's multinational enterprises. That collaboration and support for mobile devices provides easier access and broader sharing of enterprise information. Keeping sensitive data well-protected requires preventing data loss where end-users collaborate, such as file shares, email and the Web. To meet this challenge, you need security solutions that can help manage information risk by proactively locating and controlling sensitive information as it moves through the IT environment. Specifically, you need better visibility into high areas of risk, and help improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of your ongoing security operations. We interview Sam Curry to gain EMC's perspective on Data Loss Prevention. Sam is Chief Technologist of RSA which is the security division of EMC.  23 Minutes Complex Event Processing   In order to be a global competitor, you need real-time agility, and you must driven by events. A delayed response to changing conditions can mean missed opportunities, and overlooked threats. To meet this challenge, CEP is being leveraged to identify patterns in fast paced, high-volume data streams that move through business systems in real time. But building low-latency event driven applications that can distill insight from the noise of incoming data has been difficult—until now. Quickly building and deploy new applications with rapid application development is key to achieving an enterprise view of the market. Rapid application development represents a third option to the perennial “buy vs. build” debate, by letting you have the flexibility and fit of a custom solution at the lower cost and reduced implementation time of an off-the-shelf solution. We interview Neil McGovern to gain Sybase's perspective on CEP. 54 Minutes Information Governance   Even though standards for good governance are rising, much of today's focus around corporate governance leaves information out of the discussion. Carefully managing your growing volume of information carries both risk and opportunity for your enterprise. Furthermore, corporate leaders need to be active stewards of their companies' information and should know as much about their information assets as their CFO knows about their company's financial assets. By implementing a company wide information governance initiative, you can create and enforce policies that help ensure information quality, compliance, and protection while increasing business value. We interview Gregory Kosinski to gain EMC's perspective on Information Governance. Gregory is the Director of Marketing for EMC SourceOne Products. 21 Minutes End to End Encryption   Today’s bankcard networks are generally considered to be highly reliable and secure. However, cardholder data is typically unencrypted – visible in clear text – as it leaves a merchant’s terminal and makes its way through the payments network. At certain points in its journey, the data is potentially exposed – making it valuable prey for professional hackers who have developed increasingly sophisticated methods of hijacking it. The numerous systems that have been compromised over the last several years are stark testimony to the success of these criminals. Protecting sensitive cardholder and payment account information throughout the lifecycle of a transaction from card swipe through transmission to the card brands is the ultimate goal of end-to-end encryption. We interview Steve Elefant to gain Heartland Payment Systems' perspective on end to end encryption. Steve is the CIO for Heartland Payment Systems. 23 Minutes Outsourced Network Monitoring   Enterprise data centers not only need to keep their networks and business applications up and running, but also performing optimally. However, monitoring and managing these heterogeneous, and increasingly virtualized environments can be challenging -- requiring significant time and multidomain expertise. Given the complexity of these networks, IT organizations usually find it difficult to quickly troubleshoot network issues or determine the cause of application performance degradation. To meet this challenge, more and more organizations are turning to a SaaS model to improve application availability and proactive management. By doing so, they are reducing capital and operational costs, mitigate risk and improving service levels. We interview Nupur Thakur to gain Brocade's perspective on Network Monitoring. Nupur is a product manager for Brocade’s Network Monitoring Service. 21 Minutes Optimizing IP Networks   New IP-based technologies are creating increased demands on network infrastructures. Those demands require higher levels of performance, availability, and mobility. For instance, the migration of voice and video to IP Networks presents new challenges that are revolutionizing the way networks are built and managed. Similarly, new network based business applications and processes that improve collaboration and productivity – along with the dramatic growth of wireless networks and mobile devices such as smart phones, IP phones, and point of sale devices – all require higher levels of network performance. Moreover, consolidation and virtualization initiatives are further driving the need for higher network scalability. We interview Gene Gertson to gain Brocade's perspective on IP Network Infrastructure Services. Gene is the Lead IP Infrastructure Services Consultant for Brocade Global Services. 20 Minutes  Holistic Virtualization Strategies   Organizations are leveraging virtualization technologies to help them consolidate resources, reduce costs, and improve management for their server and storage infrastructures. But in doing so, many fail to consider the overall impact of virtualization on the data center – thereby opening the door to degraded application performance and increased management complexity. As a result, they may be unable to satisfy SLAs or meet data growth requirements. However, the right data center virtualization strategy will optimize application and fabric performance and improve data protection. By leveraging a holistic strategy, you can take advantage of virtualization without experiencing unnecessary costs and headaches while reducing business risk and achieving a faster ROI. We interview Todd Broadhurst to gain Brocade's perspective on virtualization strategies. Todd is a Professional Services Manager with Brocade. 36 Minutes Wireless Mobility   WLANs have become a mainstream network access technology. However, it is important to study both capital and operational expenditures before making your 802.11n purchase or upgrade. To achieve optimal enterprise productivity, insist on the support of a broad range of mobile voice, video and location-based applications. Furthermore, cost effective enterprise mobility can be realized by leveraging an Open Communications approach where existing investments can be kept and forklift upgrades can be avoided. Finally, comprehensive WLAN solutions also address linear scalability, unified wired and wireless communications, as well as security. We interview Luc Roy to gain Enterasys/Siemens Enterprise Communications' perspective on enterprise WLANs. Luc is VP Wireless Strategy at Enterasys/Siemens Enterprise Communications. 43 Minutes Integrated Security Management   Traditional security management does not enable your security team to be aware of any evolving situation - in real time. However, integrated security management can deliver mission critical superior awareness and actionable intelligence. In particular, advanced sensor technologies can help you meet this challenge for homeland security, force protection and commercial applications. Furthermore, it is critical to integrate access control & identification, intrusion detection, video & analytics, building & fire controls, and third party products - together with sensors that detect chemical, biological, radiological, and explosive threats. Finally, to achieve a comprehensive defense, leverage ground radar, thermal imaging, and mobile platforms. We interview Kevin Wine to gain ICx Technologies' perspective on integrated security management. 30 Minutes In – Database Analytics   Smart enterprises are driving risk management, fraud detection, business process management and investment strategies, as well as competitive product, marketing and customer relationship strategies with In –Database Business Analytics. In –Database Business Analytics removes application barriers to perform critical drill-downs that were previously impossible or impractical using outside the database approaches. In traditional approaches, end-users must transport data out of the database for processing. This activity often accounts for up to 75 percent of the cycle time and imposes severe constraints on throughput and timely delivery of results. We interview Joydeep Das to gain Sybase's perspective on In –Database Business Analytics. Joydeep is a Senior Product Manager with Sybase. 44 Minutes  Next Generation Enterprise WAN   An Internet ‘reliability’ problem has forced businesses to continue to pay very high prices for fairly limited private WAN bandwidth from their telecommunication providers. However, a new disruptive technology can drastically reduce the ongoing monthly WAN operating expense for an enterprise. By solving the reliability and predictability issues associated with shared-IP networks, in general, and the public Internet in particular, Adaptive Private Networking technology enables enterprises to gain a step-function improvement in their WAN operations.Furthermore, the reduction in WAN operating expense achieved with Adaptive Private Networking can pay for itself out of hard cost savings. We interview Andy Gottlieb to gain Talari Networks' perspective on next generation enterprise WANs. Andy is the CEO of Talari Networks.  33 Minutes TCO Drives Email Security Adoption   Spam continues to be a top network security threat, and much of it gets sent via a bot network of zombie machines. To meet this challenge, many enterprises are leveraging a hybrid security architecture which addresses more security requirements than the single deployment model. A competitive advantage can be realized by coupling the power of “in-the-cloud” distributed computing with an on-premises email firewall. In today’s crowded email security space, TCO is a determinate factor. Look for cost-savings that enable end users to spend less with support. To stay ahead of the curve, it is important to select a solution that minimizes end user training and updating filters. We interview Ron Longo to gain Red Condor's perspective on the role of resiliency, disaster recovery, and load sharing in email security. Ron is the CEO of Red Condor. 32 Minutes  SOA Quality Management   SOA bring challenges for every part of the IT organization, and the IT quality organization is no exception. Moreover, SOA requires quality management across all types of testing—functional, performance, security, and compliance. Each of these is affected by multiple factors such as the type of SOA being built, the needs of service providers and consumers, and the testing tools and techniques currently in use. Furthermore, IT quality managers must develop and implement a SOA quality program thatfurthers the organization’s goals for SOA. Success can be achieved by leveraging the right strategy, implementing the right processes and selecting the right tools. We interview Jeff Meyers to gain HP's perspective on Software Quality Management for SOA. Jeff is a Senior Product Manager for HP Software's SOA Quality Management Solutions. 55 Minutes  Multi-Enterprise SOA   In today’s enterprise environment, growth is king. To facilitate growth, executives must listen to the marketplace, as well as their customers and partners and adapt strategies to wring value from constantly changing conditions. But if processes are to keep pace with executive decision-making, the old paradigm of IT manually automating individual, monolithic processes must evolve. Instead, IT must facilitate system heterogeneity and reusability, not only within the enterprise, but with an expanding number of partners, customers and distributors. To gain that completive advantage, IT must go beyond today’s B2B applications and  processes and marry them to service-oriented architectures. We interview Russell Scherwin to gain Sterling Commerce's perspective on Multi-Enterprise SOA. Russell Scherwin is a Global Director of Product Marketing with Sterling Commerce. 40 Minutes  SOA Testing, Validation & Virtualization   Companies are adopting Virtualization in the data center to reduce the server costs of supporting SOA. Furthermore, if you are tackling the hardest quality and integration challenges, you need to eliminate dependencies among teams throughout the application development lifecycle. That can be achieved by virtualizing the behaviors of complex services-based applications. Moreover, expanding on the value of server consolidation and test lab virtualization beyond the enterprise data center, is key to providing faster time-to-market and quality across the full lifecycle of developing, testing and maintaining highly interconnected services-based applications. We interview John Michelsen to gain with iTKO's perspective on SOA Testing, Validation & Virtualization. John is the Chief Scientist & co-founder of iTKO.  45 Minutes  Semantics Battles Fraud   The perpetrators of financial crime are constantly modifying their tactics, and centralizing case management is an effective way to deal with them. Furthermore, by automating the case management process, you can monitor cases in near-real time and in-flight. This ensures that fraud cases don’t fall through the cracks, and that you are more efficient. Gaining greater business knowledge from existing fraud databases and legacy systems should be a key component of your strategy. Particularly, semantics can facilitate better trend analysis, and make it available immediately to fraud analysts. By leveraging semantics, fraud risk  managers get the upper hand by obtain a contextual view of the fraud and risk exposure across your enterprise. We interview Jeff Dickerson to gain Metatomix's perspective on the role of semantics in financial services. Jeff is the CEO of Metatomix. 30 Minutes Semantically Connected Intelligence   When you’re making an important business decision or reacting to a developing emergency, you want to concentrate on crucial information. Leverage typical search tools, data warehouses or publish-subscribe systems, and you might end up with a vague analysis, a slow response, and an unsound decision. Optimizing your decision process requires information from multiple sources which come in different formats, and which is organized in conflicting ways. Needless to say, the potential for confusion is huge. To makes sense this real-time information jigsaw puzzle, you need technology that understands the context of data. We interview Daniel Reininger to gain Semandex Networks' perspective on Semantically connected intelligence. Daniel is the CEO of Semandex Networks. 37 Minutes Semantics Drives Critical Intelligence   Jessica Lunsford was murdered by a known sex offender who did not inform the police that he had moved into her neighborhood, and who had been released earlier by a state court that did not have access to parts of his criminal record. This tragedy has caused new information-integration technologies to be adopted by the Florida court system. Those semantic technologies link data from existing disparate systems to create a more common understanding. We interview Howard Greenblatt to gain Metatomix's perspective on how semantics drives mission critical actionable intelligence. Howard is the CTO of Metatomix. 35 Minutes Ajax Optimization   Ajax is emerging as the preferred development approach for web 2.0 applications. While the asynchronous nature of Ajax applications makes them fundamentally different from standard Web applications, Ajax applications are still built upon standard Web infrastructure. Moreover, Ajax behavior does not obviate the benefits of application acceleration. Indeed, this asynchronous behavior can make request switching and high-availability functionality more important to an Ajax application than to a standard Web application. We interview Prabakar Sundarrajan to gain Citrix Systems' perspective on optimizing Ajax applications. Prabakar Sundarrajan is the CTO of Citrix Systems’ Application Networking Group.  36 Minutes

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