SCIENCE

Interop announced over 30 exhibitors will be making announcements at Interop New York, happening October 3-7 at the Javits Convention Center. Interop is a unique platform for leading IT vendors to introduce the latest innovations to technology professionals and buyers in the market. Results from a recent pre-show survey reflect that 88 percent of attendees forecast IT spending in the next 12 months to increase or stay the same, including a healthy 48 percent forecasting an increase.

"Interop New York presents our attendees with a comprehensive opportunity to learn first-hand about new products, stay up to date on industry trends and engage with a wide range of technologies," said Lenny Heymann, Interop General Manager. "This event provides a deep-dive look into the powerful innovations in the industry and continues to be a platform for news, showcasing over 30 first-time announcements from Interop exhibitors that will help attendees cut costs and drive revenue."

The pre-show survey, polling over 450 pre-registered attendees, reveals that 93 percent of attendees are active purchasers within their companies. These results confirm that Interop attendees are active buyers in the market significantly more likely to be involved in purchasing key business technologies. Priority areas include: IT security, cloud applications/services, network infrastructure upgrades, storage, and server virtualization.

The following Interop New York 2011 exhibitors will be making news announcements or showcasing new products at this year's event:

AdRem will release a new version of NetCrunch - network monitoring software for diverse network environments. With Remote Administration Console, WMI Hardware & Software Inventory and many performance improvements, NetCrunch helps in quick status review of the network and its key components, including availability and performance monitoring of devices, applications, and services.

Altior (Booth #148) will be announcing its new, second-generation AltraCores GZIP/GUNZIP standard, and context switched (CS-GZIP/CS-GUNZIP) hardware acceleration cores that perform multi-stream compression and decompression; and the AltraFlex Compression-Decompression File System (CeDeFS) Accelerator solution, which increases disk space and boosts disk capacity utilization for enterprise storage applications.

agileWORKFLOW, the next generation IT process automation tool, will be officially launched at Interop NY on October 5th. This great new tool is the missing link that IT managers have been waiting for by providing an intuitive visual configuration interface and the ability to interconnect natively with popular BI applications.

Citing confidence in the continued quality of its certified refurbished equipment, CXtec is expanding its standard lifetime warranty to include all equal2new refurbished voice and networking equipment. The warranty also provides first year advance replacement and enhances CXtec's abilities to better serve and support customers' IT infrastructure needs.

Brocade will showcase its recently announced Brocade Network Subscription, an innovative, subscription-based acquisition option for network infrastructure; new BrocadeVDX Ethernet fabric models that increase scalability and improve virtual machine (VM) awareness; and new Brocade Virtual Compute Blocks, which are integrated, tested and validated multi-vendor server, virtualization, networking and storage resources.

Configuration Management, Inc. (CMI), booth #822, will introduce its Enterprise Configuration Management and Application Lifecycle Management services designed to help organizations manage and protect their IT assets, and accelerate the development of their software solutions with CMI's flexible "ECM Services in the Cloud". Visit www.cmi.com/technology-solutions to learn more.

Cormant announces that CableSolve now queries virtual machine managers. With this update, Data Center and IT Infrastructure Managers are able to see a holistic view of their physical and logical servers in the context of the overall IT infrastructure. Come see us in the NOC & Booth #657.

Dell will be showcasing its enterprise portfolio of new server, storage and networking solutions - including Dell Force10 - for virtual, cloud, and traditional data center environments, all based on open industry standard-technology.

Desinnova Technologies unveils its breakthrough video conferencing control system, called Intuition Control. This easy to use control system not only drastically simplifies and reduces the number of steps needed to start a conference; it also enhances the meeting experience. To experience, visit Desinnova at Booth 801.

Egenera is preparing to launch the next version of PAN Manager software and advanced cloud protection capabilities via the latest in disaster response automation. The company's software consolidates management for both virtual and physical datacenter infrastructure under a single process, to help avoid outages and auto-recover should one occur.

Exar will announce expanded open source support for their security processors and Express DX hardware-acceleration cards. The added support addresses the need for security in Cloud applications, HTTPS and data in transit. Stop by Exar's booth #348 to see the benefits of hardware-acceleration for OpenSSL and Public Key Authentication.

F5 will deploy its BIG-IP solutions in the Interop Network Operations Center, providing key application services in support of Interop vendors and attendees. F5 will also provide critical networking services, including DNS and address translation services, for attendees using IPv6 devices.

Gigamon announces G-SECURE-0216 Inline Traffic Distribution Switch intelligently distributes traffic from one 10G link to up to eight 1G inline devices such as an IPS, firewall, or DPI tool. It offers bypass protection eliminating network downtime in the event of a failure or power outage while offering tool redundancy and reducing maintenance window requirements.

i365, a Seagate Company, will showcase EVault Endpoint Protection (EEP), an integrated Cloud-Connected backup, recovery and data security solution that protects endpoint devices including laptops and desktops. EEP allows control over valuable data spread across your mobile workforce through powerful security capabilities if a laptop is lost or stolen.

MAC Source Communications, a complete solutions provider and Platinum Avaya Business Partner, will demo some of Avaya's latest collaboration solutions including: Avaya Flare (desktop video device) and Avaya Web.Alive (web collaboration software). MAC Source will also showcase Avaya's network infrastructure solutions.

Momentum recently expanded its partner program to offer varying levels of VAR and MSP partnerships. Partners reap rewards just by introducing Momentum's VoIP solutions to their network. With access to Momentum's top-flight vendors, support and products, generating significant profits as our partner is as simple as it sounds. Booth #824.

Napatech will demo the new NT40E2-4 intelligent network adapter at Interop. Which can be used for 40 Gbps Packet Capture, Replay, and Traffic Generation. The adapter provides 4x10 GbE ports and advanced features for accelerating application performance, while leaving more than 99 % of the CPU resources to run customer applications.

NetSupport will present a range of desktop management solutions including best of breed PC Remote Control supporting Win, Mac, Linux, CE, and Pocket PC devices; powerful Asset Management offering HW/SW Inventory, SW Distribution, Licensing, Metering, Energy Monitoring, and Reporting plus a standalone (or fully integrated) web-based ITIL compliant Helpdesk solution. Visit www.netsupportmanager.com

New Horizons Computer Learning Centers has become the newest member of the VMware Authorized Training Center (VATC) program. New Horizons will deliver authorized VMware training and certifications in North America via multiple modalities and will start delivering their first classes in October.

Opengear introduces console servers and management appliances that now ship with auto-remediation capabilities. These new "rule book" features enable corrective action schedules to be taken automatically in response to defined trigger events. Opengear products monitor, alert, provide out-of-band access as well as now remotely fix problems on-site.

Phoenix NAP introduces Secured Cloud, a user-friendly system which incorporates enterprise technologies into a state-of-the-art approach to cloud computing. Self- provisioned, scalable and white label ready, this consumption-based public cloud service comes equipped with a robust chargeback management system, making it ideal for SMBs, Enterprises and IT solutions providers.

R1Soft (booth #816) will be showcasing its latest Continuous Data Protection (CDP) products. R1Soft CDP is scalable and high-performance disk-to-disk backup software for Windows and Linux servers in the cloud. CDP's asynchronous replication technology significantly shortens backup windows and reduces load on storage to alleviate the problem of disk I/O.

Riverbed will be announcing the latest update to the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS), the software that powers the market-leading WAN optimization solutions including the Steelhead appliance, Virtual Steelhead, and Cloud Steelhead. New features enable organizations to extend their business capabilities for collaboration, communications, and productivity.

ScriptLogic, a Quest Software Company, will showcase its solutions for desktop, Active Directory & Windows server and help desk management at its booth #337. ScriptLogic's Help Desk Authority, which will power InteropNet's help desk, enables IT administrators to identify, track and close issues quickly to ensure end users remain productive.

Server Technology will show the latest version of Sentry Power Manager (SPM), featuring a new, world-class user interface and a single view of the entire cabinet power distribution network, globally. Make decisions to improve your energy efficiency, reduce costs, streamline operations, and meet your green initiatives. Booth 548.

Smith Micro continues to leverage its leadership in connectivity and will be unveiling new enhancements to its Enterprise Mobility Command Center. These new features extend the "command and control" that IT administrators desire by allowing them to actively manage and enforce policies around mobile hotspots and provide persistent connections.

Storageflex will showcase its new rdx A8 Backup & Archive Appliance providing iSCSI attached 8 x 1TB hot swap removable cartridges. This is ideally suited to cloud based computing, data transfer & disaster recovery. Storageflex will also exhibit its high performance SAN Array model HA3969 to deliver cloud based storage.

The Hacker Academy (THA) will be showcasing its cloud based training platform. THA is a great way for IT Security staff to stay up to date on current real world threats.

Tier 3, provider of enterprise-class virtual private cloud, will announce enhancements to its robust IT automation (auto-ops) capabilities. Architected for security, risk mitigation and high availability--and with disaster recovery built into every deployment, the Tier 3 Enterprise Cloud Platform is optimized for production environments and mission-critical applications.

TrewPort unveils TrewIDMCloud a Single User Identity and Access Management Platform for both Enterprise and Cloud based applications. TrewIDMCloud has inbuilt integrations for Cloud and Enterprise applications using SAML and also Federated Provisioning. Bundled with utilities like Deployment Manager and Monitoring, TrewIDMCloud platform is an Enterprise Identity Management Platform for Cloud and Enterprise applications.

Thycotic Software is presenting Secret Server Enterprise Plus Edition, showcasing our new, advanced security and disaster recovery features. Some of the new features include clustering, session recording, and SIEM integration. Additionally, Thycotic will be presenting several new features in Password Reset Server, including SMS integration for Two Factor Authentication.

Verdasys announces an OEM partnership with Titus Labs and the delivery in Q4 2011 of a new User Based Data Classification Module. With the release of User Based Data Classification, Verdasys' Digital Guardian(TM) will offer the most comprehensive and accurate data tagging and actionable data classification capabilities for the enterprise.

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