Interop Las Vegas: Take a Virtual Booth Crawl

The Interop trade show in Las Vegas, held last week, hosted hundreds of tech vendors. The technology ran the gamut, from SaaS to virtualization, servers to networking gear, marketing to log management to security.

The following 22 videos are from my tour of the convention’s booths. I asked various vendors to briefly describe their products or services. In sum, the following pages offer a birds-eye view of the state of today’s IT.

Take the virtual tour:

1) Citrix

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Technology: Virtualization and application delivery. Citrix touts itself as “the first solution on the market that delivers applications and desktops to any user, anytime, anywhere from a secure central location.”

Phil Montgomery, Senior Director, Product Management:

2) BRANSERV

Location: Lake Zurich, IL

Technology: Custom branded and designed appliance servers; add your logo to a specially-designed server.

Sam Khalil, VP of Sales and Marketing:

3) Highly Reliable Services

Location: Reno, NV

Technology: Hot swappable hard drive back-up systems. Company motto: “Tape Sucks.”

Kathy Raye Freemonth, VP, Sales and Marketing:

4) Ingres

Location: Redwood City, CA

Technology: Open source relational database.

Tracy Eiler, SVP, Marketing:

5) Sitemasher

Location: Vancouver, BC

Technology: A browser-based Web site management platform, using a drag-and-drop user interface.

Samson Mow, Strategic Alliance Manager: