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Networld+Interop Las Vegas: Behind the Scenes
By Daniel Dern
June 14, 2004
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At busy conferences and trade shows, off-floor press/analyst-only events
often offer a calmer, more manageable view of things. It gives us press folks
a chance to chat with a vendor's management and techies and marketers
without competing against sales prospects—a chance to ask more questions,
go "off script" and get more answers.
While the
Networld+Interop Las Vegas 2004 conference and exhibition
(where the new monorail was actually running, although, sigh,
still only in no-passenger test mode) which
ran May 9 through 14 wasn't as crowded as many Interops, Networlds or
N+Is of yore—it more or less filled the Las Vegas Convention Center's
North Halls with some hallway spillover, but didn't sprawl outside,
into the nearby Las Vegas Hilton or elsewhere—it was big enough
(with 300 or so exhibitors) to be a lot to take in.
For Tuesday May 11's evening, technology journalist, analyst, pundit
and consultant David Coursey organized the
"Great Stuff at N+I" reception, with some stuff that could be seen
on the floor by all attendees, and some that could not. The event was deliberately modest in size, compared with typical
events by ShowStoppers or the
even larger PepCom—slightly over a dozen exhibitors at tables, which meant we all had enough time to stop and chat with each one.
Firewalls, A/V, and Other Software
Odds are you know Zone Labs best for its excellent
software firewall, ZoneAlarm (available in both free and fee versions: the
free version is more than sufficient more most users).
Here the company was showing Integrity 5.0, the new version of its "enterprise
end-point security solution," combining Zone Lab's firewall for all end points
and central management tools to create managed policy, and policy enforcement
capabilities, including more support for 802.1
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