Though not the mega-event it once was, TechXNY was open for business, connecting people and solutions as it always has.
Some questions seem more existential than they are. "Why are we all here?" for instance, takes on new relevance when you're at TechXNY these days. There was a time when new systems, applications, and services for enterprises needed trade shows, or could at least benefit from them, but in the mature(er) IT market, the enterprise market is no longer the final frontier. It's a reasonably well settled suburb, and about as exciting.
TechXNY focuses on three markets: people looking for SMB (Small and Medium Business) solutions; offshore outsourcing; and (having saved all that corporate cash) a little something to turn a McMansion into a Cyber Castle. Of the three, the Offshore pavilions won by sheer numbers, but although they represent an important fact of technological life, they're not the subject of this article, except to say that I think they'd be far better served by a convention of their own—though possibly not at a high profile location like Javits.
Though it's not the show it once was, I did find a number of interesting things at TechXNY.
Iomega's NAS 100d is the first Network Attached Storage Device the company has sold through consumer outlets; it offers high capacity and internal Wi-Fi.
My first stop was at Iomega, where I wanted to see the final version of its 160/250 GB Wireless Server, the NAS 100d. It looks to be ideal for SMB operations—or even the networked family—providing high level data encryption, plug and play simplicity, and automatic backup of your network PCs.
2008 International Mathematica Conference Dr. Dobb's interviews Wolfram Research's Theo Gray, co-founder and Director of User Interfaces, and Roger Germundsson, Director of Research and Development, about the upcoming 2008 International
Mathematica Conference.
How Do You Do Nightly Builds and Tests when there is No Overnight? Software Production in a Geographically Distributed Environment
Attend this Webcast and find out how to overcome common build-test-deploy challenges that affect all members of a distributed team, including:
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<li> Slow build and test cycles, broken builds, and other factors that hamper distributed team productivity</li>
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Thursday, September 25, 2005 " 11am PT / 2pm ET
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In this volume of Best of BYTE, we explore the emergence of some heuristic algorithms. Although we have only scratched the surface of this intriguing subject, we hope we've suggested the potential of the synthesis of heuristics and algorithms.
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