Archive for 'Interviews'
How Network Team Collaboration Can Help Companies Prevent Miscommunication and Enforce Adherance To Deadlines
LumoFlow started around four years ago when social media was still pretty unknown within enterprises. During those days you had to build your enterprise collaboration environment from process centric project management and task tracking systems together with wikis, discussion forums and other communication platforms. Years passed and new social collaboration solutions came to the market, [...]
Full StoryAn insider’s perspective on the IPV4/IPV6 crisis
For more than 20 years, Allied Telesis has been a leading provider of networking infrastructure. Today the Company enables delivery of data, voice, and video services to a variety of clients globally. The origins Allied Telesis can be traced back to the Government Research Organization that first connected New Zealand to the early Internet. Unable [...]
Full StoryWhat Are The Most Common Problems That Affect Corporate Laptop Users?
LaptopMD is New York City’s premier computer, laptop and i-Phone service center. It was founded in 1995 by Arthur Zilberman, who saw a niche opportunity to provide quick, reliable computer repair service. They have offices in midtown Manhattan, New Jersey and Florida. They are also open seven days a week, and even make house calls. [...]
Full StoryBest-Practices and Insider Tips For Closing More Sales Using Web-Based Video Collaboration
VeriShow is an app-based corporate support platform created by HBR Labs LLC. HBR Labs is a technology company that began its entry into web collaboration technologies with LiveMDExpert, a web tool where users and healthcare experts can connect to discuss health-related information. As an app-based collaborative tool, it provides e-commerce websites (such as jewelry stores, [...]
Full StoryWhat Are The Business Benefits Of Mac Servers In The Datacenter?
Today, I’ll be interviewing Ben Greisler, owner and founder of Kadimac Corp. Kadimac is Ben’s second technologies company. His first was founded back in 1999 after spending 8 years in the publishing field. The first company was Mac oriented also, but he joined another firm to become their CTO. He decided to leave that company [...]
Full StoryHow Your Office Design Affects Your Social Media Presence And Employee Recruitment
WOVOX.com lets people show workplaces the way they really are through pictures, videos and reviews. It gives potential customers, partners and job seekers an authentic impression of the companies they´re interested in. They used to be a Dutch web design agency. Their new team members got really excited about working with us when shown pictures [...]
Full StoryReal-World Advice For Building Your First Server Room
Michael Figueroa is a Senior Parner at Infusion Points, an Enterprise Security consulting firm. He’s agreed to sit down with me and share his advice – based on his years of experience in the field – on how to plan an build your first server room. Before you start thinking about taking the DIY approach [...]
Full StoryIs Retail Ready for Mobile Tablet POS Systems and Cloud-Based Cash Registers?
In mid 2009, VendHQ started to build a new breed of point-of-sale that was simple to set up, easy to use, scalable and cost effective. They wanted to make full use of the latest Internet technology to make a really smart system that retailers would love to use. Today, I’ll be interviewing Vaughan Rowsell, who [...]
Full StoryVirtual Servers Are On The Verge of Outnumbering Physical Servers
Enterasys Networks, a Siemens Enterprise Communications Company, is a premier global provider of wired and wireless network infrastructure and security solutions. With roots back to their founding as Cabletron in 1983 their solutions enable organizations to drive down IT costs while improving business productivity and efficiency through a unique combination of automation, visibility and control [...]
Full StoryThe Healthcare Industry Is Going Paperless And Mobile To Serve Patients Better – What Does This Mean For Your Privacy?
SAFE-BioPharma is the industry IT standard developed to transition he biopharmaceutical and healthcare communities to paperless environments. The SAFE-BioPharma standard is used to verify and manage digital identities involved in electronic transactions and to apply digital signatures to electronic documents. SAFE-BioPharma was developed by a consortium of biopharmaceutical and related companies with participation from the [...]
Full StoryHow high-growth mega-brands like Zappos use their client support teams to create cults of brand evangelism
Zendesk was created as an alternative to traditional customer support help desk solutions. These traditional systems were heavy on the IT support side, and didn’t adapt easily to change as the web evolved. The founders wanted to create a customer support solution that would be flexible enough to adjust both to the changing needs of [...]
Full StoryInterview with Bynari – A Linux Alternative to Exchange
Since its inception in 2001, Bynari was one of the early innovators of the Linux platform. The company’s vision was to create a Linux based email platform comparable to Microsoft Exchange but at great savings to its customers. We’ve achieved that and continue to enhance it with every release. Today, I’ll be interviewing Joel Ammor, [...]
Full StoryProfile: Superlumin – Bandwidth Optimization, Content Caching and Application Acceleration Software
SuperLumin was founded by a group of veteran engineers from high-tech companies including Novell, Cisco, Volera and Arroyo. During this time, it was evident that video was the new bandwidth driver in the Internet. Current proxy technology had aged and shifted solely to a proxy-as-security technology rather than proxy-as-caching technology. Legacy proxies were not capable [...]
Full StoryInterview With Solera – Network Forensics and Threat Management
Solera Networks develops integrated network forensics and threat management appliances. Their systems capture every packet on both virtual and physical networks. Solera’s network forensics solutions enable complete visibility and situational awareness into any network traffic. They improve network security, management, forensics and compliance capabilities by providing a complete historical record of all network activity through [...]
Full StoryInterview With BeyondTrust Priveliged Identity Management
BeyondTrust is a 25-year old provider of privilege authorization management, access control and security solutions for virtualization and cloud computing environments. Through the PowerBroker software suite, BeyondTrust helps organizations manage privileged accounts on servers, devices, operating systems, desktops or applications. These privileged accounts allow access to change core settings of the IT infrastructure or install [...]
Full StoryInterview with Attorney Benjamin Wright about Wikileaks and Corporate Privacy Leaks
Benjamin Wright is an attorney based in Dallas, Texas. A graduate of the law school at Georgetown University, he has been practicing law since 1984. Since 1988, he has focused on technology law, including privacy, e-commerce, data security, cyber investigations and e-records management. On these topics, he advises organizations around the world (corporations, governments, non-profits). [...]
Full StoryInterview With Moodlerooms – Open-Source, Object-Oriented Online E-Learning
Moodlerooms, Inc., was founded in 2005 by former educators Tom Murdock, Sheila Gatling and Gina Russell Stevens. They wanted to make teaching and learning more effective, engaging and accessible for everyone. As a result, Moodlerooms’ mission has been to provide an open, flexible and affordable e-Learning platform for delivering educational courses and content online. By [...]
Full StoryInterview with Esnatech – Unified Communications
Esnatech started with 2 engineers, 1 business graduate started in 1990 building voice apps, Interactive Voice Response (IVR), voice mail, and texting… then built a platform for resellers and built a network of Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partners reselling a portion of the portfolio or the full app suite. In these last few years, their [...]
Full StoryInterview with dtSearch Engine – Instant search for large data volumes
PC Magazine – a number of years ago – reportedly described dtSearch as “industrial-strength text retrieval,” and that is still the angle they take. dtSearch has been selling the dtSearch product line since 1991, offering nearly unparalleled experience in both the text search and retrieval space and the file parsing and conversion space. dtSearch has [...]
Full StoryInterview with Softsyl Technologies Call Center Solutions And Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Telephony Services
SoftSyl started out as a software consulting firm in 2007 and evolved into a software technology firm after the company founder recognized a significant need in the market for affordable yet robust IVR systems for small and medium-sized businesses and call centers. Prior to the development of SoftSyl’s platform, an industry compliant VoiceXML based IVR [...]
Full StoryInterview with Lucasware, Makers of Jennifer Voice Directed Warehouse Management Solutions
Lucas Systems has been around since 1998, with a single focus on voice-directed warehouse applications. Their founder and CEO, Rick Brown, founded Lucas with a vision that was completely different from anyone else in the voice business at that time. Up to that time, companies in the industrial voice market all developed their own voice-only [...]
Full Story1E NightWatchman – Energy Saving PC Power Management Systems For CO2 Reduction And Green Computing
Developed and launched 11 years ago by 1E and CEO Sumir Karayi, NightWatchman® PC power management software intelligently power manages computers across an organization’s network remotely and automatically overnight, on weekends and when not in use. This significantly lowers energy consumption and CO2 emissions without ever impacting user productivity. NightWatchman is one of the most [...]
Full StoryMigrate7: Windows 7 migration and upgrade software from Tranxition
Can you please tell me a bit about Migrate7? How did you get the idea to create this product? Migrate7 has been around in various incarnations for over 10 years, having gotten its start providing support for migrating from Windows 95 to Windows 98 and Windows NT to Windows 2000. It has previously been sold [...]
Full StorySinequa Enterprise Search Solutions
Sinequa developed from 1985 till 2005 a linguistic and semantic search technology. (Prior to the bubble burst of 2000, it was called Cora) Since 2005, Sinequa has been shaping a Busines Search solution dedicated to enterprise search and search based applications. Sinequa sells its software under licenses and includes among its customers blue chips such [...]
Full StoryService Now – IT Service Management Software
Service-now.com was founded in 2004 with the goal of refocusing the IT service management (ITSM) software industry on the customer and the real problems people in IT departments need to solve every day. Many IT departments are still using software from incumbent vendors who developed their technologies in the early 1980s and 1990s. With heavy [...]
Full StoryData Connectors IT Conferences
Data Connectors is a producer of IT conferences, expositions and networking events which are aimed at IT decision makers. Their primary focus in holding these events is to expose IT executives to the latest trends in IT for business. This group works closely with industry leaders in order to help uncover the latest trends which [...]
Full StoryOSAM Document Management and Imaging Software, Services and Products
In 1912, the same year Arizona became a state, Remington Rand Corporation opened a branch office in Phoenix to meet the needs of the new state’s businesses and government offices. OSAM was not yet a twinkle in the eye of its parent, Remington Rand, but their roots in the office systems and machines business were [...]
Full StorySwiftlight Software easy project management and presentation
Swiftlight is a “light” project management application for Windows desktops/PCs. It’s targeted mainly at the general business manager – someone for whom traditional project management tools are overly complex – and it offers a simple planning structure, high quality PowerPoint like graphics and outstanding ease of use. The idea for Swiftlight came from the frustrations [...]
Full StoryExpensify SaaS expense reporting
Expensify was born out of personal frustration. David Barrett went on a business trip to India with a team of 9, and a mini-economy built up around receipts: one person would sell a $10 receipt to another at a huge discount, like $8. That 20% gap represented just how much pain there was to actually [...]
Full StoryLogicMonitor Datacenter and Server Monitoring
Today, I’ll be interviewing Steve Francis, who is CEO of Logic Monitor, a leading provider of server and datacenter monitoring systems. Tell me about logicMonitor. How did your company start? LogicMonitor is what I always wanted when I ran datacenters, but could never find. I ran networks and datacenters for UCSB, National Geographic Society, Citrix [...]
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