InteropNet: What an Interesting Year

February 23rd, 2009 by Julia Lim

I was recently in San Francisco for the launch of the 2009 InteropNet Effort.  As we mentioned in a recent blog post, ScienceLogic was selected as the Monitoring and Help Desk Vendor for both Interop shows in 2009.  Given the great experience we had doing this in 2008, we were thrilled to be selected again in 2009.  This year is a particularly interesting year for Interop, or actually for all tradeshows in general.  With the global recession and cost cutting occurring throughout the business world, being able to show and measure value for participation in an effort as large as InteropNet is especially important.

While I was out at the UBM office in San Francisco, I had the chance to sit down with Lenny Heymann, the VP and General Manager of Interop.  We spent some time talking about how hard the Interop Team is working to market the show and be sure that the attendees and vendors see the value of the show.  This year, more than ever, they’re concentrated on it.  One idea that Lenny had was to “open up” the usually closed InteropNet setup process.  Each year we spend several weeks planning the network, the security, the addressing, etc.  This is all done behind closed doors and there’s some thought that perhaps these doors should be open.  If one of the missions of Interop is to provide education to the attendees, the InteropNet work is certainly a way to learn about building a five nines network in a very constrained timeframe.  It’s truly a fast-forward version of an enterprise trying to build a network from the ground up and get all of the vendors interoperating in the right way. Because, let’s face it, when would you ever get the engineers from Citrix, Coyote Point, McAfee, Enterasys, ScienceLogic (and more) all in the same room together to make sure all the systems interoperate? That’s exactly what InteropNet does and the hope is that opening the doors up gives attendees unprecedented access to it all, in real-life and real-time.

The real question is: Would anyone be interested in a peek behind the curtain?  Would such a peek encourage you to attend Interop, if you weren’t already planning to?

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• June 11, 2008 -- Interop Las Vegas 2008 – Some Interesting Stats
• August 27, 2010 -- Update on InteropNet 2010 Hot Stage
• August 18, 2010 -- Summer Heating up with InteropNet Hot Stage

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