At the Interop 2010 show in Las Vegas, TMC's Erik Linask had a chance to interview Diskeeper's Colleen Toumayan, Director of Public Relations.

The company's been around for 25 years or so, you might remember their product, the first automatic defragmenter for Windows. This reporter sure does.

Toumayan said that the company's helped Microsoft develop the API hooks that even allow defragmentation to take place at all. She said that Diskeeper "actually, really revolutionized the market. We've been the first to market with many new technologies in the defrag space, and now we have a new technology called IntelliWrite, which can actually prevent up to 85 percent of fragmentation from happening."

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At the Interop 2010 show in Las Vegas, TMC's CEO Rich Tehrani had a chance to interview Voltaire's Vice President of Marketing, Asaf Somekh. The company focuses on what Somekh called the "scale-out data center," and explained what they mean by "scale-out."

There's been a trend over the past few years, Somekh said, "where customers are designing and building new data centers," with hundreds and thousands of servers - he mentioned the recent news that eBay's building a data center with over 15,000 servers in one center.

"We see this trend growing and growing," he said, adding that when people are building large data centers, "obviously they want to use the commodity element, basically the Intel-based servers, and use them as building blocks for a data center that will scale and grow by adding more of these elements."

Obviously all of these customers use virtualization as well, he noted, "and the combination of virtualization and scale-out really changes the networking landscape." He described Voltaire's approach as "a way to build a data center that is dynamic," where if you need more resources "you add more of those commodity elements. And within the resources that you have, you can actually tunnel resources to a particular application that needs more at a particular time," or take resources from an application that is idle.

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At the Interop 2010 show in Las Vegas, TMC's CEO Rich Tehrani had a chance to interview Blue Coat Systems' Technical Marketing Manager, Eric Tooley, who described the company as an "application network delivery company."

Blue Coat's mission, Tooley said, is to "identify, secure and accelerate application traffic, no matter what network they happen to be on. Some of our most valuable applications are in the delivery of VoIP and video conferencing."

What they've found, Tooley said, is that "a lot of companies want to save money by switching to VoIP or video conferencing, reducing their fixed costs, and reducing their travel costs. But they're not sure if their current networks can support it. What you can do with Blue Coat is figure out what's running on your network today, see if you've got available bandwidth to support these new apps, and if you don't, see if you can reclaim some of that, maybe from apps that are less important."

(We do believe he's talking about our Minesweeper app here. Out of our cold, dead fingers, Mr. Tooley.)

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Child pornography "was allowed to remain on social-networking site Tagged.com for nearly two months after undercover investigators posed as users and reported the content to the site's administrators," New York's state attorney general's office charged Thursday.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office notes that Tagged, which targets teenagers, was slow to respond to complaints of "graphic images of children being sexually abused, inappropriate sexual communications between adults and minors, and content that advocates pedophilia."

The Associated Press reports that Cuomo's office notified Tagged.com "that it would sue the site if the problems were not resolved within five days, said Attorney General Andrew Cuomo."

Cuomo, who's running for governor and probably doesn't mind splashy news stories of him going after such lowlifes, said state authorities had targeted the site last summer and "accused it of stealing the identities of more than 60 million Internet users in a deceptive marketing campaign," according to the AP:

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Tearfund, a British Christian relief and development agency working with those in poverty in many of the poorest countries around the world, needed to ensure that their remote aid workers have secure and reliable access to applications and data.

The organization works in 60 countries in the developing world, through 300 indigenous, church- based organizations and supports over 1,000 front-line staff responding to natural and man-made disasters.

But given their personnel's limited access to applications due to high latency and packet loss over satellite networks, bandwidth capacity was becoming an increasing concern. Overseas programs were individually responsible for purchasing satellite bandwidth, but "the cost and quality of service were inconsistent and hampering productivity." 

In some cases establishing a VPN to the London network was not even possible.

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