My Five Favorite Videos from Interop 2011

Were you at Interop last year? Want to relive all the excitement? Probably not, so why don’t you just check out some of the best videos I shot at the event while I was reporting for Dice.

Here are my five favorite videos from Interop 2011

	Google’s Vinton Cerf on the company’s culture of tolerating failure – Watch me make an incredibly stupid mistake interviewing one of the legends of the Internet
	Interop 2011: Tour of the Network Operations Center (NOC) – The coolest thing they do at Interop every year, and I take a tour of the entire thing.
	Funniest trade show booth I’ve ever seen – This was awesome, a mechanical bull on the trade show floor.
	The latest trend in IT is the democratization of IT – My interview with Lenny Heymann, General Manager of the entire conference.
	CIO Boot Camp: Is your IT department a Terminator? Is it Sponge Bob? Or is it Colin Powell? – IT departments get no respect.

Here are 25 more videos from Interop 2011

	CIO Boot Camp: Meet EnviroTech’s entire IT department, Vincent
	Do you need (or want) 169 terabytes of traffic per second?
	Ciphertex’s handy five terabyte carry-it-with-you RAID storage
	Vint Cerf: More applications need to share and reuse spectrum
	Google’s Vint Cerf on flowing in and out of multimedia conversation modes
	Netscout provides deeper insight into voice and video traffic
	Digital analytics for foot traffic
	Vidyo’s video conferencing solution lies somewhere between Polycom and Skype
	Interop 2011 Grand Prize Winner: Performance analytics for your virtual environment
	The best way to prepare for a giant network attack is to create one yourself
	Cisco offers application administrators real-time insight into the network
	Extracting the benefits of fiber when you only have a copper network
	Spiceworks — Free network monitoring and social network
	The best testing environment is the one that simulates real traffic through your network
	NEC’s Programmable Flow Switch automatically configures switches
	Citrix Receiver: One solution for onboarding any mobile device
	Moving everyday files quickly to and from the cloud
	CIO Boot Camp: Decision making under massive uncertainty
	CIO Boot Camp: Letting students pass digital notes in school and church
	CIO Boot Camp: What I really want to do is virtualize
	CIO Boot Camp: What technology do you want to retire?
	CIO Boot Camp: How can my technical infrastructure compete against the agility of a start up?
	CIO Boot Camp: What do IT directors have in common?
	CIO Boot Camp: Jumping the Curve: Switching from old to new technology
	What’s everybody talking about at Interop?