After Interop

 

After Interop
At last week's Interop trade show in Las Vegas, there were two main topics of conversation: wireless computing and security. The greatest change I heard discussed is the new realization that a wireless platform is going to be part of the enterprise infrastructure from now on. As wireless becomes part of the infrastructure, the target will be an environment in which the user doesn't know (and doesn't need to care about) what sort of network they're connecting to--they'll simply connect to the enterprise application wherever they are, over the network that is most appropriate at the time. The challenge for IT is creating the security and application delivery infrastructure to create a seamless user experience regardless of where the user is when they access the application. The challenge for users? Understanding that enterprise information is only as secure as their least secure method of accessing the network. The takeaway from Interop is that networking is going to change dramatically in the next two years. The good news is that many of the tools that will create the new environment are already in place--we just have to understand how to put them together in the new enterprise. - Curtis