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Just got back from the pavilion, and I’m all set for the second round of presentations. I am the kind of person that can absolutely admit when I’m wrong, and I’m doing that right now: I have scientifically verified that Kristen Nicole of mashable is, indeed, a carbon-based life form. I admit it- I jumped to conclusions when claiming that she was, instead, a cyborg sent back from the future to make all of us bloggers feel insecure about our own productivity.

On the matchmine front, we’ve been getting some great attention and coverage due to DEMO.

Okay, time to end the shameless self-promotion. The session is ready to begin. This session runs from 2-4:00 pm and covers “Enablers and Sea-Changers.” Here we go!

2:07 PM- jasper wireless

“Machines are talking.”

Talking about how machines are communicating with each other rather than people and their cell phones. Jasper wireless is the platform for connecting machines to machines. Since machines know nothing about geographical boundaries, Jasper is offering a single network that let machines communicate and talk to each other regardless of where they are.

2:14 pm- Talari Networks
“demoing network infrastructure is just not sexy.”

He’s right, and I am having a tough time writing about this. So, instead, I’m just going to grab info from their site. Here are their selling points:

• Delivers 30x - 100x the bandwidth per dollar
• Reduces monthly WAN service costs by 40% - 90%
• Enables safe, reliable deployment of VoIP and videoconferencing on your IP WAN, and
• Offers greater reliability than existing private corporate WANs that use single-provider Frame Relay or MPLS services.

I have to admit…I’m just not an infrastructure guy. To me, infrastructure is something I take for granted. It’s ubiquitous to me. I completely understand the amazing complexity behind WANs and things like packet transfer, but I would be a liar if I tried to talk about these things intelligently.

2:21 pm- propel software

propel pbm- personal bandwidth management. Allowing users to control which applications get bandwidth preference. The example: uploading large files while making a skype call. With propel, you can give preference to something like a skype call and de-emphasize a file upload. Using propel pbm, you can prioritize bandwidth utilization.

“wouldn’t it be nice if there was a product that could automatically mange all your software bandwidth management?”

Well, I think so. They’ve got a point.

The demo right now is using propel pb and skype compared to a skype call without pbm.

This stuff is pretty interesting to me, as I’m often on a pretty flaky wireless connection. Let’s say I’m doing some video uploading to YouTube while also watching diggnation (this happened to me last week), and I’m on a rough wireless connection. The video slows to a crawl even though I am in no hurry to upload a video. It takes seconds for each word to come out of Kevin Rose’s mouth. Using pbm could really help here. Very interesting.

2:28 pm- fusion-io

Storage. Capacity.

They do “performance based storage.” They’re trying to “keep servers fed.” They’re showing the fusion io drive. They move the equivalent of 1 DVD every 5 seconds. 100,000 iops in one little pc card.

“For the marketing folks out there…..”

“Their little card has the transfer equivalent of 1,000 hard drives. Power of the SAN in the palm of your hand. ”

2:34 pm- Qumranet

Desktop virtualization. Their product is called solid ice, and you log in to a web based solution that shows your virtual desktops. This is like vmware, but instead of server virtualization, it works for the desktop.

Their first example is for a new hire. Using solid ice, you can create a new user, select the OS and provision the machine based on user needs. Instead of setting up a new machine each time, you can easily set up a new account based on user roles and needs.

This has substantial potential for IT administration. I like the idea of a centralized role administration console for sysadmins.

2:41pm- Phreesia

phreesia pad- Swipe card enabled pad that changes how patients sign in for health care. You can swipe anything with a magnetic strip and enter your information via a touchscreen interface.

phreesia seeks to give better patient intake information to doctors, thereby improving the quality and efficiency of health care information. phreesia is free to participating physicians.

Practices can customize which questions they want to ask their patients, and control what information is required. Practices also get a control panel which manages the patient information (HIPPA compliant). Phreesia also supports multiple export formats, allowing practices to send data to other applications.

2:48 pm- LogMeIn

Their product is called Rescue Mobile. When your smartphone misbehaves, logmein’s product allows a remote helpdesk tech to update the phone. They generate a random password allowing the helpdesk tech to remote control the device when the user enters the password. The connection is established, permission is granted by the user, and when the trusted relationship is formed, the tech can update/fix the phone. A chat connection is also displayed on the phone so the tech and end user can communicate without needing a voice connection.

Summary

That’s it for the “Enablers and Sea-Changers” session. Next is the “The Future: Through the Eyes of Young Innovators” panel. After that, the next presentation session is entitled “Rise of the Creative Class.”

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