Best of Interop 2013 Award Winners

Couldn’t travel to Las Vegas for Interop this year? We got you covered with this look at the Best of Interop 2013 Award winners. The judges chose the best of 149 product submissions in these 10 categories:

1. Networking
2. Cloud Computing and Virtualization
3. Data Center and Storage
4. Management and Monitoring
5. Performance Optimization and Testing
6. Security
7. Wireless, Mobility and BYOD Support
8. Best Startup
9. Audience Choice award
10. Best of Interop Grand Award

ExtraHop Networks provides a platform for real-time operational intelligence capable of auto-discovering and auto-classifying all applications and systems out of the box. ExtraHop for AWS impressed the judges with its capability to use a “virtual tap” to provide correlated, real-time visibility into the performance of your network in the cloud. ExtraHop works across your entire workload, both on-premise and in the cloud.

Talari Networks’ new Adaptive Private Network (APN) 3.0 software is designed to dynamically build fully meshed connections in reaction to application demand across an aggregated virtual WAN consisting of broadband, leased-line and other links. This gives an enterprise network the capability to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns and bandwidth demands.

The Hacker Academy’s HackRack is a virtualized training environment for information security. It simulates threat scenarios, giving information security professionals experience in responding to a variety of threats. The judges said it was fast and versatile and will help enterprises get the skills they need to respond to the latest attacks.

VD0360 is a video conferencing provider. The judges singled the startup out for the combination of its highly functional USB camera and unified communications conferencing cart, all at a low cost. The VDO360 solution is compatible with many commonly available software codecs, including Skype, Cisco Jabber, Vidyo, Lifesize Communicator, Microsoft Lync, Seevogh, Polycom m100 and Avaya/Radvision Scopia.

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