On the Editor’s Desk

Every show needs an identity, right? Something that separates it from the myriad industry events that populate the landscape?
ESX may be getting there. Maybe first and foremost, there is the Club Crawl. Is it a little ridiculous that a large industry event would define itself with a frat-party-like atmosphere on the first day of [...]

Axis has posted its preliminary numbers for Jan.-March 2010 and they’re pretty pleased with themselves. First, the details (I encourage you to download the PDF on that page for the full story):
Unfortunately, Axis reports its number in Swedish Kroners, which makes numbers a pain in the butt to report, but today the Kroner is worth [...]

As part of my ISC West coverage, I related a little bit of the press briefing put on by Axis, during which I made myself slightly irritating by asking questions about their claim to sell “100 percent through the channel.”
How could this be, I wondered aloud (and have been wondering), when any schmuck can buy [...]

As I prepare to get warmed up for the 5k in a couple hours, I wanted to get some thoughts down from yesterday’s meetings here at the first day of ISC West. It’s a good show in general, so far, with people very upbeat, but I think that also stems from the people I met [...]

I intend to use this as a running log of the press releases I get sent surrounding ISC West. Many are embargoed until tomorrow, which makes no sense to me, but there are a few that have already come in, and I’ll post pieces of them below.
To my consternation, many of these releases still [...]

There’s a strange vibe to ISC East already this year. While there was much speculation that ISC East might be a bigger show this year, since people on the east coast with trimmed travel budgets wouldn’t want to hit either Las Vegas for ISC West or Anaheim for ASIS, I haven’t exactly picked up on [...]

Sorry for the delay on this, but with travel and some office things that needed attention I haven’t been able to find the time to sit down and smash all of Day 2 into a neat little entry. Now, with snow piling up outside the home-office window, I think I’ve got an opening (barring small [...]

Well, we had a great first day here in Dallas for TechSec Solutions, now in year 5, with some well-received presentations and some interesting technology on the show floor.
Attendance is a bit down - I’m not sure how we could have avoided that in this climate - but spirits are surprisingly up. Those people [...]

The folks at Milestone today pointed me to a blog entry by John Blem, their CTO, regarding this whole standards issue that’s been getting a lot of attention (from me, anyway), with the PSIA, SIA, and ONVIF (Sony-Axis-Bosch) initiatives.
I’m going to ignore for a moment that he’s linking to John Honovich’s standards post and not [...]

I found an interesting article in today’s Times about IBM throwing a bit of a hissy fit because a standards discussion was not going its way. Essentially, IBM is threatening to bail out of certain standards bodies unless they change the way they go about their business.
For example,
Microsoft submitted OOXML to the ISO under a [...]