Tuesday morning keynotes

The morning keynotes were a series of sales pitches by HP, Citrix and Cisco with a wonderful walk down memory lane placed in the middle.

HP talked about their new management console, who's name I didn't write down. It is cloud aware and multi vendor.

Citrix talked about their new Net scaler appliance runs Xen.

Vint Cerf and Dan Lynch did a delightful "fireside chat" with lots of great stories about the beginnings of the Internet and Interop. Vint Cerf is considered the father of the Internet and wrote the TCP protocol that is still the mainstay of the Internet today. He mentioned that June 8th is IP v6 day.  It will be turned up at most places around the world on that day.
Dan Lynch was in charge of the Interop network, amoung other things for many years and also had some great stories.

Cisco talked about the Consumerization of IT. Mobile devices, wireless, social and the cloud driving are driving this. There is expected to be 7 devices per person on the internet by 2013. Video will be 57% of consumer traffic by 2015.

Everyone mentioned the cloud over and over again. It was part of almost every topic covered during the two hours of presentations.