Sean Michael Kerner

In an exclusive video interview with Enterprise Networking Planet, Rob Soderbery answers questions about the risks to Cisco’s switching business, where SDN fits in and why the Catalyst is one of the most successful pieces of networking technology ever created. For Soderbery a key challenge is making sure that Cisco is continuing to service existing […]

From the ‘Hosting Linux’ files: Dreamhost is one of the most popular web hosting companies and it has long been a strong support of Debian Linux. Dreamhost isn’t making the move to Wheezy which was recently released. Instead Dreamhost is moving to Ubuntu – apparently because they see it as being more stable. “About ten […]

The debate about when is the right time to responsibly disclose a vulnerability is as old as the Information Security business itself. This past week, Google provided fresh fuel for the fire by announcinga new seven day disclosure policy for critical vulnerabilities that are under active exploitation. Is seven days the right number ? The […]

“Android may not be my or your first choice of Linux, but it is without doubt an open source platform that offers both practical and economic benefits to users and industry.” Ubuntu Linux Founder Mark Shuttleworth declaring bug #0 as closed (InternetNews) “The Catalyst 6500 is absolutely the switch that runs the world, every enterprise, […]

From the ‘Firefox Ate the SeaMonkey’ files: The open source Camino web browser is no more. Camino, much like SeaMonkey on Windows was kinda/sorta an extension of the historical Netscape/Mozilla browser, except Camino was for Mac OS X. Reality is of course that with Chrome, Firefox and even Safari now all are very good browsers, […]

Rajiv Ramaswami is the Executive Vice-President and General Manager of the Infrastructure and Networking Group at Broadcom and he is leading his company’s networking efforts. In an exclusive video interview with Enterprise Networking Planet Ramaswami details where ARM fits in and why continued silicon innovation is necessary. “We’re a chip company and we build chips,” […]

IDC reported global first quarter 2013 server revenue to be $10.9 billion, which is a 7.7 percent year-over-year decline. Gartner reported the revenue decline to be only 5.0 percent, coming in at $11.8 billion. In terms of server shipments, IDC reported that 1.9 million units were shipped in 1Q13, which is a 3.1 percent year-over-year […]

From the ‘Mission Accomplished’ files: The very first bug that Mark Shuttleworth ever entered for his nascent Ubuntu Linux distribution back in August of 2004 has now been fixed. Microsoft has a majority market share Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug which Ubuntu and other […]

Sometimes, lightning really does strike twice in the same spot. JouleX was founded by Tom Noonan in 2010 after his successful exit from Internet Security System (ISS). ISS was sold to IBM for $1.3 billion in 2006. On Wednesday, Noonan’s JouleX was acquired by Cisco for $107 million. JouleX builds power management technology for data […]

Cisco is pegging 2017 Internet traffic to come in at 1.4 zettabytes, while all traffic from 1984-2012 combined only totals 1.2 zettabytes. While the numbers seem big, the forecast is roughly in line with expectations. Cisco’s 2012 VNI report looked at the period from 2011-2016 and forecast 2016 traffic to hit 1.3 exabytes. Arielle Sumits, […]

Mozilla has made significant strides in recent years to secure the browser and has a roadmap to make the browser even safer in the future. “A lot of the security work from us is not a silver bullet solution,” Johnathan Nightingale, VP of Firefox Engineering at Mozilla told eSecurity Planet. “It’s really about careful consideration […]

In an exclusive video interview with InternetNews.com, F5 CTO Karl Triebes details why he joined F5 in the first place and what drives him and his product direction today. The trend that drove Triebes to F5 back in 2004 was the realization that applications need network awareness and services to meet user needs. Over the […]