Sean Michael Kerner

The first beta release for Fedora 19, aka Schrodinger’s Cat, is now available. Fedora is  taking some specific steps with Schrodinger’s Cat to make sure it is an ideal development base for developers. To that end, Fedora 19 includes the latest releases of popular open source development languages and frameworks such as node.js, PHP 5.5 […]

From the ‘Resistance is Futile’ files: For more years than I care to count, I read statements and saw Microsoft server events where Bob Muglia declared why Microsoft’s server was so good. Muglia no longer works for Microsoft (he moved to Juniper two years ago) and he no longer oversees a software portfolio that is […]

Sitting at the core of the Wi-Fi revolution is the Wi-Fi Alliance, which advances wireless technology and certifies interoperability. In an exclusive video interview with Enterprise Networking Planet, Wi-Fi Alliance CEO Edgar Figueroa detailed some of the key new innovations coming in the wireless landscape. Read the full story at Enterprise Networking Planet: What is […]

Why is Juniper supporting OpenStack? That’s a question that Bob Muglia, the EVP of the Software Solutions Division at Juniper, answers in a video interview. While Juniper is a networking hardware vendor, under Muglia’s guidance the company is transforming itself to have a software basis as well. Muglia puts OpenStack and CloudStack together, even though […]

How do you secure content in a multi-tenant cloud environment that you don’t directly control? That’s the challenge that new startup AlephCloud is aiming to solve. AlephCloud is still a company in stealth mode, but it is already attracting interest. This week the company announced a $7.5 million Series B round of financing, bringing the […]

From the ‘open source naming’ files: The current OpenStack open source cloud platform release is named Grizzly – due to the fact that OpenStack had a Summit in San Diego, which is in California, which has a Grizzly bear on its flag. The next release of OpenStack is codenamed Havana, which an unincorporated community in […]

“Employee choice is not just about anything but Blackberry” Brett Belding, senior manager of IT mobility services at Cisco talking about Cisco’s approach to BYOD (EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet), “SMS message to a registered phone is widely usable and very much in line with the original character of the Twitter service”Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of Qualys talking about Twitter’s […]

Brett Belding, senior manager of IT mobility services at Cisco, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet that Cisco mandated the use of BYOD in 2009. Cisco encourages employees to use devices for both personal and corporate use. “We have a very pragmatic policy for usage, which is, so long as you don’t exceed the average inside […]

Twitter’s two-factor system is not an application or token-based approach, but instead is strictly tied to a user’s mobile phone via SMS. Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of security firm Qualys, told eSecurity Planet that he likes the way that Twitter has implemented two-factor authentication. “SMS message to a registered phone is widely usable and very much […]

From the ‘Don’t Download This’ file: Google Code got started back in 2006 as an alternative open source code hosting repository and collaborative development site. At the time of its creation, I had thought that it would competitive with Sourceforge (which it was), but as it turns out Sourceforge will now get the last laugh. […]

From the ‘Good Things Come in Small Packages’ files: You can now add another Linux distro to the list that will run on the Raspberry Pi. The core distro for the small device is the Debian based Raspian and there is also an Arch based Linux for the Pi too. And now once again, we’ve […]

F5 is converging its application and WAN optimization solutions into a new unified offering, known as the BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager (AAM). “Web optimization is on the front end side of things and includes content transformation and minification, but there is also a protocol that needs to be optimized,” Dawn Parzych, product manager at F5 […]