Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘open source rulez’ files: The big news in the tech world that emerged over the weekend is that Yahoo is set to repeat its decade old mistake and acquire Tumblr (Geocities redux) for $1 Billion. I’m not a fan of Tumblr, but I am a fan of freedom and WordPress, both of which […]

“OpenFlow is the standard, and it serves user needs. You’d have to ask the vendors how well it serves their individual needs.” Dan Pitt, Executive Director of the Open Networking Foundation (Enterprise Networking Planet) “There is not a magic thing that you do to make a system this complex, secure” Chris Kemp talking about security […]

Over the course of the last year, multiple vendors have emerged with SDN strategies that take aim at OpenFlow’s perceived shortcomings. For example, Juniper Networks has said that while it will support OpenFlow, its initial SDN controller plans don’t include it. Non-OpenFlow vendors have been pushing a general sentiment that OpenFlow is a forklift upgrade […]

The new Scale Computing HC3x expands on the initial HC3 servers with increased scale and performance. The HC3x starts off with a 3-node system with each node powered by a 6-core Intel Xeon E5 2400 and packed with 64 GB of memory. Vanessa Alvarez, Head of Marketing at Scale Computing, explained to ServerWatch that at […]

Cisco reported its third quarter fiscal 2013 earnings late Wednesday, showing overall growth and optimism for the rest of the year. For the quarter, Cisco reported net sales of $12.2 billion, a 5 percent year-over-year gain. Net income was reported at $2.5 billion, or $0.46 per share, representing a 15 percent year-over-year increase. Moving forward, […]

From the ‘PHP on Python’ files: I’ve been tracking the Zend Framework since 2005when Zend co-founder Andi Gutmans first launched the effort as a sort-of PHP middleware effort. Over the years, Zend Framework has grown and this week, Zend Framework 2.2 is being officially released. This latest Zend Framework has lots of goodness in it, […]

From the ‘enterprise browser’ files: Ok, I know… the ‘E’ in Firefox ESR does not stand for ‘Enterprise’, but it should. The ESR – Extended Support Release is an effort to help organizations stay with a secure version of Firefox for longer period of times than the current fast track six-week release cycle of Firefox. […]

IBM announced a new initiative in China this week, in an effort to help grow the position of Linux on Power. The new initiative will see a Power Systems Linux Center, located inside of IBM’s China Systems Center in Beijing. The center will be staffed by over 30 dedicated Linux professionals that are tasked with […]

On the security front, Mozilla has issued three critical security advisories with the Firefox 21 release. All three deal with memory related vulnerabilities and exploitations. Some of the flaws were reported by Google security researchers using the open source Address Sanitizer tool. “Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the […]

Microsoft is out this week with its May Patch Tuesday update, which includes 10 bulletins fixing 33 vulnerabilities across Microsoft products. Included among those fixes are two critical patches for two-month-old vulnerabilities in IE disclosed at Pwn2own, as well as a patch for a zero-day vulnerability just disclosed last week. The MS13-038 bulletin details a […]

While cloud and SDN are key drivers for Cisco’s networking business, so too is the Internet of Everything concept. Cisco is forecasting the Internet of Everything to be a massive market worth $14.5 Trillion. The Internet of Everything is fueling a need for Big Data and analytics, which in turn requires a big increase in […]

How and why did Python become the language of choice for OpenStack? To answer that question, Datamation sat down in a video interview with Joshua McKenty, co-founder and CTO of Piston Cloud and one of the key figures at NASA in the original Nebula cloud compute project. McKenty wrote a study for NASA examining what […]