Sean Michael Kerner

Employees in enterprises across the U.S. are expected to be watching the NCAA March Madness Basketball tournament during work hours, with as many as one-third of all employees watching March Madness for three hours or more on Thursday and Friday. So what should an enterprise IT manager do? For networking vendor Cisco, the answer is […]

Oracle reported third quarter fiscal 2013 earnings late Wednesday, with revenues coming in at $9.0 billion for a 1 percent year-over-year decline. Net income was reported at $2.5 billion, which is unchanged from 2012. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said during the call that next week his company will announce a new generation of servers powered […]

I personally believe that open source is a better methodology for building, procuring and deploying software. However I also know full well that when it comes to security, configuration choices and implementation often make the difference between being breach and being safe. So when I recently chatted with the Cloud Security Alliance – I asked […]

From the ‘open source VoIP’ files I’ve been an Asterisk fan (and user) ever since the first release of the open source VoIP PBX back in 2004. Asterisk is an application that runs on Linux and it can sometimes require some interesting packages and can be somewhat challenging to install, which is what led Digium […]

This week Cisco updated its collaboration portfolio with new software intended to optimize collaboration. “We are enabling more efficient conferencing through new software on our existing TelePresence infrastructure,” Ulrica de Fort-Menares, Director of Product Management for Cisco medianet, told Enterprise Networking Planet. “This new software can allocate conferencing resources by endpoint – and this works […]

Concurrent announced this week that it has raised $4 million in a Series A funding round. “The whole Big Data space is frothy, so a lot of VCs have approached Concurrent to put money in,” Concurrent CEO Gary Nakamura told Enterprise Apps Today. “The timing is pretty good, since Cascading as a development framework for […]

Cryptography today is as necessary as ever and Paul Kocher, co-author of the SSL 3.0 specification compares it to bricks in a building, in that that it is a foundational technology. “I started my careers working on protocols like SSL 3 and had this sort of naive optimism that if we got the protocols and […]

From the ‘It’s Done, When It’s Done’ files: Watching Debian Linux releases come together has always been a long and drawn out process. Few other Linux projects (if any) have the same breadth of platform support or packages and few (if any) have the same fiercely principled approach (hurray Debian Free Software Guidelines) to development […]

Warren East has held the CEO job at ARM since 2001, overseeing 12 years of rapid growth that has seen ARM usage skyrocket in usage. ARM is broadly used in consumer electronics and is now ramping up to be a major player in the server world as well. ARM Holdings today announced that the East […]

Lawrence Reusing, general manager for Mobile Security at storage vendor Imation, says enterprises can safely use removable storage media. Reusing oversees the IronKey mobile security portfolio which includes secure USB storage devices. When it comes to the broad industry number on how removable storage policies are employed, the numbers aren’t encouraging. According to Reusing, approximately […]

The next major release of the open source OpenStack cloud platform, code named ‘Grizzly’ is nearing release. By the end of this week, all the core projects within OpenStack should be at the Release Candidate (RC) 1 stage. Currently the Glance (image store), Swift, Cinder (storage),  Horizon (dashboard) and Quantum(networking) projects all have their respective […]

The PTX3000 has a depth of only 10.6 inches, yet has a current capacity of 3.84 Terabits per second. Juniper has a plan to scale the system all the way up to 24 Tbps in a single box with future line card upgrades. Mike Marcellin, SVP of strategy and marketing for the platform systems division […]