Sean Michael Kerner

Avaya this week announced its latest cloud effort, the Collaborative Cloud for Cloud Service Providers. The effort leverages a number of innovative technologies to provide a differentiated multi-tenant communications experience. Bruce MacVarish,director product management for Avaya Cloud Solutions explained to EntepriseNetworkingPlanet that a key part of the solution is the Avaya Control Manager. “Control Manager is […]

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is now encouraging Cloud providers and users to embrace the Service Organization Control (SOC) version 2 report standard. In a video interview with Datamation, John Howie, the Chief Operating Officer of the CSA, detailed the myriad standards for clouds that might be applicable and what his organization sees as the […]

Late last week, Apple updated its Mac OS X operating system to version 10.8.3 fixing at least 21 flaws. Among the high-impact flaws is CVE-2013-0967, which is an update to the OS X CoreType library. The flaw could have enabled an attacker to exploit Java flaws, even on Mac OS X machines where Java was […]

From the ‘Linux Kernel Exploit’ files: Earlier this month, Google Chrome running Chrome OS (Linux!) was hailed as being a survivor in the Pwnium/Pwn2own event that hacked IE, Firefox and Chrome browsers on Windows. Apple’s Safari running on Mac OS X was not hacked and neither (apparently) was Chrome on Chrome OS. Google disclosed this […]

From the ‘GNU? What’s New?’ files:GCC has been around for 26 years and it remains one of the most important and widely used open source efforts of all time.This week, the latest incarnation of GCC should be released with GCC 4.8. As with every GCC release, performance optimizations are to be found throughout, improving compilation […]

“We know Reader has a devoted following who will be very sad to see it go. We’re sad too.” Alan Green, Software Engineer at Google on the shutdown of the Google Reader RSS service (Google) “There will always be work for us as an organization and our work will never be done.” John Howie, COO […]

Bluebox is a mobile security startup backed by Andreeson Horowitz and Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim. The company’s Chief Scientist is well known application security expert Jeff Forristal, better known in the security community as Rain Forest Puppy. He is credited with the discovery of the SQL injection as an application attack. Forristal’s company is […]

Cisco detailed its views on the IoT during its Editors Day event, parading out a conga line of distinguished technologists and engineers to talk about the future connected world. “The value at stake of the Internet of Everything is $14.4 Trillion,” Rob Lloyd, Cisco’s president of Development and Sales, said during the event. The value […]

VMware is already well positioned in the private cloud space with its existing vCloud and vSphere product offerings. The company is now aiming to gain a foothold in the emerging hybrid cloud space as well. To that end, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger announced this week that his company is working on a new vCloud Hybrid […]

The openSUSE 12.3 release is the first from the project to provide support for booting on hardware that uses UEFI Secure Boot technology. The project has also opted to use the open source MariaDB database as its default offering, instead of the Oracle-led MySQL database. Schweikert said that users will still be able to choose […]

From the ‘HipHop?’ files: Facebook is one of the biggest PHP users on the planet and they seem to think they can do more on their own, then the php community can do. In 2010, Facebook developers built HipHop as a newer/faster PHP runtime. Now Facebook is going after security with the new XHP extension. […]

From the ‘Is Google Evil?’ files: In its infinite wisdom, Google is closing its Reader RSS service on July 1st, 2013. As a user of Reader since the service was started back in 2005, i’m not particularly happy, though I’m not surprised either. RSS and Atom feeds are quite literally the fuel that powers my […]