Sean Michael Kerner

ISC(2) is releasing its sixth Global Information Security Workforce Study (GISWS) today, providing insight into the current state of the IT security work force. The topline result from the study is that most IT security professionals believe their organizations are understaffed. Worse, the situation is stressing out and straining the IT security workforce. Seventy-one percent […]

Juniper is launching new security insight technology this week at the RSA 2013 conference. Topping the Juniper new product list is Spotlight Secure What Spotlight Secure does is it tracks individual devices in a massive database, in an effort to block bad users and help to make sure that the good user can still get […]

From the ‘Mobile to Desktop’ files: With all the hype today surrounding the FirefoxOS launch, it’s important to note that Mozilla’s mobile efforts may well have a positive impact on the desktop browser too. Phones (Android or FirefoxOS) are resource constrained devices and as such Mozilla developers have done alot of great work to get […]

HP this week took the wraps off the biggest evolution of its BladeSystem portfolio in years. John Gromala, Director of Product Marketing, Industry Standard Servers and Software at HP told ServerWatch that the new BladeSystem c7000 Platinum enclosure and the new ProLiant WS460c Gen8 blade are the biggest things to happen to HP’s BladeSystem since […]

Last week, Juniper Networks announced its Networks Services Activation Director, which provides a centralized and automated way for carriers to provision new customers. Brad Brooks, VP of Marketing and Business Strategy for the Software Solutions Division at Juniper, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet that the new system leverage an SDN approach to eliminate a lot […]

RSA Conference 2013 starts today, kicking off one of the biggest event in the infosec calendar. The RSA Conference is also evolving in terms of the types of content and sessions. Hugh Thompson, program committee chairman for the RSA Conference, noted that just a few years ago the agenda included sessions with titles such as […]

Since VCE was launched, 1,000 Vblock-converged infrastructure systems have been shipped to customers. The Vblock is the core of the VCE offering and includes Cisco compute, VMware virtualization and EMC storage technologies in a fully integrated offering. VCE is now expanding its product portfolio with a new series of Vblock systems as well as a […]

HP this week made announcement that are enhancing its HP Cloud offering with several new services and a partner program aimed at growing the cloud market. The new services include cloud monitoring, load balancing and DNS services. Dan Baigent, Senior Director, Product Development, Cloud Services at HP, explained to Datamation that the new services are […]

Oracle this week released a patch update providing an additional five fixes for Java. Three of the five fixes carry the highest possible CVSS base score of 10, and all five exploits are remotely exploitable without user authentication. “The purpose of this update is to deliver five additional fixes which could not be included when […]

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth this week announced the new Ubuntu Tablet interface. For Shuttleworth, the Ubuntu Tablet is a natural extension of his company’s convergence strategy. “It’s exactly the same code that will give you a phone, tablet, TV or PC experience,” Shuttleworth said during a press conference today. “It is one single platform that […]

In an SDN approach, the underlying network intelligence can be abstracted from the physical hardware. Enabling SDN is the OpenFlow protocol, which can run across networking infrastructure from multiple vendors, including HP. In order to control an SDN network, a controller is required, which is something that HP has not had until now. HP is […]

The Linux 3.8 release is the first new Linux kernel release of 2013 and follows the Linux 3.7 kernel, which debuted in December. Among the big items in the Linux 3.7 release was improved support for the ARM processor architecture. In contrast, the Linux 3.8 kernel does not add an processor architecture; instead, it is […]