Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Microsoft Interoperability’ files: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 (RHEL 6.4) is now generally available after first appearing in Beta back in December of 2012. Since RHEL 6.x is still in the first phase of its lifecycle, Red Hat is still adding new features. For me the biggest pile that stand out are the […]

Carney was named the new CEO of Brocade on January 14, and on February 14, one month later, discussed his company’s first quarter fiscal 2013 earnings. For the quarter, Brocade reported record revenue of $589 million, which is a 5 percent year-over-year gain. Brocade’s SAN product revenue was reported at $362 million for a 3 […]

This week the Fast IDentity Online Alliance (FIDO) officially launched with a promise to usher in a new era of strong authentication interoperability and usage models. NokNok Labs, a security startup led by the former CEO of PGP that just raised $15 million in a funding round, is among the vendors supporting the effort. “The […]

OpenShift Enterprise 1.1 is an incremental update to OpenShift Enterprise 1.0, which was released at the end of November 2012. OpenShift is Red Hat’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) platform and the Enterprise edition is for on-site private deployments. Red Hat also has the open source OpenShift Origin project and the OpenShift online effort as well. Ashesh Badani, […]

Back in 2008, when Canonical was still ramping up as big Linux player – Mark Shuttleworth told me that his company was not cash flow positive. At the time, that made sense, after all what startup is immediately profitable. Fast forward to 2013 and during a call announcing Ubuntu for Tablets and Shuttleworth once again […]

The Certificate Authority Security Council(CASC) aims to advance the state of Internet security and act as an advocacy and standards building group for the SSL industry. The CASC’s initial membership consists of the largest CAs in the world, including GoDaddy, Symantec, Trend Micro, Comodo, DigiCert and Entrust. “The reason for creating the Security Council is […]

Cisco Systems reported second quarter fiscal 2013 earnings late Wednesday. For the quarter, Cisco reported Net Sales of $12.1 billion for a 5 percent year-over-year gain. Net Income was reported at $3.1 billion, which is a 44 percent improvement over the second quarter of 2012. Moving forward, Cisco provided third quarter guidance for revenue growth […]

Twenty of the top networking vendors in the world, among them Cisco, Juniper, Ciena and Huawei, have now passed the CE 2.0 certification process and are set to usher in a new era of Carrier Grade Ethernet services. John Hawkins, senior adviser for Carrier Ethernet at Ciena, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet that CE 2.0 […]

Rackspace reported its fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2012 earnings late Tuesday, showing continued growth in its cloud business. Net revenue for the full year was reported at $1.31 billion, up by 28 percent from the $1.03 billion in 2011. Demand for open source cloud technologies is so strong that multiple vendors, including IBM, […]

President Obama formally announced his new cybersecurity initiative during his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. The initiative is defined by an Executive Order that he signed on the same day. “America must face the rapidly growing threat from cyber-attacks,” President Obama said during his speech. He added that the U.S. knows that […]

PHP 5.5 is now in its development cycle, currently at the Alpha 4 release. According to the initial release roadmap for PHP 5.5, this is the point where the feature freeze was supposed to happen, but that’s not necessarily going to happen, as at least one key feature may yet still land. Zend co-founder Zeev […]

F5 announced the acquisition of SDN services vendor Linerate this week. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed at this time. Nigel Burmeister, Director of Product Marketing at F5 Networks, told Enterprise Networking Planet that most of LineRate employees will be joining F5. Burmeister added that F5 is committed to investing in […]