Sean Michael Kerner

The IBM InfoSphere BigInsights solution, which is IBM’s optimized version of Hadoop, is being paired with QRadar to form the IBM Security Intelligence with Big Data solution. Kevin Skapinetz, program director of Product Strategy at IBM Security Systems, explained to eSecurity Planet that the combined solution is all about looking for patterns that are hidden […]

Extreme Networks this week introduced its support of Ethernet AVB (Audio Video Bridging) on its portfolio of networking gear, including the Summit X440, X460 and X670 switches, ushering in a new era of networking convergence. “You can plug your microphone, mixing board, your camera or whatever the audio/video device is, right into the Ethernet switch,” […]

With the IBM SmartCloud for SAP applications offering, the goal is to provide the same level of service and quality in the cloud to enterprises that they are used to getting in traditional data centers. Quan noted that the IBM service has 99.7 percent availability and is provided by the global footprint of IBM cloud […]

During a call with press and analysts on Monday, Thomas Kurian, executive VP of Product Development at Oracle, highlighted his company’s ongoing cloud application efforts. Kurian noted that since the summer of 2012, Oracle has updated its cloud offerings in a number of different ways. In the public cloud, Oracle now has new releases of […]

From the ‘Update or Fail’ files: A simple truth that many open source platform users know well is that often initial releases still have (a few) bugs. Real world usage tends to shake things out better than any beta or dev process ever could. With the open source OpenStack cloud platform, the most recent Folsom […]

From the ‘Open Source Language Rules’ files: When I first started building websites in the late 90’s, PHP was my tool of choice. Though many things have changed on the web since then, PHP’s popularity has not changed, it has grown. A new report from Netcraft puts the current tally as of January 2013 for […]

From the ‘Git This’ files: The Linux Foundation continues to amaze me as it never ceases to stop adding new members to its roster. This week, development firm Perforce joined the Linux Foundation which is of interest for a number of reasons. Perforce builds enterprise-grade Git version management software solutions via the Git Fusion solution. […]

VMware reported its fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2012 financial results on Monday. For the fourth quarter, VMware reported revenue of $1.29 billion, for a 22 percent year-over-year gain. VMware’s full year revenues also rose by 22 percent, coming in at $4.61 billion. Net Income for the fourth quarter was reported at $206 million […]

In the world of BYOD, it’s important to have common policies across all types of access. That’s the world that Cisco is aiming to enable with its growing suite of unified access solution, converging the capabilities and policies of both wired and wireless networking technologies. That portfolio is advancing this week with a number of […]

The lastest Akamai State of the Internet report is now out providing insight into broadband speeds and adoption. For the third quarter of 2012, the Global Average Peak connection speed was reported at 15.9 Mbps, which is a 36 % year-over-year gain. On a sequential basis, average peak connection speeds actually declined by 1.4 percent […]

At its core, Serviceguard is clustering software for high availability (HA) and disaster recovery. It’s a software solution that HP supports with professional services. “We’re seeing an increasing demand for critical application workloads on Linux,” Kate O’Neill, Director, Global Product Marketing and Programs, Business Critical Systems, at HP, told ServerWatch. “Customers are looking for HP […]

In a call made publicly available by Oracle, the leaders of the Java development group took up the issue of what’s wrong with Java today. “We have to fix Java, and we have been doing that,” Oracle Java security lead Milton Smith said during the call. Smith highlighted the new security slider that debuted in […]