Sean Michael Kerner

According to an IDC survey conducted this month, approximately half of the survey respondents indicated that they are planning on a private cloud strategy while the other half plan on rolling out a hybrid public and private cloud approach. “It’s going to be a very diverse and complex environment out there for a number of […]

Security will be a key focus for Juniper in 2013. Bob Muglia, Executive Vice President of Software Solutions Division at Juniper, commented during the earnings call that his company is still turning the corner on enterprise security sales. “Over the past 6 months, we engaged in many strategic security conversations with enterprise CSOs,” Muglia said. […]

From the ‘Open Source’ naming files: One of the interesting idiosyncrasies of open source projects can communities is the desire to choose release names – often following some kind of logical (alphabetical in some cases) order. The open source OpenStack cloud platform is no stranger to alphabetical releases. The first named release of OpenStack that […]

Cisco is selling off its Linksys home networking division to consumer networking vendor Belkin. “We’re very excited about this announcement,” said Chet Pipkin, CEO of Belkin. “Belkin’s ultimate goal is to be the global leader in the connected home and wireless networking space and this acquisition is an important step to realizing that vision.” The […]

Polycom reported its fourth quarter fiscal 2012 financial results on Wednesday. For the quarter, revenue was $353 million which is a 9 percent year-over-year decline. Moving forward, Polycom provided first-quarter fiscal 2013 guidance for revenue to be in the range of $330 million to $340 million. For 2013, Polycom’s plans include the availability of new […]

At the core of F5’s technology platforms is the TMOS operating system, which is due for a major refresh in 2013. The new update is codenamed Solar and according to McAdam, is now on track and is meeting the company’s development milestones. “The Solar release ships with approximately 76 new areas of functionality for TMOS […]

“The past few days have been the toughest, saddest, most frightening, and emotionally draining of my life.” Square CEO, Keith Rabois announcing his resignation after legal accusations (Keith Rabois) “We were relatively quiet on the topic in 2012, but in the background, we were hard at work on our strategy and plans” Kevin Johnson, CEO […]

Puppet Labs today announced it is receiving a $30 million strategic investment from VMware. Puppet Labs and VMware are hardly strangers. In May 2012, Puppet debuted the Razor open source effort along with EMC for bare metal provisioning. “VMware and EMC are not the same company, but they are pretty close,” Luke Kanies, CEO of […]

IBM reported its fourth quarter fiscal 2012 and full year results on Tuesday, showing growth in a number of high-value segments. For the full year, IBM’s revenue came in at $104.5 billion, which is a 2 percent year over year decline. Net Income for the year was reported at $16.6 billion, which is a 5 […]

Zettaset recently announced that it has raised $10 million in a new series B round of financing. The new round includes the participation of networking vendor Brocade as well as HighBar Partners and Epic Ventures. All told, to date Zettaset has now raised $13 million. What is Zettaset doing with all that money? Easing Hadoop […]

CloudForms already has sophisticated capabilities in terms of building and managing hybrid cloud infrastructure. CloudForms hit its 1.0 release in June of 2012 and was updated to version 1.1 in December. One of the key components of CloudForms is the Apache Deltacloud open source project that enables the integration of diverse compute capacities into logical […]

From the ‘If you leave the keys out in the open it’s your own fault’ files: Github rolled out a new search tool today making it easier to not just discover new projects, but code within projects. Think Google Code search (when it was alive, but better). So the TL;dr version is – awesome power. […]