Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Not All CTOs are Created Equal’ files: I’ve had the good fortune to talk to many CTOs as part of my day-to-day job as a tech journalist over the last decade here at InternetNews. One thing that I can say for certain is that the role of CTO is a varied one and […]

Both Oracle and Microsoft have patches out this week that will require immediate attention from millions of users and enterprise IT admins. In the case of the Oracle Java flaw, the issue was first publicly reported late Thursday and triggered a US CERT alert. The vulnerability in question enables unprivileged code to access restricted classes […]

Among the various step and mis-steps that may have led to Nortel’s downfall, were a series of financial and accounting errors that the company started facing as far back as 2000. The accounting errors had caused Nortel to restate financial statements for 2000, 2001, 2002 and the first and second quarters of 2003. As a […]

Networking vendor Brocade named industry veteran Lloyd Carney as its new CEO this week. Carney is succeeding current CEO Michael Klayko. Klayko has been CEO of Brocade since 2005 and has overseen a period of transformation at the networking vendor. Under Klayko’s leadership, Brocade transformed itself from being a pure play SAN vendor to become […]

Procera is paying $28.0 million Canadian for Vineyard, with $15.4 million in Procera stock and $12.6 million in cash. The deal is set to officially close today. Vineyard has taken an OEM approach to the market, providing its network application visibility to third party vendors including Riverbed, Blue Coat and Dell SonicWall. The Vineyard technology […]

While signature-based scanning has its shortcomings, it’s not a total waste. According to Roger Thompson, chief emerging threats researcher at ICSA Labs, an in-depth, layered approach to security should include signature-based scanners. “Every piece of Swiss cheese has lots of holes in it, but if you get enough pieces of cheese in place, you block […]

From the ‘Up Next, the Lackey Release’ files Security has long been a core competence and a serious focus for Mozilla but now the open source Foundation is taking it a step further. Mozilla is now building its own open source security testing framework called – Minion. Minion could one day become a core part […]

“Every piece of Swiss cheese has lots of holes in it, but if you get enough pieces of cheese in place, you block everything” Roger Thompson, chief emerging threats researcher at ICSA Labs, talking about the relevance of anti-virus signatures (eSecurityPlanet) “For the past five years, the world’s appetite for U.S. patents has been seemingly […]

Bask Iyer, CIO at Juniper Networks is at the center of all the major trends in IT and networking today, including SDN, delivering on the need for BYOD from employees as well as the demand for more cost-effective IT for the business. Iyer has been a professional CIO for the bulk of his career. Being […]

A new report issued today from IFI CLAIMS Patent Services reveals that there was a 13 percent gain in patents issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 2012, up to a record 253,155 utility patents. The report also identifies the Top-50 U.S.Patent Assignees for 2012 and the leader should come as no […]

Mirantis announced this week that it has raised $10 million in funding from a trio of investors including Dell Ventures, Intel Capital and WestSummit Capital. Boris Renski, co-founder and executive VP of Mirantis, told ServerWatch that his company has grown into one of the largest OpenStack systems integrators and has seen a lot of interest. […]

From the ‘Chrome Catch-up’ files: Some Firefox releases have more innovation in them than others. Firefox 19 is currently in beta and at this early point the feature list is likely to underwhelm some users. The only information that Mozilla listed for the public beta on its primary blogis that Firefox 19 will have a […]