Sean Michael Kerner

Making sense of all the data that various tools collect is important if an enterprise wants to truly understand its risks. Ed Bellis knows this better than anyone after serving as the CISO of travel website Orbitz. “We had a bunch of different tools doing assessments, including network, dynamic and static application scanning,” Bellis told […]

From the ‘flag’ day files: Thirty years ago, something that we could never do today in the networking world, changed our world. On January 1st 1983, the ‘old’ Internet (aka ARPANET) shut down connectivity to all hosts running the NCP protocol. That’s right, a total shutoff, a ‘flag’ day where one service just ended. NCP […]

Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind the Ubuntu Linux operating system,this week announced Ubuntu for Phones. “This is a hotly contested segment and we’re very mindful of the caliber, scale and capacity of some of the incumbents in the phone market,” Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu said in a press briefing. “But we think our […]

Verisign reports that there were 246 million domains registered across all TLDs in the third quarter of 2012, which is a 12 percent year-over-year increase. While .com holds down the top spot in terms of total number of domain registrations, the base of ccTLDs is actually growing faster. During the third quarter of 2012, ccTLD […]

From the ‘Crystal Ball’ files: 2013 is now here and it is set to be yet another dominant year for open source technology and development. The two leading trends in IT during 2012, namely mobile and the cloud, were both being led by open source and will continue in 2013. On the mobile front, while […]

From the ‘Open Source Browser Goodness’ files: 2012 was one of the busiest year’s ever for the Mozilla’s Firefox project. This is the first full year for Mozilla’s rapid release cycle which debuted in 2011. I have to admit that last year I was among those that didn’t think that the new cycle would work, […]

From Linux 3.2 in January, to the 3.7 release earlier this month, 2012 was another busy year for Linux kernel developers. Linux 3.2 was the first kernel of 2012 and was released in early January. Linux 3.2 was another big release for the Ext4 filesystem, with filesystem blocks grow to up to 1 MB in […]

Red Hat announced the acquisition of ManageIQ last week in a deal valued at $104 million. ManageIQ will brings new cloud operations management technology to Red Hat. Bryan Che, general manager of the Cloud Business Unit at Red Hat told Datamation that the addition of ManageIQ is all about bringing operational management to the cloud. […]

Monitoring and troubleshooting networks is a task that is becoming increasingly difficult as speed, bandwidth and new protocols continue to emerge. In an effort to stay ahead of the curve, Ixia has released its IxNetwork 7 solution providing increased scalability. Usually when you give a person to scale more, you lose the ability to drill […]

In 2011, Microsoft released a total of 100 security updates. In contrast, for 2012 Microsoft was able to reduce that number to 83. Microsoft’s vulnerability improvement in 2012 isn’t just about lowering the security bulletin count, according to Rapid7 CISO and Metasploit founder HD Moore. “It seems like the market for Windows vulnerabilities has burned […]

Red Hat reported third quarter fiscal 2013 revenues last week, with revenues rising 18 percent year-over-year to $344 million. Net income was reported at $34.8 million, or $0.18 per share. Red Hat is growing its business in no small part thanks to a loyal customer base. “I’m pleased to report that all of our top […]

“I want to be really clear: Instagram has no intention of selling your photos, and we never did. We don’t own your photos – you do.” Kevin Systrom co-founder, Instagram backpedaling after his firm introduced new terms of service (Instagram)    “We’re in batting practice, we haven’t even started the first inning.”  Red Hat CEO […]