Sean Michael Kerner

Overall for 2014, Infonetics has sized the global data center network equipment market at $11.2 billion in 2014 for an 8 percent year-over-year gain. Infonetics Research, now part of IHS Inc., is reporting that bare metal switches accounted for 11 percent of all data center ports shipped worldwide in 2014. By 2019, Infonetics is forecasting […]

At the Pwn2own 2015 event on March 18 and 19, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox were all exploited by security researchers Mozilla released Firefox 36.0.3 on March 20, with the intention of providing fixes for the security issues that were first disclosed at Pwn2own 2013.  Unfortunately however, Mozilla quickly discovered […]

The short duration DDoS attacks represented 96 percent of attacks against Corero’s customers in the fourth quarter of 2014. While the DDoS attacks were short in duration, Corero reported that its customers saw an average of 3.9 attacks per day. From an attack bandwidth perspective, 79 percent of the DDoS attacks Corero saw in the […]

From the ‘Don’t Abandon PHP Yet’ files: You can count me among those that have been seriously looking at Facebook’s HHVM as an alternative to running PHP (for PHP applications). My concern has been about speed, since simply put HHVM is smoking fast in comparison to PHP 5.5/5.6. But a new data set out today […]

Vapor has a new data center server system called the Vapor Chamber, which in some respects resembles the look of the new Apple Mac Pro. Instead of a single system like the Mac Pro, though, the Vapor Chamber fits six racks of servers. While the Mac Pro is Apple technology built with a variety of […]

More than seven in 10 respondents (71 percent) noted that their networks were breached in 2014, up from 62 percent in last year’s study. The number of organizations with multiple security breach incidents also rose, according to the report, which was written by CyberEdge Group and sponsored by Blue Coat Systems, Citrix Systems, NetIQ, PhishMe, […]

There is a patch that has landed in the Linux 4.0 kernel release that is intended to be a ‘Code of Conduct’ for Linux kernel developers. The challenge in my view, is that that there is no code or real conduct in the patch. Rather the patch is a comment for process. The code commit […]

In July of 2006, I first wrote about Google Code, as a new competitive alternative to SourceForge for open-source project hosting. Times sure have changed in the last 8.5 years and Google is now shutting Google Code down. The writing has been on the wall for nearly two years about Google Code’s fate, so the […]

The SAI specification was submitted to OCP this week, thanks to the efforts of Dell, Big Switch Networks, Mellanox and Microsoft. SAI is an abstraction layer for switches, that can enables a common API interface across network operating systems. OCP already has multiple specifications including the Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) which enables different vendor […]

From a technology perspective, the new SUSE OpenStack Cloud 5 release is based on the upstream OpenStack Juno milestone (http://www.eweek.com/cloud/openstack-juno-brings-big-data-to-the-cloud.html) that was first released on October 16, 2014. Among the new technologies that landed in OpenStack Juno is the Sahara Big Data processing project. The SUSE OpenStack Cloud 5 platform includes Sahara, and is also […]

The flaw, now identified as CVE-2014-8889, was found inside the Dropbox SDK (software development kit) for Android and could have potentially enabled an attacker to insert an arbitrary access token, to give the attacker access to user information. IBM built a proof-of-concept exploit that it calls “DroppedIn” to test the impact of the vulnerability. Using […]

Blue Coat is currently owned by Thoma Bravo, which acquired the vendor in a deal valued at $1.3 billion in December of 2011. As part of the Thoma Bravo acquisition, Blue Coat was taken private and stopped trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol BCSI. On March 10, Blue Coat announced  that it was being […]