Sean Michael Kerner

Avaya announced new virtualization options for Aura last week, extending the UC system beyond the confines of physical hardware appliances. Aura is now available in the VMware-ready OVA format and can run on VMware’s vSphere 5.0 virtualization platform. Tac Berry, product marketing manager, Collaboration Platforms at Avaya explained to EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet that his company is now […]

A key part of Cisco’s innovation path revolves around the company’s Cisco ONE effort. Cisco ONE was first announced in June of this year as broad company initiative to provide network programmability and SDN across the Cisco product portfolio. David Ward, CTO of Engineering and Chief Architect at Cisco noted that in his view there […]

From the ‘Don’t Mess with RMS’ files: Richard Stallman (RMS),the Father of Free Software doesn’t like Ubuntu Linux. Stallman posted a scathing diatribe against Ubuntu on Friday. “If you ever recommend or redistribute GNU/Linux, please remove Ubuntu from the distros you recommend or redistribute,” Stallman wrote. “In your install fests, in your Software Freedom Day […]

“Standards are a means to an end and not the end” David Ward, CTO of Engineering and Chief Architect at Cisco commenting on Cisco’s approach to Software Defined Networking (EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet)   “We knew going in that security was going to be something that was top of mind”  Dan Hauenstein, manager of Academic Initiative Strategy, IBM […]

According to a new 2012 trends reportfrom IBM, security tops the list of reasons why many organizations aren’t yet adopting new leading edge technologies. For the cloud, 56 percent of IBM’s survey respondents identified security as the top barrier. The number rises for mobile, with 61 percent tapping security as a key hurdle. Enterprises seem […]

Emulex announced this week a bid to acquire Network Performance Management vendor Endace Emulex’s offer is valued at approximately $130 million and still requires Endace shareholder approval. Jim McCluney, CEO Emulex noted during a conference call to discuss the deal that there are a lot of reasons why he is interested in Endace. “We’re acquiring […]

Citrix is acquiring Mobile Device Management vendor Zenprise. Financial terms of the deal have not yet been publicly disclosed. The two companies have a shared vision to enable people to work and play from anywhere. Amit Pandey, CEO of Zenprise, said during that the call that it is clear that the BYOD trend is here […]

The Eurograbber Trojan infects users by a variety of different means, including malicious links and drive-by JavaScript download script injection. When an infected user goes to a bank website, the Trojan injects code into the session that alerts the user to follow or click a specific link. “The bank customer has some level of comfort […]

Aruba this week announced its 7200 Series Mobility Controllers, which feature the company’s new AppRF technology. The goal of AppRF is to deliver application visibility that enables optimized application delivery and control over wireless networks. From a hardware perspective, scale is another key attribute of the 7200 series. The new Aruba controllers scale up to […]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.1 (RHEV 3.1) is becoming generally available this wek, providing a series of updates that help to narrow the gap with VMware’s virtualization platform. RHEV 3.1 is the second major release of Red Hat’s virtualization platform this year, following RHEV 3.0, which debuted in January. Chuck Dubuque, senior manager, Product Marketing […]

From the ‘I’m a user’ files: In the spirit of full disclosure, I have used and recommended Google Apps to hundreds of organizations over the years. In most cases, the people I help out are small groups and Google Apps Free was a great place to start. No more. With no warning whatsoever, Google is […]

From the ‘Is it really a DoS’? We’ve all been to plenty of tech conferences where connectivity is less than optimal. Thankfully that has become less of an issue in recent years, even as wireless speeds have grown. That’s why news coming out of the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) today really sounded strange […]