Sean Michael Kerner

HP first tried its hand at integrated hardware and software appliances last year with the first iteration of AppSystem appliances. The company is now updating its AppSystem architecture with a new scale-out approach that enables enterprises to easily add capacity as needed. Up first are AppSystems for Vertica, Autonomy and Hadoop. Paul Miller, vice president, […]

WAN acceleration vendor SilverPeak is aiming to narrow the Jumbo sized gap with the latest version of its core VXOA software. Silver Peak’s Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) was first announced in July of 2011 as a way to deliver software based WAN acceleration capabilities. Rick Tinsley, president and CEO of Silver Peak explained to […]

Piston Cloud Computing is one of the leading companies in the Open Source OpenStack effort. Piston is now getting some new leadership of its own, appointing industry veteran Jim Morrisroe as CEO. Piston Cloud was founded by Joshua McKenty, one of the leaders of the open source Nebula platform at NASA, that became the core […]

OpenMAMA is an effort to build an open source implementation of the MAMA (Middleware Agnostic Messaging API) that financial services companies use for passing data across messaging applications. OpenMAMA was first announced in 2011. The OpenMAMA project includes big names in the financial services sector such as Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan and […]

VeriSign’s renewal of the .com registry comes a bit later than first expected, due to a review from U.S Department of Justice. VeriSign has been managing the .com domain registry since 1999 in a deal that was renewed in 2006 and was set to expire today. The extended renewal process was noted during VeriSign’s third […]

From the ‘Thank You Microsoft for *allowing* Linux on Windows 8 hardware?!’ files:   Few topics have been as controversial in the Linux community this year as the Secure Boot/UEFI issue. The Tl;dr version is that Secure Boot is enabled by default on all new Windows 8 certified hardware. That Secure Boot mechanism by default […]

Acquia, the lead commercial sponsor behind Drupal, this week announced its latest round of venture financing. The new E round, worth $30 million, will help the company grow its suite of services and its global footprint for delivering a full-featured CMS. Acquia has raised $68.5 million in funding since the company was created in 2008. […]

The third quarter of 2012 (3Q12) has not been a kind one to most server vendors. According to IDC, the worldwide server market had 3Q12 revenue of $12.2 billion for a 4.0 percent year-over-year decrease. In contrast, Gartner reported that the global server market declined by 2.8 percent. Not all sectors of the global server […]

“Believe you and me, I’ve hugged servers enough in my life and they do not hug you back…They hate you.”  Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon explaining his commandments for modern IT infrastructure (Datamation)   “It’s a lot of money but we’re on a big mission.” Drupal founder Dries Buytaert commenting on his company’s new funding […]

From the ‘Enhanced Porn Mode’ files: All the way back in 2008, Mozilla brought Private Mode (aka Porn Mode) to Firefox 3.1. Over the last four years, not a whole lot has changed in Firefox’s implementation of private mode, but that might change with Firefox 20 in 2013. Currently when a user enters Private Mode, […]

According to the 3Q12 Service Provider Routers and Switches report, from Infonetics Research, revenues for carrier routers and switch is also on the down swing. Infonetics reported that global service provider router and switch market came in at almost $3.4 billion for the third quarter of 2012, for a 5 percent year-over-year decline. In terms […]

Throughout its history, Mozilla has supported innovation on the web by investing in people and its own development. Today Mozilla is moving to the next stage in its evolution, formally investing in a mobile startup that could help to enable its nascent FirefoxOS platform. Mozilla is participating in a $25 million series C funding round […]