Sean Michael Kerner

HP is one of the world’s largest IT vendor sand home to many security technologies and professionals. It’s no longer the home of Alan Kessler though. Kessler was once the President of HP’s Tipping Point division and when he left he was the VP, Worldwide Sales and Service for HP’s Enterprise Security Products division. Kessler […]

From the ‘Nope, Still Not PHP 6’ files: Work has now officially begun on PHP 5.5. This will be the first major update since PHP 5.4 debuted earlier this year. Work on major milestone releases has been painfully slow in recent years, so it’ll be interesting to see how fast (or slow) PHP 5.5 matures. […]

From the “Here We Go Again’ files: The open source FreeBSD project publicly revealed on Saturday November 17th, that an intrusion had been detected in their server infrastructure on Sunday November the 11th. Why the week delay? I don’t know. According to a FreeBSD email, the affected machines were taken offline for analysis as a […]

While BYOD is a known trend, its actual impact and adoption varies, depending on who you ask. According to a recent study from security vendor Blue Coat, IT staff and employees tend to view BYOD in different ways. While 71 percent of employees reported that they used their own devices to access corporate IT, IT […]

The ThreatCloud correlates data from Check Point users with third party sources of intelligence to help correlate potential risks and threats. While the Check Point already provides intelligence feeds to its network security gateway customer the managed security service goes a step above that. Avi Rembaum, Director of Consulting at Check Point, explained to EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet […]

“It’s humans, rather than just straight technology.” Avi Rembaum, Director of Consulting at Check Point, explained why his company’s new security services are different (EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet)   “I like our cards, I like how we’re positioned and we don’t miss market transitions.” Cisco CEO John Chambers during his company’s first quarter fiscal 2013 earnings call (InternetNews) […]

Cisco is announcing an advanced Wi-Fi location data analytics platform and partnerships with mobile chip vendor Qualcom as well as AT&T. All together, the platform enables content providers and venues to deliver customized location based experiences and offers to mobile users. On the silicon side, Qualcom is now embedding Cisco technology on its silicon to […]

Nebula is one of the leading contributors to the open source OpenStack cloud project. It’s a role and a responsibility they take very seriously. The need to contribute back to the core OpenStack project is important in Nebula CEO Chris Kemp’s view. He noted that if companies that are developing products or services based on […]

Networking giant Cisco announced today that it is acquiring privately held cloud software vendor Cloupia for $125 million. Cloupia develops infrastructure management software for automating data center infrastructure. The company’s core product is the Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller (CUIC), which is a vendor neutral management and provisioning tool for both virtual and physical infrastructures. The […]

The HP ProLiant SL4500 server platform can provide up to 240 Terabytes of Big Data capacity in a 4.3 U server chassis. The system can be scaled up to a nine chassis configuration delivering up to 2.16 Petabytes of capacity. Each chassis has 12 DIMM slots that can provide 192 GB of node memory. The […]

From the ‘I CAN HAZ LINUX?’ files: The voting is done and we now have a name for Fedora 19 Linux which will be out sometime in early 2013. The successor to Spherical Cow will be: Schrödinger’s Cat Beating out,  Higgs Boson, Tiddalik, Loch Ness Monster Newtonian Dynamics Martian Blueberries Parabolic Potassium and Cubical Calf Ok so […]

The Jaspersoft 5.0 release goes beyond the new interactivity options the company introduced in the 4.7 release that debuted in July. “We have replaced our charting engine with an HTML5 charting engine,” Mike Boyarski, Jaspersoft’s director of Product Marketing , told EnterpriseAppsToday. The charting engine can now deliver interactive views of OLAP data, whereas previous […]