Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Location, Location, Location’ Files: In the most basic sense, programming code allocates specific locations in a program (or memory) that can be used for specific tasks. When code (malicious or otherwise) escapes those locations, trouble isn’t usually far behind. The new Firefox 16.0.2 update is really all about the problem of location, fixing […]

VeriSign has been managing the .com domain registry since 1999. It’s an agreement that has already been renewed once, back in 2006 and is set for renewal this year. While ICANN has already awarded the contract to VeriSign, the deal is now under review by the U.S Department of Justice. Jim Bidzos, executive chairman, president […]

Solaris 11.1 became generally available last week from Oracle, marking the first major update to the Unix platform in a year. A key attribute of the new release is how Oracle’s Solaris and application teams worked together to improve the system. “One of the big changes that has happened is the increased investment that Oracle […]

From the ‘Cloud Code editor’ files: Back in January of 2011, the Eclipse Foundation announced the development of Orion, a browser/cloud based IDE. At the time, Mike Milinkovich, exec director of the Eclipse Foundation told me that Orion is more than just Eclipse in a browser. It’s a view that he re-iterated today with the […]

In an exclusive interview with InternetNews, Simon Anderson, CEO of Dreamhost  explained why his firm has chosen to embrace the open source OpenStack cloud platform and how it all relates to the existing business of web hosting. Anderson said that Dreamhost was starting to get a lot of requests from customers to launch cloud services […]

Thanks in part to some help from Dell, Apache is now turning its attention to the ARM server architecture to complement efforts on x86 and other platforms. Dell has donated a Calxeda ARM-powered server that Dell is referring to as “Zinc” for use by Apache. Drew Schulke, product marketing manager for Dell DCS, told ServerWatch […]

For the fourth quarter of 2012, F5 reported revenue of $362.6 million which is a 15 percent year-over-year gain. All told for the full fiscal 2012 year, F5 reported revenue growth of 20 percent with revenues totaling $1.38 billion. Looking forward the company remains optimistic, providing first quarter fiscal 2013 guidance for revenue in the […]

Cloudera, one of the leading commercial sponsors of Hadoop, is now aiming to enable faster Big Data queries by introducing a new technology codenamed Impala. The goal with Impala is to enable rapid and interactive queries. Cloudera CEO Mike Olson said MapReduce was originally designed by consumer Internet companies to process large-scale, batch data workloads. […]

VMware reported third quarter fiscal 2012 earnings late Tuesday, showing continued growth at the virtualization vendor. Revenue was reported at $1.13 Billion, which is a 20 percent year-over-year gain. Net income for the third quarter was reported at $157 million, or $0.36 per diluted share. Looking ahead, VMware COO and interim CFO Carl Eschenbach provided […]

During Juniper Networks’ third quarter fiscal 2012 earning call, Juniper’s CEO revealed his company’s SDN strategy. Juniper’s SDN strategy comes as the company faces continued competitive and market pressures. For the quarter, Juniper reported revenue of $1.12 Billion up by 1 percent on a year-over-year basis. Net income was reported at $17 million, or $0.03 […]

From the ‘End of the Traditional Desktop’ files: Microsoft has a big launch event today in New York City for Windows 8. Surprisingly I got invited, but no I won’t be there. Linux users like myself however really should thank Microsoft though, Window 8 is truly a great gift. Unlike Windows 7, which provided Microsoft’s […]

Continuuity’s aim is to make the benefits of the Hadoop framework available to folks other than data scientists. The key, according to Papaioannou, is making it easier for enterprise application developers to build apps leveraging Hadoop. “We think the next wave in the Big Data market is going to be application development. So far, we’ve […]