Sean Michael Kerner

Among the major enhancements to ownCloud 4.5 is support for mounting third party storage. That means that an ownCloud deployment can potentially manage its own storage as well as leverage other online storage sources such as Dropbox, Google Drive or Amazon S3. Access to the third party storage is delivered securely by different means depending […]

Juniper is updating its MX edge router family with two new large scale hardware platforms and new virtualization software capabilities. The JunosV App engine further enhances the MX routers with a Linux powered KVM virtual hypervisor. Marcellin noted that Juniper is using CentOS as the Linux base. CentOS is a clone of Red Hat Enterprise […]

From the ‘Flock to This’ files: Firefox 16.01 (updated today) is out the door and that means Firefox 17 is now in Beta (those trains move fast!). This release like the the last half dozen before it – adds new developer goodness – but this time it’s more sociable than just CSS3 support. Firefox 17 […]

SAP HANA runs on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and is a core component of SAP’s overall application delivery approach. It’s an approach that the big server vendors want to enhance with their own respective hardware offerings. Ben Eiref, senior manager, marketing and product management at Cisco, told InternetNews he sees HANA typically used for analytics […]

The vCloud Automation Center 5.1 release that is now being added to the vCloud Suite. Mahesh Kumar, Director of Product Marketing at VMware, explained to InternetNews that the Automation Center is built on tech acquired from DynamicOps in July of this year. The DynamicOps technology has been enhanced with VMware’s vCloud Director and Orchestration tools […]

From the ‘Aquire, then Open’ files: Red Hat today revealed its plans for integrating a pair of recent acquisitions into its JBoss portfolio. FuseSource and Polymita were both acquired by Red Hat in recent months and now we’re finally finding out what the plans are for those two companies. The TLDR version of the press […]

Microsoft releases seven bulletins addressing 20 security issues in Windows, SQL Server and Office. Only one of the October Patch Tuesday bulletins carries a Critical rating this month. MS12-064 details a pair of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word 2003, 2007 and 2010 that could potentially lead to remote code execution. Microsoft describes one of the vulnerabilities […]

Akamai’s network already optimizes traffic over what the regular public Internet delivery system provides. The idea with Aqua Ion is to go deeper in an effort to provide the best user experience across any device, application or network situation. “What we’re introducing with Aqua Ion is a layer of optimization so when we are delivering […]

Concerns of national security have now led the U.S. Government to take an extraordinary move and specifically bar Chinese networking vendors Huawei and ZTE from U.S. government networks. In the final analysis, the report concluded that,”risks associated with Huawei’s and ZTE’s provision of equipment to U.S. critical infrastructure could undermine core U.S. national-security interests.” As […]

This week, Polycom is rolling out an extensive platform and product update. At the top of the list is the new RealPresence CloudAXIS suite. The CloudAXIS suite is an integration platform that is build on top of Polycom’s RealPresence technology. CloudAXIS enables Skype, Facebook and GoogleTalk conversations and users “What is unique is that we’re […]

The new HP-sponsored 2012 Cost of Cyber Crime report conducted by the Ponemon Institute examined some 56 companies across industry verticals to get a picture of the impact and costs of cybercrime. It found the average annualized cost of cyber crime was $8.9 million, a 6 percent increase over the figure reported for 2011. More […]

From the ‘Open Source PaaS’ files: I’m a PHP guy (yeaah that’s right) and I’m also a Red Hat (Linux) user, so when those two technologies get together – I’m plenty interested. Red Hat is now partnering with commercial PHP vendor Zend on bringing PHP to the OpenShift PaaS. OpenShift was first announced back in […]