Sean Michael Kerner

The Linux 3.6 release follows the Linux 3.5 release that debuted at the end of July and provided new stability improvement to Linux. “There haven’t been any huge new architectures or filesystems — it’s all ‘solid progress,’” Torvalds wrote in his release announcement. “That may not sound all that exciting, but the devil is in […]

From the ‘It’s Done When It’s Done’ files: Over two and a half years after the last major release of the open source Python language, Python 3.3 is now generally available. When Python 3.2came out back in March of 2011, most of the world’s Python developers were still running Python 2.x Today, there are still […]

The U.S. Government has put in place an IPv6 mandate that cam into affect on September 30th. That new mandate requires all government agencies to have their public facing websites and email services available over IPv6. The 2012 IPv6 mandate is not the first, or the last IPv6 transition mandate from the U.S. Government. Four […]

Adobe is in damage control mode as the company aims to contain the risk from a compromised  code signing certificate. The compromise is forcing the company to revoke the certificate. “Adobe is aware at this time of two malicious utilities from a single source that appeared to be digitally signed using a valid Adobe code-signing […]

From the ‘Forks That Work’ files: Some forks die off quickly. Other linger and a precious few actually prosper and excel beyond their origins. I personally would put the LibreOffice project and its masters in the Document Foundation in the latter category. The Document Foundation is officially celebrating its second anniversary today – hard to […]

“Frankly, to be blunt, no CIO I know of cares about Linux, right? It’s so far down in the stack. Yes, they know they use it, and they know it helps them save money, but that’s not what makes it strategic.” Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst during his company’s recent earnings call (Datamation) “We’re not […]

Folsom is the second OpenStack release in 2012, following the Essex release, which debuted in February. Folsom is also the first release of OpenStack made under the auspices of the newly minted OpenStack Foundation. The OpenStack Foundation now has the support of some of the largest IT companies in the world, including: IBM, Dell, HP, […]

HP is now rolling out its first four-socket Gen8 servers, with the promise that they will help to accelerate the move of more enterprise computing workloads to virtualization. The new systems include the HP ProLiant BL660c blade and the DL560 rack mounted server. “This is a new set of dense four-socket offerings that are really […]

This week Silver Peak launched its Velocity initiative in an effort to make it easier and faster for storage replication users to benefit from WAN optimization. Silver Peak Velocity initially is being targeted at NetApp SnapMirror users, though other replication systems will be supported in future releases. “We have had a strong track record of […]

While Red Hat has been in the middleware business with JBoss for some time, it is still a new player in the storage market. Red Hat acquired Gluster in October of 2011 for $136 million and launched the latest commercial Red Hat version in June. Whitehurst commented that the storage market looks a lot like […]

The newly minted SDN Testing Consortium backed by InCNTRE(The Indiana Center for Network Translational Research and Education) is now leading an effort to accelerate SDN testing and interoperability. Among InCNTRE’s partners is testing vendor Ixia, which is also helping to lead the Open Networking Foundation’s testing and interoperability working group. Indiana University has emerged in […]

Google turns 14 today. Yeaah, I know it really doesn’t seem all that long ago when Google was the ‘new kid’ on the block and we all used AltaVista (or at least I did…). Like millions of others I first noticed Google because of its use by Yahoo. The bulky Yahoo portal page of 14 […]