Sean Michael Kerner

Red Hat’s flagship offering is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL), which was first released back in November of 2010. Red Hat’s previous flagship release was Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 which is still being actively updated Ron Pacheco, Senior Director of Product Management at Red Hat explained to ServerWatch that the Red Hat Enterprise […]

The WAN Optimization marketplace will continue to include Cisco. That’s the official word from Cisco, in response to industry speculation that the networking giant was planning on exiting the business. At the core of Cisco’s WAN Optimization efforts is the WAAS (Wide Area Application Services) set of technologies which include both software and hardware solutions. […]

From the ‘We’re Not Tracking You’ Files: Mozilla has always been respectful of user privacy. But they also have to somehow get information from user’s browser to improve the product. Since at least Firefox 7 with something called Telemetry, Mozilla has had an opt-in mechanism for monitoring the performance of the open source browser on […]

From the ‘Update or be Pwned’ files: About a month before the recent HP mobile pwn2own event, I told the event organizers that is extremely likely that the mobile vulns they find will be WebKit related. As it turns it out I was right and I’m not surprised. The iPHone 4S was hacked by way […]

Microsoft rushed out a full patch for five separate vulnerabilities affecting its Internet Explorer browser, one of which was publicly disclosed while four were privately reported to Microsoft. “The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet Explorer,” Microsoft stated in its security bulletin on […]

One of the winners of HP’s prize money was for an exploit that leveraged NFC (near field communication) on a Samsung Galaxy Android smartphone. While the attack was delivered via NFC, it is important to note that the attack is not necessarily a vulnerability in NFC itself. The winning team of researchers, from MWR Labs, […]

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison used his company’s earning call as the platform to announce his company’s latest cloud offering. At Oracle’s upcoming OracleWorld event, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) will be added to Oracle’s Cloud services. “With that addition, Oracle will be providing its customers with all 3 tiers of cloud computing: Software as a […]

SUSE Manager 1.7 is based on the open source Spacewalk server management project. Spacewalk is an open source effort started by SUSE’s Linux rival Red Hat back in 2008. Spacewalk is also the open source version basis for Red Hat’s Network server management product. SUSE Manager has been based on Spacewalk since early 2011, as […]

Sandbox technology, which is used to isolate processes in an application in an effort to minimize risk to the underlying operating system, is proving useful in reducing vulnerabilities, according to IBM. Adobe embraced sandbox technology over the past year. Its Adobe Reader X program implements a process sandbox for PDF in an effort to reduce […]

“A lot of companies have a difficult time adapting to the next generation of technology and those with the most are also the ones with the most to lose.” Oracle CEO Larry Ellison commenting on his company’s move to the cloud (Datamation)   “The grand problem that we think we’re tackling is the trustworthiness of […]

From the ‘It’s not about the money’ files: Not all Open Source foundations are created equal. Over the last 15 years that I’ve been actively engaged in open source activities I’ve seen more than my fair share of open source foundations go bust. I’ve also seen a few do really well. Remember the OSDL? The […]

Cisco has announced its lowest latency switching platform ever with the Nexus 3548. The new Nexus is a 1RU 10 GbE platform that combines Cisco’s NX-OS operating system with new custom built silicon to deliver ultra-low latency. At the core of the Nexus 3548 is a new solution that Cisco calls, Algo Boost. Rajan Panchanathan, […]