Sean Michael Kerner

In addition to beefing up its switching portfolio, Brocade is providing new scale for its MLXe core router platform. The MLXe was first announcedin 2010 with support for up to 32 ports of 100 GbE and 256 ports of 10 GbE. Brocade is now announcing a new 10 GbE module that will triple the number […]

Sage Weil started the Ceph filesystem as a research project. Today that research project is a bona fide enterprise option for Big Data and cloud storage purposes. Ceph is now in the Linux kernel and Weil is the CEO of startup Inktank, which provides commercial support for Ceph. In an in-depth interview with InfoStor, Weil […]

GoDaddy, one of the world’s largest hosting and domain name providers, had a major outage on Monday. The outage lasted nearly six hours for some customers, taking domains, sites and email offline for thousands of users. A hacker who claims to be associated with hactivist group anonymous jumped on the outage, claiming that the GoDaddy […]

Microsoft is out with its September Patch Tuesday update, providing only two security advisories. The small number has some folks worried Microsoft may have missed some bugs. The low patch count is not unprecedented. According to Jason Miller, manager of Research and Development at VMware, the last time Microsoft released only two Patch Tuesday security […]

A core component of modern enterprise security is the IPS (Intrusion Prevention System). HP is now advancing its TippingPoint IPS portfolio with the new NX platform, which it says can deliver as much as 13 Gigabits per second of IPS inspection throughput. The purpose-built, modular platform enables administrators to plug in new ports or different […]

From the ‘Don’t Leave My Sandbox’ files: Google was a bit slow in the beginning getting its Chrome browser ready for Linux. That’s now changing as Google is now set to take advantage of an advanced Linux kernel feature that could well make Chrome on Linux more secure than any other OS. Chrome 23 dev-channel […]

From the ‘I want TachyonMonkey next’ files: For better or for worse, the modern web relies on JavaScript. That’s why JavaScript engines are critically important in modern web browsers. For years, browser vendors have competed on JavaScript benchmarks (originally just SunSpider) and apparently they will for years to come. The latest entrant is yet another […]

Riverbed is advancing its Whitewater cloud storage acceleration technology with a major new operating system update and new hardware. The new enhancements provide more scale and management capabilities to help organizations leverage the cloud for storage. Whitewater Operating System (WWOS) 2.0 is the first major version update since Riverbed first announced Whitewater back in November […]

The open source PostgreSQL 9.2 database is being officially released today, providing database administrators with new levels of scalability and performance. “This year for the first time thanks to HP, EnterpriseDB and the University of California at Berkeley, we’ve been able to test PostgreSQL on bigger machines,” Josh Berkus PostgreSQL core team member told DatabaseJournal. […]

How is Oracle now handling development of both Linux and Solaris? Is there any cross development happening? To answer those questions, ServerWatch conducted an interview with Wim Coekearts, Senior Vice President of Linux and Virtualization Engineering at Oracle. While there are some things that Linux can learn from Solaris and vice versa, for the most […]

From the ‘Now You Know’ files: We’ve all known for some time that Facebook’s infrastructure is for the most part running on Linux. What I didn’t know until very recently was which Linux distribution Facebook was using. I caught up with Amir Michael, Server system lead at Facebook the other week at LinuxCon and I […]

The OpenStack Foundation is almost officially alive. The open source group that will have oversight over the OpenStack cloud platform project was first announced nearly a year ago and is now ready to launch. The Board of the new Foundation had its first full meeting at the CloudOpen Summit in San Diego last week. In […]