Sean Michael Kerner

In an in-depth interview with eSecurity Planet, Qualys CTO Wolfgang Kandek, detailed his views about the current state of the Web application security landscape. While Web application threats and attack vectors are for the most part well known, fixing problems isn’t always easy. The technology is there, the education is not there,” Kandek said. He […]

“We have taken a chips to bricks approach measuring both the bytes and the btu’s” Steve Hammond, NREL Computational Science Director, talking about new data center that could be the most efficient on Earth (EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet) “Facebook is still relatively young as far as its infrastructure goes.” Amir Michael, Facebook’s system engineering team lead explaining how […]

Amir Michael, Facebook’s system engineering team lead, told InfoStor that Open Vault is one of the most interesting projects within Open Compute today. “Open Vault is Open Compute for a storage platform,” Michael said. Open Vault is based on the concept of JBOD(Just a Bunch of Disks). The JBOD is then interfaced to Facebook’s Open […]

From the Happy 4th Birthday Chrome’ files: Four years ago, Google launched Chrome. At the time, I wrote a commentary piece that it wasn’t likely that Chrome would kill IE. As it turns out, I was (mostly) right. IE still exists, though it has its lowest share in years, thanks in no small part to […]

Steve Hammond, NREL Computational Science Director, told Enterprise Networking Planet that the goal of the new data center is to have a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.06, which is substantially better than the industry average of 1.91. “The compute resources will support the breadth of research at NREL with increased efficiency and lower cost […]

Among the key new features in the openSUSE 12.2 release is the Linux 3.4 kernel, which first debuted in May of this year. The most recent kernel release is now the 3.5 kernel, which Linus Torvalds released in July. Andreas Jaeger, program manager for openSUSE, noted that the 3.4 kernel allows the capping of CPU […]

From the ‘Open Source Upgrade or Else!’ files: Enterprise users were never really fans of Mozilla’s insanely rapid release cycle for the open source Firefox web browser. So, in order to help out enterprise users, Mozilla launched the ESR (Extended Supported Release) with Firefox 10. That ESR is still maintained with security updates as Mozilla […]

Over the course of the last two years, the open source ownCloud project has emerged as a leader in cloud storage. What ownCloud provides is an open source alternative to proprietary cloud storage systems like Dropbox and Box. With ownCloud, a user can setup cloud storage on their own server or a third party server. […]

Facebook isn’t just a massive web property, it’s also a massive server infrastructure consumer and builder. For over a year, Facebook has been open sourcing many of its server and data center designs under the auspices of the Open Compute Project. n an interview with ServerWatch, Amir Michael, Facebook’s system engineering team lead, detailed his […]

From the ‘But It’s Open Source?’ files: Back in 2010, Mozilla’s was all over the place promoting the open source browser vendor effort to sync Firefox on Apple iOS devices. I first wrote about Firefox Home in May of 2010, then again in July 2010 when the App officially debuted. Now, two years later, Mozilla […]

Oracle CIO Mark Sunday has a lot of users he needs to support and he’s using Linux to do it. The tech leader took the stage at the LinuxCon conference this morning to discuss how Oracle uses and develops Linux. “Linux is our platform of choice across a wide variety of services,” Sunday said. “It […]

Twitter’s infrastructure runs on open source technology using the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) and the Scala programming language.  Chris Aniszcyzyk, the open source manager at Twitter, noted that Twitter was first built with the open source Ruby on Rails framework, but ended up moving away from Rails for performance reasons. Twitter uses Git as its […]