Sean Michael Kerner

Late Friday, a California jury sided with Apple and found that Samsung violated multiple patents owned by Apple. Apple and Samsung have been embroiled in a bitter patent legal battle since 2011 with each side arguing patent infringement. From a Samsung product perspective, the jury found that multiple Samsung smartphone devices – including the Captivate, […]

From the ‘Open Source Conference Preview’ files: SAN DIEGO. The fourth annual LinuxCon conference is getting underway this week here in Sunny San Diego. Over the last four years, LinuxCon USA has emerged as one of the preeminent Linux events on Earth, bringing together the best and brightest in a weeklong Linux love-in. LinuxCon filled […]

According to IDC’s latest statistics, the global Ethernet switch market grew by 8.5 percent year-over-year to $5.5 billion in the second quarter of 2012. The big driver of growth on the enterprise switch side is 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE). IDC reported that 3 million 10 GbE ports shipped during the quarter, delivering 22.9 percent […]

Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce user conference is coming up in September, and there will be no shortage of new and enhanced product releases. Among the new releases will be Salesforce’s major new push into the human capital management (HCM) space. “At Dreamforce, we’re going to be announcing Work.com, which is our rebranding and redevelopment of Rypple,” […]

“When you look at our performance during the quarter, there were things that we did well, and there were things that we could have done better.” Meg Whitman, CEO of HP during her company’s dismal third quarter earning call (Datamation)    “Rather than competing in the marketplace, Apple is seeking a competitive edge in the […]

From the ‘Open Source Tweets’ files: The Linux Foundation is growing, again. The Foundation is set to announced that Twitter, Inktank and Servergy willl be joining the Linux organization. The formal announcement is set for next Tuesday, at the LinuxCon event. The inclusion of Twitter is a particularly interesting one. Twitter is no stranger to […]

The PowerConnect 8100 is intended for use in the core and aggregation layers of the network. Chassis include both 24 and 48 port models of 10 Gigabit Ethernet, as well as the ability to support 40 Gigabit Ethernet QSFP+ ports. William Choe, executive director, Campus, Branch and Mobility at Dell Networking, told EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet that the […]

HP reported its third quarter fiscal 2012 earnings late Wednesday, including a massive $8.9 billion dollar net earnings loss. For the quarter, HP reported net revenue of $29.7 billion, for a 5 percent year-over-year decline. HP’s decline is due to a number of factors, including a challenging macro-economic climate and a slowing PC business. Despite […]

Silver Peak is set to demo a new solution at the VMworld conference next week, as part of the Agility initiative. What the Agility demo will show is the integration of Silver Peak’s WAN optimization with VMware’s vCenter virtualization management console. With the integration, a VMware virtualization user can enable the WAN optimization of virtual […]

Dell reported second quarter fiscal 2012 earnings late Tuesday that showed a double-digit decline in consumer PC sales. For the quarter, Dell reported revenue of $14.5 billion, which is an 8 percent year-over-year decline. Net Income was reported at $732 million for a yearly decline of 18 percent, while Earnings per Share (EPS) came in […]

HP is pushing forward its Intel Itanium-powered NonStop server platform with a new entry-class set of NS2100 servers. “The NS2100 doesn’t replace any server, but extends the NonStop portfolio to more customers, and is targeted at financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, and healthcare industries, and emerging markets,” Mark Pollans, Worldwide NonStop Product Manager at HP, told […]

The modern world of work is about BYOD and pervasive mobile connectivity. To help enable the modern networking world, wireless vendor Aruba Networks is now updating its core Aruba OS operating system to further improve the survivability of pervasive mobile connectivity. Ozer Dondurmacioglu, product manager at Aruba told EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet that the new ArubaOS 6.1.3.4 is […]