Sean Michael Kerner

Cloud computing relies on the ability of networks to scale effectively. HP is now expanding its network scalability efforts in a series of new efforts announced today. The new HP Ethernet Virtual Interconnect (EVI) is a technology that enables up to eight different data centers located in different geographical locations to easily be interconnected. The […]

Microsoft is out with its monthly Patch Tuesday release, this time providing fixes for at least 26 vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities are grouped into five critical and four important bulletins, addressing flaws spread across the Microsoft software portfolio. At the top of the Patch Tuesday release list is a re-release of MS12-043 which affects Microsoft XML […]

The preview release is the first milestone on the path to what will become Red Hat’s Enterprise OpenStack commercially supported release at some point in 2013. OpenStack is one of the leading open source cloud platforms and has the support of major IT vendors including Dell, HP, IBM, Cisco, AT&T and Rackspace. Red Hat CTO, […]

While Zenoss Core has long been able to monitor multiple types of network and server infrastructure components, with the new release Windows monitoring gets easier. The Zenoss Core 4 release is now able to perform remote monitoring of Windows systems without the need for additional third-party agents. Floyd Strimling, Technical Evangelist and VP of Marketing […]

From the ‘Beefy Miracle’s Desert’ files: The clock is starting to tick down on the Fedora Linux release with the feature freeze now in place. As such, now is as good a time as any to take a look at some of the new features that are likely to land when Fedora 18 goes live […]

After more than three years of selloffs, the end of the Nortel bankruptcy saga is nearly in sight. Late Thursday, Nortel announced its second quarter fiscal 2012 financial results. The company also announced that as of the third quarter, it would no longer be reporting quarterly or yearly financial results. Though Nortel no longer has […]

“In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed” Matt Honan, Wired writer on how an epic fail at Apple and his own daisy chain of passwords led to his digital life being erased (Wired)   “The better bullshit detector you have, the better you’ll do.” Security luminary, Bruce Schneier detailing some […]

After three long weeks of trial, a jury decision came down this week in the Brocade vs. A10 Networks case. The dispute centered on alleged intellectual property and trade secret infringement by A10. The connection between A10 and Brocade is somewhat direct. A10 was founded in 2004 by Lee Chen, after leaving Foundry Networks, another […]

The First Quarter, 2012 State of the Internet report from content delivery network vendor Akamai is once again showing acceleration in Internet access speeds around the world. The Global average connection speed for the first quarter of 2012 hit 2.6 Mbps which is a 25 percent year over year gain, and a 14 percent gain […]

From the ‘Good News for Qt’ files: Nokia, the one time king of the mobile phone market, really seems to have no clue when it comes to open source. These are the same geniuses that killed MeeGo (and all its iterations) abandoning Linux in favor of Windows. Now they are also giving up on Qt. […]

Avaya is expanding its collaboration offerings this week with the release of Aura Conference 7.0. Avaya Aura Conferencing enables web and voice collaboration from multiple types of devices including desktops, notebooks, tablets and smartphones. Aura is complemented by Avaya’s Flare Experience App which is now available on the iPad tablet as well as Microsoft Windows […]

Security luminary Bruce Schneier knows a thing or two about encryption and cryptography. The author of multiple books on cryptography, Schneier is however somewhat apprehensive about encryption in the new cloud era. In an in-depth interview with eSecurityPlanet, Schenier explained his view on cloud encryption, which isn’t particularly positive. He also detailed some of his […]