Sean Michael Kerner

Management of the .com Top Level Domain registry is going to remain with VeriSign. That’s the ICANN board level decision, coming out of the ICANN meeting in Prague this morning, which approved the renewal of VeriSign’s .com mastery. VeriSign’s agreement to manage .com was last renewed in 2006. The 2006 agreement had been set to […]

This past week, the four founders of ClamAV — Tomasz Kojm, Alberto Wu, Luca Gibelli, and Edwin Török — announced they were leaving Sourcefire. But the departures are not a sign that the 10-year-old ClamAV project is in trouble, according to Sourcefire executives. “The group was upfront about leaving and they explained that it was […]

Fadi Chehade will takeover as CEO of ICANN starting on October 1st; between now and then Akram Atallah will be the interim CEO. Atallah is currently also the Chief Operating Office of ICANN. Outgoing CEO Rod Beckstrom’s three year contract comes to an end as of July 1st. As to why ICANN selected a new […]

From the ‘Goodbye EXT4?’ files: For the last several years, I’ve been asking Red Hat when Btrfs would land in Red Hat powered Linux distributions. Now I know the answer. Tim Burke, Vice-President of Linux Engineering at Red Hat, told me that currently Btrfs is still considered to be a tech preview in the recently […]

For Red Hat’s first quarter fiscal 2013, revenue was $314.7 million, a 19 percent year-over-year gain. The bulk of that revenue came from Red Hat’s software subscriptions, which came in at $272.6 million, a 21 percent gain. Net Income was $35.7 million, or $0.19 per share, which is a gain over the $32.5 million reported […]

Bromium is a company founded by the team behind the open source Xen hypervisor. For much of the last year, they have said little about the actual technology, talking only about the promise. The promise is all about being able to deliver systems that are secure and trustworthy by design. It’s a promise that Bromium […]

“We’ve increased the number of CPUs that a virtual guest can support, from the previous limit of 64 up to a new limit of 160,” Tim Burke, Vice-President of Linux Engineering at Red Hat, told InternetNews. “Scalability is important because we’re seeing more high-end compute-intensive workloads that are being run on virtualized guests.” On the […]

Pete Chadwick, senior product manager for cloud at SUSE Linux, explained to InternetNews that his company’s private cloud offering is based on the recent OpenStack Essex release. In addition to the core OpenStack components, SUSE has re-packaged the software to be easier to install as well as to better leverage SUSE’s package management and installation […]

Check Point is now rolling out a new line of hardware appliance called the DDoS Protector. DDoS attacks occur when an end point or server is flooded with an overwhelming number of requests from a large pool of distributed addresses. DDoS attacks have recently had a higher profile due to hacktivism attacks using the low […]

The enterprise IT market relies heavily on virtualization for workloads of all shapes and sizes, but what about small business? How does a small business operator take advantage of the same efficiencies and cost-savings that virtualization offers larger businesses? It’s a challenge that HP is attempting to address with a series of SMB-focused efforts including […]

SAP doesn’t run a plain vanilla version of SLES, but rather uses a special version called SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications. SUSE has updated that platform with a new release that brings the platform up to the same service pack level as the rest of SUSE’s customer base. SLES SP2 was first released […]

Moonshot is all about engineering a new class of server architecture that delivers scale-out compute power while using less electrical power than traditional server infrastructure. The first Moonshot server debuted as the Redstone Server and was powered by ARM Cortex processors from Calxeda. The new generation is now being called Gemini, and the initial launch […]