Sean Michael Kerner

One area of Oracle’s business that has not been one of uniform growth is the hardware segment. During the fourth quarter, Oracle’s hardware systems products revenues were down 16 percent to $977 million. The decline is largely from the commodity x86 server business that Oracle inherited as part of its acquisition of Sun in 2010. […]

The market for PHP frameworks is now becoming more crowded with Lithium, CakePHP and Zend Framework all vying for developer interest. Woodworth explained to that the core developers of Lithium were leaders in the CakePHP community for several years. All that experience was used to build a new framework from the ground up to leverage […]

Riverbed acquired Zeus and Aptimize in July of 2011. Zeus had developed ADC technology while Aptimize built Web content optimization tech. In October of 2011, Riverbed issued its first release of technologies formerly owned by Zeus and Aptimize. The Zeus tech was renamed the Stingray Traffic Manager and Aptimizer was rebranded as Riverbed Aptimizer. Aptimizer […]

The TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers was released Monday morning, ranking the Linux-powered IBM Sequoia as the top computer, coming in at 16.32 petaflops per second. Sequoia is an IBM BlueGene/Q system powered by 1,572,864 compute cores and installed at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The same IBM BlueGene/Q system […]

From the ‘Improving Linux Desktop’ files: One of the reasons why I’ve personally long enjoyed using Red Hat Linux and now Fedora is because of ease of installation (mostly Anaconda). It’s an experience that is set to get even better in the upcoming Fedora 18 ‘Spherical Cow’ release later this year. One of the major […]

The Ruby on Rails framework and PHP language both issued security updates LAS week addressing multiple vulnerabilities. The two security flaws fixed in PHP 5.4.4 and PHP 5.3.14 are related to each other and could potentially enable an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The primary flaw, identified as CVE-2012-2143 is a security issue with the […]

NASA’s contribution to OpenStack came in the form of the core compute infrastructure that is a critical part of the overall platform. This week, Jeff Barr of Amazon’s Web Services, which is competitive with OpenStack, posted a blog with the title, “NASA Saves Nearly $1M Per Year By Using AWS.” The Amazon post was based […]

From the ‘Fennec Fail’ files: For the last four years, every time I’ve asked a Mozilla person if Firefox was going to come to Apple iOS, the answer has always been no. Apple’s own restrictive policies will not allow another rendering engine and that means that Mozilla’s core Gecko rendering engine is not an easy […]

“I hate to say this, but not everyone finds BGP and OSPF as exciting as I do.” David Ward, CTO and chief architect of the Service Provider division at Cisco, explaining his company’s new Software Defined Networking approach (EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet) “This is a historic day for the Internet and this is biggest opening of the domain […]

While Juniper is pushing QFabric as an interconnect solution for data centers, they also have an additional switching solution for logically managing multiple physical switches. Juniper’s Virtual Chassis technology which is deployed on its EX class switches, enables multiple physical switches to be managed as one logical switch. This week, Juniper expanded the capabilities of […]

Oracle has updated Java with Java SE Development Kit 6, Update 44 (JDK 6u33) providing 14 security fixes, 12 of which can be remotely exploitable without authentication. Of particular note with the Oracle June Java update is the fact that Apple is also updating Java at the same time. The importance of updating Java immediately […]

From the ‘Google’s New Company’ files: If you look at the list of new gTLD applicants, the name Charleston Road Registry is very prominent. The new gTLD nameswere revealed this week, and there are over 1,900 applications in total. The Charleston Road Registry applied for 101 new top level domains including .web, .tech, .search, .cloud […]