Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘OpenSUSE Lives!’ files: OpenSUSE is a Linux distribution in a period of transition. On Thursday morning the project announced a delay in the latest milestone build of OpenSUSE 12.2 and issued a call for a new development model. This got me thinking, what’s wrong with OpenSUSE’s current model? On the surface it looks […]

While many in the industry have been quick to embrace SDN, Cisco wasn’t among them. Today, that changed as Cisco formally announced a strategy that spans the range of Cisco’s vast switching and routing portfolio and is underpinned by the new Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) platform kit. Sashi Kiran senior director, Data Center/Virtualization and […]

VMware this week took the wraps off Project Serengeti, an open source effort that enables Hadoop to run on virtual infrastructure. Additionally, VMware is also contributing open source bits to the upstream Apache Hadoop project, to enable Hadoop to be more responsive and efficient when running on virtualization technologies. “Project Serengeti is about simplifying deployment […]

ICANN on Wednesday revealed a list of 1,900 new names that organizations around the world have applied for in a new Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) process. The ‘reveal’ event is not the formal admission of any of the names onto the Internet, but rather is the first formal identification from ICANN of all the […]

Among the critical bulletins in the Patch Tuesday update this month is the MS12-07 cumulative security update for Internet Explorer. That update fixes 13 vulnerabilities, including one first reported to Microsoft in March by security research firm VUPEN, at the Pwn2Own hacking challenge. Why did it take Microsoft three months to fix the VUPEN flaw? […]

Cisco is now also making a cloud based virtual router available, as well. Akkiraju explained that the Cloud Services Router (CSR) 1000v is essentially Cisco’s enterprise routing platform in the cloud. The idea is to enable enterprise users to connect directly into the cloud with the same level of security they have connecting from a […]

Dell is bringing together technologies from across its product portfolio, including servers, storage and networking gear and converging them into a single solution.   The Dell Converged Blade Data Center solution includes the new 12th generation Dell PowerEdge blade servers, Dell EqualLogic Blade Arrays and Dell Force10 MXL blade switching in single platform. Brian Payne, […]

From the ‘Table Memories’ files: Back in the old days, when I built sites with tables  (we didn’t have this fancy CSS stuff in the 90’s), I would commonly build flexible table layouts that would scale to a certain percentage of a screen size. In the table model, that was easy and we all did […]

At the top end of Apple’s mobile food chain is a new 15-inch MacBook Pro that for the first time will include the high resolution Retina display. The Retina display previously had only been available on the iPhone and new iPad. The new 15-inch MacBook Pro has also been redesigned to be a thinner form […]

Coverity’s core static analysis tools find common software flaws like null pointers and race conditionsthat can potentially lead to exploitation. The new web application security tool goes further, providing a white box fuzzer that can help developers find common web app vulnerabilities. “What the white box fuzzer does is it validates data sanitization routines and […]

From the ‘Learn Linux. Make $’ files: The Linux Foundation is launching a new Enterprise Linux Training program. The program is all about preparing IT pros in a vendor-neutral way for Enterprise Linux architecture deployments. Linux isn’t just for developers anymore, which is where the Linux Foundation’s focus had been until now. Now to be […]

From the ‘Oracle Open Source (?)’ files: Oracle is losing one of its key Linux developers. Chris Mason, leader of the Btrfs filesystem effort officially left Oracle on Friday. In his farewell note, Mason took an indirect shot at Oracle. Oracle has been a fantastic place to work, and I really appreciate their support for […]