Sean Michael Kerner

HP’s CloudSystem is now being expanded such that burstable cloud demand can be delivered via Amazon, Saavis or HP’s own cloud services infrastructure. With CloudSystem, enterprises can manage demand for their workloads and move them to public or private cloud infrastructure as needed. The new HP CloudSystem Matrix software is the orchestration layer, providing a […]

As World IPv6 Launch Day dawns on June 6th, IPv6 services will be enabled on thousands of sites around the world and left on. At the core of all those sites and sitting at the heart of the Internet’s core infrastructure are 13 root DNS servers. VeriSign is tasked with operating the key A and […]

Firefox 13 provides features that users of other browser platforms have seen for years. Most notably in the new Mozilla release there is a New Tab page. Instead of starting with a blank page for a tab, Mozilla is now copying functionality present in Opera, Chrome and Safari. All those browsers have features that provide […]

Today Cisco announced the the ASR 5500, the first new Cisco platform based on technology that Cisco got with its acquisition of Starent for $2.9 Billion in 2009. Following that acquisition Cisco rebrandedStarent’s mobile gateway as the ASR500 in early 2010. With the new ASR 5500, Cisco is providing a 10x improvement in performance and […]

At HP’s Discover conference in Las Vegas today the company announced that StoreOnce can do data recovery at rate of up to 40 Terabytes an hour. Performance is also getting a boost from new deduplication capabilities via improved software. Craig Nunes, Vice President, Marketing at HP Storage, explained to InternetNews.com that the new performance benchmarks […]

A week ago, the Flamer virus was revealed, but there were precious few details on how it may have infected victims. Now thanks to a Sunday disclosure from Microsoft, we know at least one potential vector. An unauthorized digital certificate signed by Microsoft may well have enabled Flamer code to be installed on end user […]

Salesforce.com this week officially announced its intention to acquire Buddy Media in a cash and stock deal valued at $689 million. The deal will include $467 million in cash, $184 million in stock as well as $38 million in vested Salesforce options. The deal is set to close in the Salesforce’s fiscal third quarter. During […]

From the ‘Game On’ files: One of the thing that some find lacking on the Linux desktop today is the availability of good games. You know stuff like Star Wars: The Old Republic or Diablo III. Personally, (try to) run those via WINE, but that’s not an ideal solution. The right solution is native games […]

The Gluster open source distributed filesystem is out with version 3.3 after a long development cycle. Gluster 3.3 unifies file and object storage and provide a Hadoop HDFS compatible API for Big Data Storage. GlusterFS 3.3 was originally expected to be released by the end of 2011. John Mark Walker, Community Leader for Gluster.org explained […]

The traditional way that IT security defense is deployed is as a protective measure that simply prevents an attacker from doing something they shouldn’t be allowed to do. The approach taken by Juniper Networks’ Mykonos software is somewhat different. Instead of simply preventing attackers from getting what they what, Mykonos aims to trap attacks in […]

The World IPv6 Launch is set for this week on June 6th. On that day, website operators around the world will switch on IPv6 connectivity and keep it on. The event is a follow up to World IPv6 Day in 2011 in which over 300 websites switched on IPv6 for the day to see what […]

“We’ve seen an increase in the past year or so in the percentage of traffic to the DNS root servers carried over IPv6 from somewhere around one percent to between three and four percent.” Burt Kaliski, CTO of VeriSign commenting on the growth of IPv6 over the last year (EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet)    “Contrary to Oracle, copyright […]