Sean Michael Kerner

The worldwide server market is in a state of revenue decline, according to a pair of reports out this week from analyst firms IDC and Gartner. Gartner reported that for the first quarter of 2012, global server revenues declined by 1.8 percent on a year-over-year basis to $12.4 billion. IDC reported a steeper decline of […]

From the ‘Strange Bedfellows’ files: We’ve known for some time that Microsoft has been pushing hardware vendors for Secure UEFI as part of Windows 8. The tl;dr version of UEFI is that it’s secure encryption on the physical hardware at the pre-boot layer. Basically in order to boot the hardware will have to have a […]

Verizon’s Terremark data center division has been busy this month growing its global data center footprint to deal with increased demand for cloud services. Terremark has expanded its London, UK data center as well as its Denver, Colo. location with new cloud nodes “As customer demand dictates, we launch additional capacity of our enterprise-class cloud […]

From the ‘Legal Pariah’ files: The modern world of software development relies on APIs in order to interact. APIs are the glue that hold and integrate things together and are as essential as oxygen and water. In its battle against Google over Android, Oracle tried to copyright Java APIs. If Oracle had won, software development […]

From the ‘Linux = $$’ files: IDC is out with its first quarter 2012 global server stats study and the numbers look good for Linux. While overall global server revenues were down, Linux server revenues were up. According to IDC, Linux servers generated $2.4 billion in revenue for vendors in the first quarter of 2012. […]

Cisco’s latest Visual Networking Index (VNI) forecast looks at the period of 2011-2016 and is based on data collected from service providers and analysts. The new forecast is predicting that in 2016 the total volume of Internet traffic will be 1.3 zettabytes (ZB). Just to put that into perspective somewhat, one zettabyte is equal to […]

Chrome OS first debuted in 2009 as an network based operating system that is tightly coupled with Google’s online services. With Chrome OS, users need to always be connected to the Internet and access application by way of the Chrome browser that is the cornerstone of the operating system. In 2011, Google expanded the vision […]

The Red Hat sponsored Fedora Linux community this week released its beefiest distribution effort yet in Fedora 17, codenamed “The Beefy Miracle. The inclusion of the OpenStack Essex open source cloud platform is another key inclusion in Fedora 17. OpenStack Essex was first released as an upstream project in April. The Essex release is a […]

While many Americans enjoyed a long holiday weekend, those in the security research community weren’t as fortunate as a new malware attack known as Flame/Flamer/Skywiper became known. The attack is a complex one that is significantly more complex then either Stuxnet or Duqu and it appears to be targeting the same part of the world, […]

From the ‘Sacred Cows’ files: For the most part, Fedora Linux releases have had names that weren’t particularly controversial. For instance, Fedora 16 was named Verne and the default desktop wallpaper had a submarine type theme (an hommage to 20,000 Leagues under the Sea). With Fedora 17, which was officially released on Tuesday the codename […]

IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Networks Tracker reported that for the first quarter of 2012 the global Ethernet switch market hit $5.1 billion in revenue, a 7.4 percent gain on a year over year (YOY) basis. In contrast, the global router market only grew by 2.8 percent. One of the bright spots for the switch market […]

The Open Data Protocol (OData) is used today by Microsoft as a way to query and update web data. It’s a protocol that could soon find much broader use as it heads toward standardization at the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). One of the groups that is backing the OASIS standardization […]