Sean Michael Kerner

What ownCloud provides is an open source take on a Dropbox model where users can share and save files in a cloud environment. With ownCloud, the technology is all open source and it can be hosted anywhere. The ownCloud 4 release debuts a number of new features to further differentiate the technology from its competitors. […]

The 7950 XRS marks Alcatel-Lucent’s debut in the core router market and will compete against the Juniper T4000 and the Cisco CRS-3. The new top end 7950 XRS-40 is a two chassis system that provides 160 ports of 100 Gigabit Ethernet, delivering up to 32 Terabits per second of routing capacity. The 7950 XRS-20 is […]

In August of 2011, Google made an acquisition bid for Motorola Mobility valued at $12.5 billion. Now eight months later, after shareholder and regulatory approvals, that acquisition bid is a done deal. Google CEO, Larry Page formally announced that his company closed the Motorola deal on Tuesday morning, in the biggest acquisition ever completed by […]

Big Switch was founded by Guido Appenzeller and Kyle Forster, in an effort to help move OpenFlow forward. In an interview with InternetNews.com, Forster detailed how far forward his company has moved the ball over the last year as SDN enters the networking mainstream. As OpenFlow and the Floodlight controller are open source, there is […]

Linux 3.4 follows the Linux 3.3 release by two months and is now officially “stable” after Linux creator Linus Torvalds pushed out seven release candidates. “I think the 3.4 release cycle as a whole has been fairly calm,” Torvalds wrote in his release announcement. “Sure, I always wish for the -rc’s to calm down more […]

Junosphere first debuted in October of 2011, delivering a cloud based service that enables networking professionals to test different deployment models without the need for physical hardware. MSRP for Junosphere starts at $5.00 per day per virtual machine (VM). Judy Beningson, vice president and general manager, Virtual Junos Business Unit, at Juniper Networks told Enterprise […]

Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) reported first quarter fiscal 2013 financial results late Thursday that paint a rosy picture for company. Revenue was reported at $695 million, for a 38 percent year-over-year gain. Looking forward, the strong quarterly results have given Salesforce the confidence to raise its full year guidance for the year ahead. “After becoming the first […]

“Zuckerberg doesn’t think about his wealth.” David Kirkpatrick, author of ‘The Facebook Effect,” commenting about the Facebok IPO (Bloomberg)   “The Internet is a big multi-tenant network.” John Engates, CTO of Rackspace taking aim at the myth that a multi-tenant public cloud is not secure (eSecurityPlanet)   “I wish we had more management for virtualization […]

In 2007, XenSource was leading the commercial push for the open source Xen Hypervisor. XenSource was acquired by Citrix for $500 million that year, bringing in some of the leaders of the Xen community, including Simon Crosby who served as the CTO of XenSource. In 2011, Crosby left Citrix to start something new -– a […]

OpenFlow 1.3.0 introduces new features that enable network administrators to have more control over their network deployments. The new specification is also important as it is likely to become the stable base upon which future commercial implementations for OpenFlow will be built. Dan Pitt, executive chairman of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) told Enterprise Networking […]

From the ‘I told you so’ files: When Apache OpenOffice 3.4 was released last week — the first OpenOffice release under Apache – I *guessed* that it was likely a better fit for Windows and Mac users than for Linux users. As it turns out, after a week of availability, that’s exactly the case. The […]

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) isn’t just media hype anymore, it’s a reality in U.S. enterprises today. A new Cisco study of 600 IT professionals found that 95 percent of organizations now permit employee owned devices in their environments. While BYOD may add some additional complexity to a network in terms of security policy, 76 […]