Sean Michael Kerner

Software alone isn’t enough to secure enterprise against modern threats. That’s the view of chip giant Intel, that is now in the process of embedding securing technology into its new third generation Intel Core vPro platform. The Intel vPro third generation now includes security enhancements to help protect against identity theft as well as tighter […]

In a conversation with InternetNews.com, Rackspace CTO John Engates explained that server hardware isn’t a differentiator for his company, even as they seek to support the Facebook-led Open Compute initiative. Engates noted that Rackspace is competing further up the stack than just server hardware, and it’s not necessarily a matter of having the best technology, […]

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) vendor Pano Logic has been in the market for the last several years with a ‘zero client’ hardware. The zero client provides a small footprint hardware device that is used to deliver a VDI experience. Now Pano Logic is expanding their client footprint with the Pano Virtual Client (PVC) as part […]

From the ‘Most Successful Open Source Foundation’ files: For many, the name Apache is synonymous with the most successful open source project of all time – the Apache HTTP Web Server. The Apache Web Server has dominated the web server landscape for the majority of the Internet Era, even as rivals (open source and otherwise) […]

In a webcast event Tuesday, Red Hat executives reminisced about that milestone event and offered a few predictions about the future of their server operating system platform. Now after 10 years of releases and innovations, Paul Cormier, Executive Vice-President of Red Hat, sees the most important event in the history of RHEL as being the […]

The cloud makes it easy to build out pools of compute resources. But how do you scale out applications in the same way? That’s the goal of VMware’s latest vFabric 5.1 release. The vFabric application development platform first debuted back in 2010 and has been evolving ever since. The vFabric 5.1 release now includes the […]

From the ‘I miss Mozilla Weave’ files: For those of you keeping score in the open source browser numbering acceleration, Google is now out with Chrome 19. As always, lots of security fixes, but what Google chose to highlight in their announcement blog post is a feature many of us have enjoyed for some time […]

Time and again, a common concern that is often reported about the cloud is that public clouds are insecure due the fact that they are multi-tenant. At the Interop conference last week InternetNews.com caught up Rackspace CTO John Engates to get his views on the cloud. According to Engates, the multi-tenant cloud security risk is […]

At last week’s Interop conference in Las Vegas, Software Defined Networking (SDN) was a dominant topic during keynotes and sessions alike. While many vendors were talking about the promise of SDN and the OpenFlow protocol, Matt Davey, Chief Network Architect at Indiana University is actually deploying the technology to help service the need of the […]

From the ‘Mozilla Isn’t a Linux Vendor’ files: While Mozilla is a leading light in the open source community, every so often I’m reminded that the same isn’t always true in the Linux community. There has been an ongoing thread over the course of the last week about Mozilla’s lack of initial support for the […]

VMware helped to lead the revolution that has transformed the data center server space with virtual nodes of compute server infrastructure. Now VMware wants to lead the way in virtualizing networking. It’s a movement that is aligned with the newly emerging trend of software defined networking (SDN) that enables programmable networks abstracting networking hardware. Allwyn […]

In a town built on the sorrows of gamblers, everyone is looking to make a buck in Las Vegas. At the Interop networking conference last week, researcher Chet Wisniewksi of Sophos, explained how hackers can make millions from unsuspecting and naïve users. Wisniewksi’s talk at Interop was all about explaining the economic ecosystem that drives […]