Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Too Little, Too Late’ files: The first release of the ‘new’ Apache OpenOffice project is out today. Forgive me for my lack of excitement. Apache OpenOffice 3.4 is however a milestone as it does mark the successful transition of OpenOffice to Apache. It’s a process that began in June of last year. I […]

Getting proper visibility into IPv6 traffic flows however isn’t an easy task as traffic is often tunneled with IPv4 traffic as well in dual-stack deployments where traffic flows over both IPv4 and IPv6 address space. An updated solution from network visibility vendor WildPackets is aiming to solve that problem. Wild Packets new Omnipeek 6.8 release […]

The 40G mesh networking platform provides high speed low-latency connectivity at the center of the network. It’s all part of Alcatel-Lucent’s larger vision of application fluency and enabling networking for the cloud era. “The mesh is the fabric within each data center site that provides the super connectivity from Layer 2 to the core,” Cliff […]

LAS VEGAS. Every year, the networking world descends on Las Vegas for the annual Interop conference. It’s the place where new networking technologies debut and broad industry movement trends are exposed. For 2012, new General Manager Jennifer Jessup, is running the show as the Software Defined Networking (SDN) and BYOD revolutions are heralded from vendor […]

From the ‘Size Matters Not’ files: LAS VEGAS. Among the most hyped terms in IT today is Big Data. While there are those that might debate how large a data set need to be before it is Big Data, Forrester Analyst, Vanessa Alvarez is not among them. At the Interop conference today, Alvarez took the […]

The VMware vCloud Connector is a new tool that helps to orchestrate and administer the migration of VMs across different data centers and clouds. Integrating vCloud Connector with Riverbed’s Steelhead WAN optimization appliances goes a step further to accelerate VM migration traffic. “Now when an organization is moving hundreds or thousands of VMs from one […]

Ceph is now backed by Inktank, a commercial venture led by Sage Weil, founder of Ceph. The company had originally incorporated under the name Ceph Inc, but it decided to take a different route to help preserve the integrity of the open source project. “To name the company after the project gives the company […]

“Permitting Mr. Thompson and Ms. Hart to stay with the Company after apparently violating the Code of Ethics sends a message to all Yahoo! employees that a different set of rules applies at the top.” Yahoo shareholder Dan Loeb commenting on the revelation that Yahoo’s new CEO ‘padded his resume (AllThingsD)     “Lots of […]

Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) reported fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2012 earnings late Wednesday. While the fourth quarter results showed some revenue weakness, the overall results for the year shows positive trends. For the fourth quarter, Symantec reported revenue of $1.68 billion, which is flat on a year-over-year (YoY) basis. For the full year, revenue was […]

CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers) face a number of challenges, according to a new IBM study. From a high-level perspective, the respondents told IBM that they were concerned about external threats, with 69 percent rating it their number one or number two challenge. “This was more than internal threats, more than incorporating new technologies, and […]

From the ‘Does Sourceforge Matter Anymore?’ files: There was a time when I would go to Sourceforge first to find any open source project. That hasn’t been the case in years for me, as first Google Code and more recently GitHub have become the primary places for me (and many others) to find and host […]

Where is the intersection between the current BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend and the NAC trend of a few years ago? According to Juniper Networks, their new policy approach helps enterprises evolve NAC, (known in Juniper’s parlance as unified access control or UAC) to embrace the BYOD phenomenon. “We’ve now completed the integration, from […]