Sean Michael Kerner

The Open Compute Project today announced a new Open Rack standard that will change the interior server width to 21 inches in a bid to improve server density for hyperscale computing data centers. The announcement came during the Open Compute Summit in Texas today where the Open Compute Project (OCP) celebrated its first anniversary. OCP […]

For the last 65 years, the Educational Testing Service (ETS) has been helping to perform large scale educational assessments like the SAT and GRE. ETS now does over 50 million assessments a year globally, all supported by a backend IT infrastructure. It’s an infrastructure that is now, in part, headed to the cloud in an […]

The question of where attack traffic comes from is one that has a different answer depending on when the question is asked. For the fourth quarter of 2011, China topped Akamai’s list of the top originating countries for attack traffic. China was responsible for 13 percent of total attack traffic overall, an increase from 8.6 […]

From the ‘Open Source Bovine Addiction’ files: How do you follow-up a name like Beefy Miracle? (the name of the upcoming Fedora 17 Linux release). With another Cow of course. The Fedora community has voted on the name for Fedora 18 and the winner is: Spherical Cow My personal favorite was Tandoori Chicken which actually […]

From the ‘Solaris and Windows? at NYSE? Ha!’ files: In New York’s Financial District, Linux is your MAMA. The Linux Foundation (that’s Greg Kroah-Hartman in the center and to his right is Jim Zemlin) rang the closing bell at the NYSE yesterday. The Linux Foundation is in NYC for their End User conference, which also […]

More than 232 million identities were exposed during 2011, with an average of 1.1 million identities stolen per data breach, according to Symantec’s latest Internet Security Threat Report. In 34 percent of cases, the data breaches were related to the loss or theft of a device — but those types of breaches tended to be […]

According to the fourth quarter 2011, State of the Internet report from Akamai, the global average connection speed to the Internet dropped to 2.3 megabits per second (Mbps), representing a 14 percent decline from the third quarter of 2011. While the average connection speed declined, the global average peak connection speed was relatively flat, coming […]

From the ‘Open Source PaaS’ files: Ever since Red Hat first announced their OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service project, I have asked Red Hat when it would be fully open source. This morning I got an email from Red Hat telling me that the day has finally come, almost a year after OpenShift itself first debuted. To be […]

The Internet is on the verge of its biggest change in years, with the pending adopting of perhaps hundreds of new Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). Those new gTLDs will not nessarily be a threat to VeriSign, the company that manages the .com and .net registries among others, in fact VeriSign is well positioned to […]

It has been a long, tough road for Alcatel-Lucent toward profitability. The company recorded its first yearly profit last quarter, though for its first quarter of 2012, the picture is not quite as rosy. For the quarter, Alcatel-Lucent reported revenue of 3.2 billion Euro, for a 12.3 percent year-over-year decline. Net Income was reported at […]

With an eye on corporate deployments of Linux desktops, Ubuntu 12.04 is also making it easier for enterprise users to access their non-Linux applications. VMware, Citrix and Microsoft Remote Desktop technologies are now all supported, providing Ubuntu 12.04 users with a way to access enterprise applications. George noted that, for example, if an enterprise migrated […]

“You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.” Apple CEO, Tim Cook on his company’s earnings call explaining why he’s not interested in a hybrid tablet notebook (Datamation).   “The simple measure I use is if you’re storing every scrap of raw […]