Sean Michael Kerner

The name SAP has been synonymous with enterprise applications for decades. Now SAP executives want their company to be synonymous with databases too. SAP today announced a series of initiatives that will further enable its database efforts, including the in-memory HANA and Sybase database technologies. At the core of SAP’s HANA database push is the […]

All told, the April Patch Tuesday update delivers six bulletins — four of which are rated as critical, including MS12-027. MS12-027 is a critical vulnerability in Windows Common Controls. Qualys CTO Wolfgang Kandek explained to InternetNews.com that MS12-027 affects MSCOMCTL.OCX, which provides a number of common controls including graphics, buttons, etc. “Many programs use it […]

The partnership will see MongoDB certified for enterprise use on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 as well as providing tools and support for joint customers. Mike Evans, VP of Business Development at Red Hat told InternetNews.com that there is now a move towards a new era of apps with mobile and cloud as […]

Red Hat is advancing its storage platform development with Monday’s beta release of Red Hat Storage 2.0. The new Red Hat Storage 2.0 appliance is based on the GlusterFS 3.3 release. The system will also provide components from the open source OpenStack cloud effort to enable unified file and object access. “GlusterFS already allows users […]

AOL announced yesterday that it is selling over 800 patents to Microsoft for the tidy sum of $1.056 billion in cash. Microsoft emerged the winner, after a competitive bidding process. AOL has not publicly disclosed which other firms participated in the bidding process. The patent sale is expected for formally close by the end of […]

In 2007, networking vendor Palo Alto released their first next generation firewall in an effort to shake up the market. Since then Palo Alto has grown from zero to a company that has 6,650 customers across 80 countries. Palo Alto Networks is now taking the next step in the company’s evolution by going public with […]

From the ‘Open Source Runs the World’ files: The inter-tubes were buzzing yesterday with the news of the blockbuster $1 billion sale of Instagram to Facebook. This is a company that is barely a year old and yet they achieved so much in so very little time. While there are a number of components that […]

From the ‘All Good Things…’ files: The first Linux 2.4 kernel was released in January of 2001. Today after eleven years of service, it looks like the end of the 2.4 kernel is finally here. The 2.4 kernel has been in maintenance only mode for most of the last six years since the 2.6 kernel […]

From the ‘Culture of Contribution’ files: Last year, Canonical the lead commercial sponsor behind Ubuntu, made a big deal about switching their Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) technology to an OpenStack base. The OpenStack open source cloud community also based their reference architecture on Ubuntu. With that amount of ‘tight’ public integration you would think that […]

The new Viprion 4480 chassis will replace the Viprion 4400 as the top of the line device from F5. The 4480 chassis is a modular platform that will be paired with the new 4300 blade as part of a complete solution. According to F5, the new solutions can deliver as much as 320 gigabytes per […]

Among the “big fix” items in the new Chrome 18.0.1025.151 release is a Flash player security update, that only Google Chrome is receiving. Google Chrome is the only browser that directly integrates Adobe Flash. “The Chrome update includes fixes to two memory corruption vulnerabilities that were specific to Adobe Flash Player integrated with Google Chrome,” […]

The Essex release has a strong focus on cloud stability as a result of a release cycle change to allow for more quality assurance time. The OpenStack Diablo release came out in September 2011 after a six-month release cycle. With Essex, it was again a six-month release cycle, but  the QA time was tripled and […]