Sean Michael Kerner

Research In Motion Limited (RIM), announced its full year fiscal 2012 financial results last week and the news is not good. The Blackberry maker announced revenue and income losses as well an organizational shakeup that will see their CTO, COO and company co-founder Jim Balsillie all leave the company. RIM’s fourth quarter revenues were reported […]

The open source Puppet configuration management and automation tool has been widely used by an ever-increasing base of users, big and small. The new Puppet Enterprise 2.5 release announced this week takes that base a step further with advanced configuration tools that extend across Linux, Unix and Windows systems. The open source Puppet configuration management […]

Red Hat is the first pure play open source and Linux vendor to achieve the $1 billion milestone. For the year, Red Hat’s revenues were reported at $1.13 billion for a 25 percent year-over-year gain. GAAP Net Income for the full year was reported at $146.6 million or $0.75 per diluted share, which is a […]

Making networks more energy efficient requires optimizations at many different levels. One of those levels is the access layer for service provider networks that power millions of homes and businesses around the world. The current method for deploying fiber delivery is not as energy efficient as it could be, according to research from the Alcatel-Lucent […]

Adobe’s Flash Player is among the most attacked pieces of technology on the web today. While Adobe moves as quickly as it can to patch flaws, users haven’t always updated their own devices as quickly as Adobe provides updates. That situation could now be set to change with the release today of a new version […]

From the ‘Year of the Linux Desktop’ files: Microsoft’s Window 8 is nearing completion and with it comes the new Metro interface. It’s an interface that could translate into a big win for the Linux desktop. Windows 8 is a dramatic shift from the previous generation of Windows and that will no doubt upset and […]

From the ‘Open Source $$’ files: Today Red Hat will officially become the first pure play Open Source and Linux vendor to top $1 Billion in revenues. WOW. We’ve known this day was coming for a while, Red Hat has continued to thrive despite the economic downturn. In fact, the economic downturn has had a […]

Modern Big Data type application architectures are all about distributed development and resources. When it comes to running apps though, those distributed architecture also have multiple points of potential failure that need to be monitored for optimum efficiency and uptime. One solution for the challenge of monitoring Big Data comes from startup Boundary. Boundary offers […]

Cisco today announced new collaboration offerings for the Apple iPad as well as a new telepresence system that integrates the best of Tandberg technology with Cisco. On the mobile front, Cisco is announcing Jabber for iPad. Jabber is Cisco’s presence and messaging collaboration platform. Jabber is already available for the iPhone in a pair of […]

From the I Can Haz GameZ? Mozilla believes that the Web is the platform for apps, and not just business productivity apps, but gaming apps as well. To prove their point, the open source foundation now has a full HTML5 browser game out now called BrowserQuest. It leverages WebSockets and Canvas to enable a MMOG […]

A key driver for UC growth in 2012 is the continued adoption of video, which is placing increased demand on networks. At the same time, getting a video delivery properly setup on a network isn’t a trivial task. “What we’re doing is releasing two primary ways to bring video to market, they’re both designed to […]

Microsoft together with law enforcement has taken action in an attempt to weaken the nefarious Zeus malware botnet in an operation codenamed, Operation b71. The Zeus botnet is among the prolific forms of malware on the Internet today, installing keyloggers on zombie PCs that are then used to relay users’ private financial information to criminals. […]