Sean Michael Kerner

For the first time in seven years, the 2011 Cost of Data Breach Study has found that the cost of lost and stolen data in 2011 actually declined. The study is sponsored by Symantec and is conducted by the Ponemon Institute. Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute, explained to InternetNews.com that the […]

Linus Torvalds released the Linux 3.3 kernel on Sunday, formally ending a two year dispute between mainline Linux kernel developers and Google Android developers. The Linux 2.6.38 kernel that was released in February of 2010 removed Android code after Linux kernel developers alleged that it wasn’t being maintained properly. Friction between Linux and Android developers […]

What challenges lay ahead for networks in 2012? According to the recently released, 2012 State of the Network Global Study, it’s more cloud adoption and video. The study was authored by network management vendor, Network Instruments. According to the study, 60 percent of organizations expect that half their applications will run in the cloud inside […]

From the ‘Leadership Changes that Work’ files: Two years ago in March of 2010, Mark Shuttleworth stepped down as CEO of Canonical Ubuntu Linux. Shuttleworth moved aside to deal with the strategic technical issues of the project and his Chief Operating Office Jane Silber stepped up to become the CEO. It’s a move that today […]

From the ‘Open Web Video’ files: Mozilla’s initial attempt to help enable an open web without the patent-encumbered H.264 video codecs has failed. In my opinion, this is a sad day for the open web and a terrible precedent for Mozilla to set. Mozilla had tried to get around using H.264 by using and supporting […]

As Node.js continues to gain adoption, there is an increasing need for tools to help test the applications built on it. When cloud hosting provider Rackspace started to use Node.js and ran up against the testing requirement, they wrote their own testing tool for Node.js applications called Whiskey. Whiskey is an open source test automation […]

The need for the network to be aware of the traffic it is carrying and to adjust appropriately is key in the modern world, where network traffic is mission critical. To that end, Alcatel-Lucent is now debuting a new switch and an enhanced version of its Application Fluency initiative. “Our converged network solutions for 2012 […]

“I have difficult news. We’ve learned that Mike Daisey’s story about Apple in China – which we broadcast in January – contained significant fabrications.” Ira Glass, host and executive produce , this American Life on NPR (ThisAmericanLife).   “The trick in technology is to take the complexity away, allowing it to be used in a […]

Open source business intelligence and analytics vendor Pentaho has built a business around delivering standalone enterprise solutions. It also now has growing business embedding its solutions into OEM products. To help accelerate the adoption and integration of Pentaho into third party applications, particularly software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, Pentaho now has a new program called Powered by […]

NDS develops software that enables service providers to deliver content. The NDS technology will be complementary to what Cisco’s Videoscape networking initiative delivers from an infrastructure perspective. The acquisition will also move Cisco further into the software space. Cisco CEO John Chambers explained during a webcast with press and analysts, that the acquisition of NDS […]

From the ‘More Stable Goodness’ files: The Document Foundation is out now with yet another LibreOffice release. This time its’ the 3.5.1 release, which follows the 3.5.0 release by a month. This is mostly a bug and stability fix, but it’s an important one, for alot of reasons. For people that spend the bulk of […]

From the ‘E5 Inside’ files: Intel launched its’ next generation Xeon E5 processor family last week, promising better raw compute performance and a new Data Direct I/O system. I wondered last week, how Linux vendors would be leveraging the E5, since Linux plays such a huge role in the server space. In my initial inquiries, […]