Sean Michael Kerner

Updates to enterprise Linux server releases don’t typically include rebased Linux kernels. Yet that is indeed what SUSE Linux is doing with SUSE Linux Enterprise Linux Server (SLES) 11 SP2. The new SLES service pack is the first major update to SUSE’s flagship platform since the business unit was re-formed as an operating division of […]

From the ‘Obvious Choices’ files: Last week, Mozilla officially decided to name its BrowserID effort for consumers as Persona. That choice left the existing Mozilla Personas community without a name, until today. Personas is now being renamed… Wait for it…. Themes. Uh huh. I shook my head too. Years ago, the Mozilla community (myself included) […]

Security vendor Qualys is now throwing its hat into the commercial WAF ring with a new WAF service in the cloud. The goal of the QualysGuard WAF is to enable more organizations to leverage WAF technology to protect their applications. “We’ve noticed that traditional WAFs are usually hardware appliances and usually difficult to use,” Ivan […]

As the server industry awaits the official release of Intel next generation E5 processors next week, server vendors are busy announcing their own platform refreshes. Last week it was HP with its Gen8 platform; this week it’s Dell with the 12G server platform. While Intel’s new server chips are at the heart of the 12G […]

As an IT security executive, your ability to effectively manage risk depends in large part on having an accurate operational viewpoint into the security posture of your organization’s IT assets. But gathering actionable intelligence from a wide range of systems and platforms can be a complicated task. Announced today, the HP Security Intelligence and Risk […]

Since its creation over a decade ago, Mozilla has never had its own complete operating system. That’s now about to change as Mozilla is ramping up its Boot to Gecko effort, which will enable Mozilla Firefox-powered phones. Gecko is the underlying rendering framework behind Firefox. Today Mozilla announced that leading service providers, including Telefonica and […]

Building out an enterprise network often involves including multiple networking hardware vendors as a way to leverage risk. According to a new study by Deloitte Consulting, Multivendor network architectures, TCO, and operational risk, having multiple vendors isn’t necessarily a good thing and, in fact, could increase your overall risk. Deloitte is advocating for single vendor […]

One of Salesforce’s big wins in the fourth quarter was with HP, a company that has been undergoing a great deal of leadership and organizational change. Benioff noted that HP embarked on a transformation to become a more social enterprise, connecting employees, customers and partners using the Salesforce Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Chatter and Force.com.  […]

From the ‘Linux Miracle’ files: The first alpha milestone of the Fedora Linux 17 release is now available. This is the release that is known as the Beefy Miracle and it’s not just a marketing message, it’s also a statement about how much ‘beef’ has been packed into this release. “When we said Beefy, we […]

SSL certificates are cornerstone security elements for many enterprises. Yet new research shows that few organizations have deployed effective processes for securely managing those certificates. A study from Osterman Research has found that the majority of enterprises don’t have an accurate inventory of their SSL certificate population. For those that do track the certs they […]

HP is starting off its fiscal 2012 year on a down note financially. HP reported first-quarter fiscal 2012 earnings late Wednesday with declining revenues and income. For the quarter, HP reported net revenues of $30.0 billion, which is a 7 percent year-over-year decline. Net earnings were reported at $1.5 billion, a 44 percent year-over-year decline. […]

There are a lot of different assets in an enterprise network that can relay security event information. Collecting all that information and understanding what it means is what IBM’s QRadar Security Intelligence Platform is all about. IBM (NYSE: IBM) acquired Q1 Labs in October of 2011 and has since been forming its newly assembled IBM […]