Sean Michael Kerner

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) reported its fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2012 results late Tuesday, showing continued growth in the enterprise sector. For the fourth quarter, Dell’s Net Revenue came in at $16 billion which is a two percent year-over-year increase. Net Income during the quarter, fell by 18 percent on a year-over-year basis to […]

Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) is expanding its security portfolio this week with the acquisition of network security vendor Mykonos. Juniper is paying $80 million in cash for the privately company and, in the short term, has committed to retaining the existing Mykonos brand. Mykonos has a software platform that goes beyond what a traditional Web application […]

Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) is starting its fiscal 2012 out on a strong note. The networking vendor reported first quarter fiscal 2012 earnings late Tuesday showing good growth in storage and a flat showing for Ethernet products and services. For the quarter, Brocade reported revenues of $561 million which is a three percent year-over-year gain. Net […]

Networking vendor Aruba is now debuting a solution for BYOD, built on Linux and leveraging the open source FreeRADIUS access control solution to help return control to enterprises. “ClearPass provides a networking solution for BYOD to address all of the major operating systems and any networking vendor’s network architecture,” Robert Fenstermacher, director of Product Marketing […]

“Here’s the beautiful thing about this business; the deals don’t matter to us. We don’t really care about the big deals. It’s just icing on the cake.” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on his company’s fiscal 2012 earnings call (EnterpriseAppsToday)   “A formula for success here is not having revenue declines of negative 7 percent to […]

From the ‘Quantum Leap for Networking’ files:   Big news in the OpenStack world as the Quantum networking project is set to become a core project. Quantum is a networking component for OpenStack that delivers networking technologies that that no other cloud stack (that I know off) provides. It first showed up in the OpenStack […]

From the ‘Brand Confusion’ files: Mozilla officially announced today that its’ BrowserID effort for user authentication would get rebranded for end-users as Persona. Yeaah, I know (and so does Mozilla). Personas is a feature that has been in Mozilla’s browser since the Firefox 3.6 release (and even longer as an addon). Personas has tens of […]

Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind Ubuntu, Linux is launching a new effort that will bring mobile phones and desktops together in a very different type of experience. The new “Ubuntu for Android” effort isn’t about running Ubuntu Linux on an Android phone, it’s about enabling a new type of converged device. “Ubuntu for Android […]

After 17 years of existence, the Apache HTTP web server is one of the most successful and dominant open source projects of all time. Today Apache is looking to extend that streak of success with the new Apache 2.4 web server release, marking the first major Apache web server update since the 2.2 release in […]

Avaya is moving forward in 2012 with new leadership and integration plans for its networking business unit. Now sitting at the helm of Avaya Networking is industry heavyweight Marc Randall, who is currently the divisions’ senior vice president and general manager. Randall is tasked with the job of leading the division forward and carving out […]

The open source OpenStack cloud computing platform has grown significantly since it was first introduced in July 2010. The effort was originally started by NASA and Rackspace and has since grown to include more than 100 vendors including HP, Dell and Cisco. Now OpenStack developers are aiming to help make it easier than ever for […]

Some software vendors prefer to deliver security updates on a scheduled basis: Microsoft’s monthly “Patch Tuesday” is perhaps the best-known example of that approach. But Google takes a different road with its Chrome browser, opting instead to roll out updates on a rapid and ongoing basis. Google is now updating Chrome 17, just one week […]