Sean Michael Kerner

The open source ownCloud project is moving fast to help enterprises displace proprietary cloud storage sharing technologies. The ownCloud project got commercial backing in December and is now out with a new release that paves the way for wider adoption. OwnCloud’s offering is analogous in many ways to what Dropbox and Box provide in that […]

Mozilla is taking a page from Google’s Chrome development and is gearing up to implement a new protocol to help accelerate the Firefox web browser. The open source Firefox 11 browser, which is now in beta, will include the SPDY protocol. The current stable release of Firefox is version 10, which was released last week. […]

From the ‘Thanks Jared!’ files: It looks like current Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith will not be overseeing the Beefy Miracle Fedora 17 release. Smith announced leadership changes at the Fedora project today that will see a new leader in place. Smith became the Fedora Project Leader in June of 2010 as the successor to […]

From the ‘Summer Already?’ For the last eight years, I’ve been amazed and awed at Google’s Summer of Code. The effort started back in 2005 with some 200 participants and it has grown every year since. In 2011, 1,116 students were accepted into the program, which pays the students as well as the open source […]

For years, security researchers have used the terms “black box” and “white box” to describe dynamic and static web application security analysis, respectively. IBM is now seeking to combine the best of both approaches by introducing a new approach called “Glass Box.” “We use the terms ‘black box’ and ‘dynamic analysis’ interchangeably, and basically that’s […]

OpenFlow technology has been used for years by researchers and early adopters as a way to build software defined networks. OpenFlow is now getting a major vote of confidence from HP with a portfolio of at least 16 switches that will offer full support for OpenFlow. HP has been a supporter of the OpenFlow effort […]

Riverbed (NASDAQ:RVBD) wants to help enterprises consolidate their operations without duplicating much between the edge of the network and the data center. To that end, the networking vendor is introducing a new architectural approach called, Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure (edge-VSI). Edge-VSI is powered by a new hardware series called Granite, as well as a new […]

While revenue growth is likely to slow at Facebook, the company has made it clear in its S1 that it intends to maintain its developer culture. It’s a culture that CEO Mark Zukerberg refers to as, “The Hacker Way.” “The word ‘hacker’ has an unfairly negative connotation from being portrayed in the media as people […]

“We have a saying: Move fast and break things. The idea is that if you never break anything, you’re probably not moving fast enough.” Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook in his company’s S1 IPO filing (Datamation)    “We have the words ‘Done is better than perfect’ painted on our walls to remind ourselves to always […]

Developer tools vendor ActiveState is out with a major new release of their Komodo IDE. Komodo 7 is the first big update to the IDE since Komodo 6 was released in October of 2010. Komodo 7 adds new developer collaboration and synchronization tools as well as new support for popular frameworks like Node.js and LESS. […]

Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is giving more power to its Catalyst and Nexus switch customers with new modules that support the 40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 100GbE standards. The 40 and 100 GbE standards were approved in June of 2010 and ever since, networking vendors have been incrementally adding those capabilities to their platforms. The Catalyst 6500 […]

From the ‘Microsoft Bashers’ files: OpenStack is supposed to be a vendor agnostic open community for building an open source cloud stack. And it is, unless you don’t pull your own weight- or if you’re Microsoft. I know there is plenty of vitriol in the open source world towards Microsoft and certainly some of […]