Sean Michael Kerner

In the beginning of the web era, the web browser gave developers the ‘view source’ option enabling developers to see code and learn from others. Browser vendor Mozilla is now going far beyond ‘view source’ with a series of built-in developer tools in the new Firefox 10 release. Instead of digging through source, Firefox 10 […]

Brocade (NASDAQ:BRCD) is updating its ADX Application Delivery Controller (ADC) operating system providing new scriptable extensibility. The Brocade ADX 12.4 release is the first major update to the platform in nearly a year, following the 12.3 platform that had a key focus on IPv6. The new extensibility comes by way of a technology that Brocade […]

Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) is changing the length of time that it supports its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system platform. Red Hat will now provide standard support of 10 years for RHEL 5 and 6. Red Hat had previously offered seven years of standard support with an optional Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) program, […]

Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is updating it WLAN portfolio today with a new flagship Aironet access point. The Aironet 3600 is a three spatial stream device with a simulataneous 2.4 and 5 Ghz, 4×4 antenna design. The total theoretical speed of the access point comes in at 900 Mbps. Specified speed alone doesn’t define the true capabilities […]

Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) is out with its first major enterprise supported Linux release will full support for the Linux 3.0 kernel. The Red Hat MRG 2.1 platform provides Messaging, Realtime and Grid capabilities and was last updated in June of 2011 with the 2.0 release. Red Hat has been developing the MRG realtime platform since […]

From the ‘For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow’ files: Greg Kroah-Hartman is joining the Linux Foundation as a ‘fellow.’ The move means that he’s leaving SUSE – that’s right kaput, no more SUSE for him. I’ve been a huge fan of Greg ever since I sat in a session he ran at LinuxWorld in 2006..you […]

Open source business intelligence vendor Pentaho is bringing Big Data transformation capabilities into the open source fold. Pentaho announced today the new Kettle 4.3 release, which includes new capabilities for transforming and working with Big Data. Kettle is an Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) technology, which enables applications to take data from outside sources, transform […]

From the ‘Mozilla Labs is Ok; Real implementation is Better’ files: I’m not easily impressed by ‘new’ ideas in the Linux desktop space, which is why the Ubuntu HUD is even more interesting to me. The HUD is based on a concept that I really believe in and supported (though my own usage and newb […]

Canonical is trying out a concept known as a Heads Up Display (HUD), a tool employed by fighter jet pilots to give them the tactical information they need with their “heads-up” during flight. In the software context, the HUD provides a dialogue box through which the user can interact with applications and the underlying system. […]

2011 was the best year ever at VeriSign for new domain registrations. VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN) reported fourth quarter fiscal 2011 and full year results on Thursday. The results come during a period of pending transition in the Internet domain business, as the new gTLD process begins and as VeriSign’s agreement with ICANN to operate the .com […]

Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) didn’t finish its fiscal 2011 year quite as well as executives had hoped. The company reported fourth quarter fiscal 2011 and full year results late Thursday, showing a decline at the end of the year. The overall full-year results were positive, however. Moving forward, Juniper CEO Kevin Johnson sees growth coming from […]

Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) wants to return the Gluster filesystem to its open source roots. Red Hat acquired Gluster for $136 million in October 2011 and is now moving to help further accelerate its innovation. The GlusterFS project will now have an independent GlusterFS project board that includes members from Red Hat, Facebook, Citrix and Eucalyptus. […]