Sean Michael Kerner

The Cloud is a model for computing that provides new opportunities for consumers, businesses — and yes, even criminals. As a result, one question that has emerged is: What is the reach of U.S. law enforcement agencies into the cloud, and to what extent are they able to operate in jurisdictions around the world? In […]

Networking vendor F5 is showing no signs of slowing down this year. F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) announced first quarter fiscal 2012 results on Wednesday that showed continued growth for the company. For the quarter, F5 reported Net Revenue of $322.4 million which is a 19.9 percent year-over year gain. Net income was reported at $66.5 […]

“I have heard from the critics and I take seriously their concerns regarding proposed legislation to address the problem of online piracy” Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), author of the Stop Online Piracy Act, (Washington Post)   “There is no magic pixie dust for preventing a fork.” Rackspace VP of Business & Corporate Development Mark Collier, […]

From the ‘Self-Serving Stats’ files: Nearly every year that I’ve been writing about Linux, I’ve seen at least one report (if not more) showing that Linux adoption is on the rise. The latest example came this week from the Linux Foundation. Yes, their data is self-serving, but the trend is clear and it has been […]

Oracle released its first quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU) of 2012 on Tuesday afternoon, addressing at least 78 security issues across its product lines. In terms of raw numbers, Oracle’s MySQL database has the highest number of fixed flaws, coming in at 27. The Sun Product Suite has 17 security updates which includes updates to […]

Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) Wednesday officially launched Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) version 3.0. The new release is the first from Red Hat that doesn’t require administrators to use Windows to manage their systems. Red Hat is positioning RHEV 3.0 as an alternative to proprietary virtualization platforms from VMware as well as Microsoft. The RHEV platform […]

Back in 2009, there was a lot of speculation about Cisco entering the data center server market with a new effort codenamed Project California. The California server was officially revealed in March of 2009 as the Unified Computing System (UCS). Now two and half years later, Cisco is claiming a major milestone has been achieved […]

FreeBSD has long been a highly-available operating architecture and that’s a key theme in the 9.0 release as well. One such new features in FreeBSD 9.0 is the Highly Available Storage (HAST) framework. “The ability to do realtime replication to another box is very important to the workflows of many entities that do storage,” Josh […]

The market for Data Center network equipment continues to accelerate at rapid pace. According to Infonetics Research 3Q11 Data Center Network Equipment report, global revenues are up by 12 percent on a year-over-year basis. Forecasting for the full 2011 year, Infonetics is projecting total revenues to be up by six percent over 2010. The outlook […]

From the ‘Fact Checking’ files: There are a lot of BIG tech vendors that aren’t talking about SOPA. Yes, I know there has been lots of noise about SOPA in recent weeks, but I was surprised to discover how few of the vendors that I regularly write about have an official view on the Stop […]

From the ‘No Forks Here’ files: The notion of being able to fork a project is core to open source. It’s also potentially a bad thing in some cases as it can lead to fragmentation of a user base and compatibility issues. The OpenStack effort which is currently trying to figure out how to govern […]

“By apparently systematically trawling our database, and then outsourcing that trawl to another continent, Google isn’t just scalping us, they’re also scalping every Kenyan who has participated in our program.” Stefan Magdalinski of Kenyan site Mocality, exposing Google for stealing his customer’s information (Mocality)     “We think the world is ready for this innovation.We […]