Sean Michael Kerner

The typical Wi-Fi deployment today involves access points deployed in hallways or rooms as standalone boxes. As the move towards pervasive wireless access grows, so too have the demands on wireless infrastructure. That’s where Aruba Networks (NASDAQ:ARUN) is aiming to fill a gap with a new wall mountable access point. The AP-93H is a 2×2 […]

Every since the very beginning of the Internet, new top level domains (TLD) have been added incrementally. Currently the number of TLDs stands at 22, but thanks to a process that begins today that number could be over 1,000 by this time next year. The new TLDs are known as generic top level domains (gTLD) […]

The name Ubuntu is closely tied to Linux, but that doesn’t mean Ubuntu is only interested in Linux servers and desktops. This week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind Ubuntu, is showing off where it’s headed in the consumer space. Canonical is demoing their Ubuntu TV […]

With Dreadnot, Rackspace engineers are able to push code into production faster than ever. Paul Querna, engineer on the Rackspace Cloud Monitoring team explained to InternetNews.com that their product lives over multiple regions and they wanted whole region coordination to be able to turn a whole region off, upgrade it, test and then do the […]

From the ‘Lowest Common Denominator’ files: One of the perceived shortcomings of Mozilla’s rapid release cycle, with new browsers every 6 weeks – is that enterprises couldn’t keep up. So now Mozilla has officially embraced a plan for an Enterprise release version of Firefox dubbed Extended Release Support (ESR). Personally, I don’t think it’s a […]

Microsoft is kicking off its 2012 Patch Tuesday release cycle with seven security bulletins. Among the items patched is an SSL issue that has been known publicly since at least September 2011. The January Patch Tuesday update provides a fix for the SSL BEAST attack (an acronym for Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS). The BEAST exploit […]

2012 is going to be a big year for the cloud and a big year for the open source OpenStack platform. AT&T announced on Monday that it was formally joining the OpenStack project. The addition of AT&T is expected to yield benefits to both AT&T as well as the open source community of vendors and […]

Big Data startup Cloudera is getting a big vote of confidence from Oracle. Oracle today announced the availability of the Oracle Big Data Appliance, including Cloudera’s distribution of Hadoop (CDH). Oracle first announced the Big Data engineered system at its OpenWorld conference in October of 2011. At that time, Oracle did not reveal how they would be […]

Exploits that take advantage of SQL Injection (SQLi) vulnerabilities in software are among the most dangerous and prevalent attacks on the Internet today. In a SQLi attack, hackers typically take advantage of security flaws in web application software to pass malicious commands to a database back-end. A SQLi vulnerability can potentially enable an attacker to […]

The year 2012 will likely be a milestone for Mozilla’s Firefox web browser, as the open source group aims to further accelerate web innovation. Among the ways that Mozilla plans on improving Firefox in 2012 is by way of a number of efforts that could make the browser more secure for a greater number of […]

The demand for Internet domains did not slow down at the end of 2011. According to Verisign’s (NASDAQ:VRSN) third quarter 2011 Domain Name Industry Brief, there are now some 220 million registered domain names. The new domain count milestone comes as the Internet prepares for a potential flood of new generic top-level-domains (TLDs). While new […]

From the ‘Linux Everywhere’ files: Canonical is pushing Ubuntu Linux onto TVs. That’s the big push for the Linux vendor at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that starts this week. Ubuntu TV is an effort that pushes the Ubuntu interface (Dash) for TV’s as a way to get content, including shows, movies and TV […]