Sean Michael Kerner

Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) is out with the second major update to its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution release. The RHEL 6.2 release provides improved resource management, virtualization and storage capabilities. RHEL 6 first debuted in November 2010 and was updated in May 2011 with the RHEL 6.1 release. One of the major changes […]

From the ‘Desktop Linux Titans‘ files: Miguel de Icaza started the GNOME project back in 1997 along with Federico Mena. In recent years, my interactions with De Icaza have been all about Mono, the open source implementation of .NET. Even more recently, De Icaza’s focus has narrowed further with his new startup Xamarin that is […]

The world of application and server load testing has traditionally been limited by the availability of on-premise resources. With a new service from startup Blazemeter, that changes as load testing can now be done via a self-service cloud model. Blazemeter today announced that they have raised $1.2 million in Series A funding to help support […]

The cloud isn’t just about server, compute and storage virtualization, it’s also about the network. For networking vendor Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), the network is the foundation for enabling the universe of clouds with a new effort called CloudVerse. Pat Adamiak, senior director, cloud marketing at Cisco explained to InternetNews.com that Cisco’s CloudVerse cloud strategy is all […]

The new RiOS 7 release comes as Riverbed continues to build out a broader portfolio of network optimization and visibility solutions beyond just the RiOS powered Steelhead WAN optimization appliances. Riverbed’s Cascade division is the lead sponsor of the open source Wireshark network analysis tool. With RiOS 7, Wireshark integration gets even tighter. “We’ve integrated […]

2011 has been a year of significant changes for the Mono community. For the most part those changes have resulted in new development momentum. Today Mono startup Xamarin is announcing Mono for Android 4, providing support for Google’s latest Android release. Mono was originally started by Novell as an open source implementation of the Microsoft […]

Sourcefire (NASDAQ:FIRE) has built its brand and reputation over the last decade on top of its Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and the open source SNORT IPS project. Sourcefire is now moving beyond IPS with new Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) technology that provides context awareness and deep packet inspection capabilities to help secure enterprise networks. The […]

From the ‘Don’t always believe what you read’ files: There has been some ‘confusion’ in recent days about the status of Mozilla’s relationship with Google. Some have speculated (incorrectly) that the deal is over, leaving Mozilla without its chief source of revenue. That’s simply not the case. Just ask Mozilla. They just released a new […]

Helping VeriSign to see the future of the Internet is their new CTO Burt Kaliski. Kaliski told InternetNews.com that he is responsible for the long term technology direction at VeriSign and is tasked with understanding how the Internet will change in the years ahead. “In terms of a technology direction one of the significant questions […]

When Google Chrome first debuted in 2008, there was some speculation about whether or not the new browser would surpass Mozilla Firefox. Fast forward three years of development and over 16 Chrome releases, and behold: The day that Chrome is more popular than Firefox might just be here today. According to analytics firm StatCounter, Chrome […]

The WebLogic 12c release comes as the Java 7 language specification begins to take hold and as cloud deployments continues to rise. “The Cloud application foundation is the underlying application infrastructure for all of our Fusion middleware, and WebLogic12c is the cornerstone of that infrastructure,” Mike Lehmann, senior director of product management, Oracle told InternetNews.com. […]

“Hey, with gnome-tweak-tool and the dock extension, gnome-3.2 is starting to look almost usable.” Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux talking about the GNOME desktop (InternetNews) “IT is a transformative factor in the global economy and the measure of success is how much better we’ve made the overall economy and society better by enabling a connected […]