Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘I Miss GNOME 2.x’ Files: There are a lot of people that don’t like the changes brought to the Linux desktop with GNOME 3. Among those people is none other than the father of Linux himself, Linus Torvalds. But that could be changing as GNOME 3.4 development work continues and could build on […]

From the ‘More Unix Share Left to Take’ files: Ever since, I first started with Linux in the late 90’s, I’ve been hearing Linux vendors tell me the opportunity is in taking share from Unix. Over the years, Linux certainly has taken a whole lot of share from Unix, but as it turns out, there […]

With the explosion of data in data centers, it has become increasingly difficult to manage and understand all of the information that is available to a modern enterprise. That’s where an updated set of products and services from HP is aiming to help, providing enterprise data centers with the analytics and insight necessary to benefit […]

Sourcefire (NASDAQ:FIRE) first debuted their ClamAV for Windows Desktop solution in March of 2010 as a way to help Windows users secure their PCs. Initially, the ClamAV for Windows solution included elements of the open source ClamAV scanning solution and proprietary bits from Immunet. Sourcefire acquired Immunet for $21 million in January of this year, […]

From the ‘Old Open Source Business Models Reborn‘ files: The term open core is poison for an open source project today isn’t it? More often than not, the term open core refers to some crippled piece of open source software that only really works when paired with some type of proprietary shell that make the […]

While Cisco has been predicting for years the growth of the network by way of their Visual Networking Index, the Cloud Index takes a look at traffic both inside and outside of the data center. Among the key forecasts from the new Cloud report is that overall data center IP traffic will grow between 2010 […]

Cisco’s IP Edge growth is coming at the expense of Chinese networking vendor Huawei. Huawei’s share in the third quarter dropped to 12.3 percent down from 17.2 percent in the second quarter of 2011. Looking at the Carrier Ethernet market as a whole, Infonetics is seeing continued strength in the sector. For 2011, Infonetics is […]

From the ‘Browser that Vibrates’ files: Mozilla developers have landed some interesting new mobile features for the upcoming Firefox 11 for Android release. The new features will enable the browser to take full advantage of underlying hardware features, including the ability to vibrate, use a camera, check battery status and send an SMS. “Web apps, […]

The open source Apache HTTP Web Server is at risk from a reverse proxy flaw that is currently unpatched. The flaw was disclosed Qualys security researcher Purtha Parikh late last week and is related to a flaw that Apache first attempted to fix in October. “While reviewing the patch for the older issue CVE-2011-3368, it […]

According to a report issued by networking vendor Infoblox, IPv6 support in .com, .net and .org zones has grown by 1,900 percent over the last 12 months. Even with the massive growth year-over-year gains, overall IPv6 zone adoption still has a long way to go. The Infoblox report pegged IPv6 adoption across the .com, .net […]

This past Thanksgiving, AT&T (NYSE:T) and Deutsche Telekom AG were not likely very thankful to the U.S Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC circulated a draft order last week, that outlined the commission’s opposition to the pending $39 billion merger of Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile USA unit and AT&T. That draft order in turn caused AT&T […]

Juniper Networks is expanding its WLAN portfolio with the new WLA532 access point. The WLA532 is a three-stream 802.11n WLAN access point that is targeted at high-density environments that handle time-sensitive media application flows. “We see this as the premium access point in our indoor portfolio,” said Steve Troyer, vice president, wireless product management at […]