Sean Michael Kerner

“In the past, data was rows and columns, things that were akin to spreadsheets, names, addresses and records for sales. Now the shape of the data is so much different.”  Frank Artale, a partner with venture capital firm Ignition Partners explaining why his firm is investing in Cloudera and Big Data (InternetNews)     “The […]

Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) reported is fourth quarter 2011 financial results this week, showing continued Ethernet growth. For the quarter, Brocade reported fourth quarter 2011 revenue of $550 million, which is only $1 million more than the $549 million reported in the fourth quarter of 2010. Earnings Per Share declined to a loss of $0.01 down […]

The move towards Big Data and NoSQL is being fuelled by big money, as investors bet on the next big thing in technology. One of those venture capitalists is Frank Artale, a partner with Ignition Partners and an investor in Apache Hadoop startup Cloudera and NoSQL vendor Couchbase. In an exclusive interview with InternetNews.com, Artale […]

Last week, technology startup Boundary debuted its new real-time monitoring-as-a-service offering. The company also announced that it raised $4 million in Series A funding to help fuel its development for a new paradigm for network and application monitoring. The Boundary service works by way of agents that are installed on enterprise assets. Those agents then […]

Avaya is expanding its networking portfolio this week with the new ERS 4800 switch for the campus edge. With the 4800, Avaya is adding ports that will support both Gigabit as well as 10 Gigabit Ethernet with new SFP+ ports. Additionally, the new switch handles Power over Ethernet (PoE) Plus, providing up to 25.5 Watts […]

Google has released Chrome Stable 15.0.874.121 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame platforms fixing a single JavaScript flaw. The flaw is identified as CVE-2011-3900 and is rated as being high impact by Google. The flaw is an out-of-bounds write issue with the Chrome v8 JavaScript Engine. An out-of-bounds write, means that a process has […]

Cisco is now extending its revived Jabber brand with a new developer effort and tools to help embed messaging capabilities into browsers and applications. “Cisco Jabber can now be incorporated into any web application using a browser plug-in,” Michael Smith, group director of marketing for Cisco collaboration, told InternetNews.com. “So we can now embed Instant […]

One of the key new features in the openSUSE 12.1 release is the Snapper tool that helps users to take full advantage of the Btrfs filesystem. “Btrfs adds the ability to do rollbacks on file changes,” openSUSE Board Chairman, Alan Clark told InternetNews.com. “So if someone accidentally deletes a file, I can use Snapper to […]

Would you leave the keys in the ignition of a running car in Times Square? According to new research, that is precisely what many people are doing when it comes to the public cloud. Security consulting firm Stach & Liu has recently updated their Diggity toolset to easily enable researchers to find cloud security keys […]

From the ‘Not so relaxing news’ files: An interesting mailing list posting caught my eye the other day titled,  EOL for couchdb. At first I did a double-take, couchDB is hitting end-of-life? How could that be? As it turns out it is the CouchDB support that Ubuntu has that is going EOL and that’s very […]

“You’re witnessing the 1 teraflop barrier busting.” Rajeeb Hazra, general manager of Intel’s technical computing group, said at an unveiling ceremony for Intel’s Knights Corner chip. (Seattle Times)    “We cannot continue a system that allows criminals to disregard our laws and import counterfeit and pirated goods across our physical borders.” Statement of Judiciary […]

Red Hat is expanding OpenShift with Java build and development tools support to enable organizations to both build and deploy in the cloud. “Previously you would code and do your dependency resolution in your own data center, your laptop or wherever you are working,” Isaac Roth, PaaS Master at Red Hat told InternetNews.com. “Then you […]