Sean Michael Kerner

Brocade (NASDAQ:BRCD) this week announced that the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is now using 100 GbE delivered via Brocade’s MLXe routers. The deployment includes 56 ports of 100 GbE spanning multiple MLXe router chassis. According to Brocade the HHMI 100 GbE deployment is the largest 100 GbE deployment in a research institution. From a […]

The latest version of the Top500 List of the world’s most powerful computers is now out, demonstrating once again that the pace of supercomputer performance continues to accelerate. As it turns out the same top 10 supercomputers that led the Top500 list in June of 2011 are the same that lead the list in November. […]

Big enterprises typically deploy Wireless LAN (WLAN) with Access Points (APs) managed by a central controller. But not everyone needs the power and complexity of a controller-based WLAN, which is why Aruba Networks (NASDAQ:ARUN) has its Aruba Instant portfolio of products. Aruba Instant is a controller-less architecture for WLAN, enabling enterprises both large and small […]

From the ‘Not Far Now..’ files: The first Release Candidate (RC 1) for PHP 5.4 is now out, marking the end of the feature development phase of the next generation of PHP. “No new features will be included before the final version of PHP 5.4.0,” the PHP 5.4 rc1 announcement states. “The release candidate phase […]

From the ‘Unix vs. Linux’ files: Oracle is in an interesting position. It is now a supporter of both Linux and Unix with their own Oracle Enterprise Linux and Solaris Unix operating systems. This past week, Oracle released Solaris 11 their first official Unix release and it made me wonder if the new Solaris is […]

Networking vendor Brocade is expanding its campus switching portfolio with a new switch. The ICX 6610 is the new flagship campus switch from Brocade, delivering more bandwidth than previous products. The need to expand campus capabilities is all about providing an on ramp to the cloud. “To get to the cloud you have to go […]

Broadband Internet adoption has skyrocketed over the last decade in the U.S, though adoption hasn’t been entirely evenly spread across all Americans. That’s the conclusion from a new Exploring the Digital Nation report from The Department of Commerce’s Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The report is a […]

When Oracle acquired Sun in 2010, there were some concerns about how the Solaris Unix operating system would be developed. Today those concerns were brushed aside as Oracle released its first Unix release, Solaris 11. The Solaris 11 release is being called the world’s first Cloud OS by Oracle executives, who tout the release’s new […]

“For us we don’t want to build a toy, we’re not a toy company.” John Fowler, Executive VP of Systems at Oracle at the launch of Oracle’s Solaris 11 Unix operating system (Datamation) “We’re proud of the way Firefox continues to move the web forward in this release.” Gavin Sharp, Firefox engineer and the Firefox […]

From the ‘Good Ideas that Failed’ files: Remember Apache Harmony? The Apache Software Foundation led effort to build a fully open source implementation of Java? Guess what? The project is now (mostly) dead and that’s not good news. In a vote, Apache Harmony developers decided to move Harmony to the Attic, essentially shelving the project […]

From the ‘Date and Time’ files: Back in September, I wrote about the pending release of the Mozilla Lightning Calendar. At the time, I had expected the 1.0 release to come out at the end of September – as it runs out I was off by over a month. But hey, when we’ve all waited […]

Juniper has enjoy strong success in the service provider market over the years. That success has resulted in a global footprint for Juniper routers. This week, that global footprint was affected by a software error that caused Internet slowdowns and outages. “This morning, Juniper learned of a Border Gateway Protocol edge router issue that affected […]