Sean Michael Kerner

Oracle officially release the Solaris 11 Unix operating system, the first major Solaris release under Oracle’s ownership and first major update to Solaris since Solaris 10 back in 2004. Oracle has been testing and previewing the new Unix release in a Solaris 11 Express build that has been available since the end of 2010. Oracle […]

Microsoft is out with its monthly Patch Tuesday update today, delivering four separate security advisories. Only one of the advisories is rated as critical, two are rated as important and one is rated as having moderate risk. From an immediate impact perspective, the MS11-083 bulletin in the November Patch Tuesday update is the most urgent, […]

Fedora 16 is codenamed Verne, although the release has been dedicated to Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C language, who recently passed away. Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith, told InternetNews.com that Fedora 16 refines and adds a number of cloud computing and virtualization tools. “The new Aeolus Conductor is a web-based platform for managing virtual […]

Mozilla’s rapid release train has pulled into the station on time, with the fifth major Firefox browser release of 2011. Firefox 8 is being released today, providing developers with new capabilities and offering users more security via a new add-ons policy. “We’re proud of the way Firefox continues to move the web forward in this […]

Rackspace is moving beyond its own walls to help others deliver and deploy cloud solutions. Rackspace is one of the leaders behind the open source OpenStack cloud platform effort. The Rackspace Cloud Edition will provide datacenters with an OpenStack cloud that has the operational support and managed services backing of Rackspace. “Rackspace Cloud Private Edition […]

Mainframes and x86 Windows boxes have for the most part existed in two different worlds. That’s now about to change, thanks to a new effort from IBM that will bring Windows into the mainframe world. Scott Carlson, manager System z Product Marketing, explained to InternetNews.com that in 2010, IBM’s zEnterprise program opened up the mainframe […]

In recent years, the drumbeat of vendors proclaiming the ascendancy of NoSQL has become increasingly loud. One of the NoSQL vendors that is seeing business results from its NoSQL solution is 10gen, which is the lead commercial sponsor behind the open source MongoDB NoSQL database. “We’re seeing the NoSQL space really taking off now and […]

Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU) reported third quarter fiscal 2011 earnings today showing progress in the company’s mission to become profitable, though many challenges remain. For the quarter Alcatel-Lucent reported revenues of 3.8 billion Euro which is a 6.8 percent decline on a year-over-year basis. Net Income was reported at 194 million Euro a dramatic increase from the […]

For the last several weeks, the Duqu virus has been alive in the wild. While there had been some speculation as to how it infects systems, Microsoft has now admitted that a zero day flaw in Windows is partially to blame. In a security advisory issued late Thursday, Microsoft disclosed a previously un-reported Windows flaw. […]

Those staffers who were born and raised in the Internet era have a different view of how connectivity and social media should exist in the workplace, according to a new study. A new Connected World study from networking vendor Cisco System was released this week, based on survey data from 2,800 college students and young […]

IBM is contributing code to the open source Eclipse Foundation to help enable a new era of machine-to-machine communications. The Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) has been used by IBM as a messaging protocol for a number of years. In 2010, IBM announced that MQTT would be freely available under a royalty-free license. Today IBM […]

Open source business intelligence (BI) vendor Pentaho is advancing its capabilities with new in-memory features. The Pentaho Business Analytics 4.1 release provides advanced in-memory features that enable enterprises to leverage the benefits of in-memory as well as disk-based analysis. “Most of the other BI vendors make you choose either in-memory or on disk, and we […]