Sean Michael Kerner

Riverbed (NASDAQ:RVBD) is expanding its production portfolio this week with new Stingray Application Deliver Control (ADC), Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Web Content Optimization (WCO) technologies. The new technologies come from Riverbed’s recent acquisitions of Zeus and Aptimize in July. “This follow-on from our acquisitions is really starting to bring the acquired products into the […]

From the ‘Open Source for Wall St.’ files: A group of financial firms have come together under the auspices of the Linux Foundation in a new open source effort known as, OpenMAMA (Middleware Agnostic Messaging API ).   OpenMAMA is an effort to standardize and simplify the MAMA APIs that have been in use since […]

“Today’s enterprises are operating in a world where consumers and workers no longer go online. They simply are online.” Akamai CEO Paul Sagan  during the company’s third quarter earnings call (EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet)   “I think if we look at the pace of innovation that has been made in software and we compare it to hardware, it’s […]

The IT industry has had open source software to help fuel innovation and the time is now right to have open source for hardware too. That’s the message coming out of the Open Compute Summit in New York City today from multiple technology companies including Facebook, Intel, Dell and Red Hat. Facebook initially announced the […]

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), reported third quarter fiscal 2011 earnings on Wednesday, showing once again that their model for content delivery networking and security works. Today’s enterprises are operating in a world where consumers and workers no longer go online. They simply are online,” Akamai CEO Paul Sagan said during the company’s earnings call. […]

F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) reported its fourth quarter fiscal 2011 earnings this week, showing revenue and income gains. For the quarter, F5 reported revenue of $314.6 million, which is a 24 percent year-over-year gain. During the fourth quarter, F5’s core ADC business generated the bulk of the revenues coming in at $307.3 million. Net Income […]

The general idea behind rewarding security researchers for finding flaws is that they will actually find flaws. That’s precisely what is happening at Google with the Chrome web browser. Google is now out with Chrome 15, fixing a large number of flaws found by third party researchers who are being paid bug bounties for their […]

NoSQL type databases have become increasingly popular over the last several years as a way to deliver better scalability and performance. There are a number of different types of NoSQL databases, including a graph database structure, which is what open source startup Neo Technology is all about. Neo Technology is the lead commercial sponsor behind […]

The Spider Labs division of security firm Trustwave conducts over 2,000 penetration tests a year looking for IT security risks. While some audits find normal flaws, there are some that lead to the discovery of extraordinary types of enterprise security risks. Speaking at the SecTOR security conference in Toronto last week, Nicholas Percoco, senior vice […]

Managing server and application configuration on Linux and Unix boxes during the past several years has gotten easier thanks to open source tools like Chef and Puppet. Now Opscode, the lead commercial sponsor behind the Chef project, is bringing the benefits of Chef to Windows users. The Chef system enables administrators to leverage ‘recipes’ that […]

Internet attacks can come from anywhere in the world, though according to a new report from Akamai, it’s more likely that the Asia Pacific region is to blame. Akamai’s second quarter 2011 State of the Internet report, identifies the top source of attack traffic as well as which server ports are being targeted. For the […]

From the ‘I was a 1.0 user!’ files I make no apologies for being a huge fan of the Asterisk open source PBX project. I’ve been a user since the 1.0 release, which is coincidentally the first time I ever wrote about the project, all the way back in 2004. Today Asterisk 10.0 is being […]