Sean Michael Kerner

The cloud represents tremendous opportunities for IT to achieve better agility and scale. According to Mike Rothman, Analyst and President at security research firm Securosis, the cloud also represents a different set of risks that enterprises need to understand. Rothman detailed his views on securing the cloud at the SecTor security conference, currently underway in […]

The word “hacker” is often misconstrued to be a bad thing, though that’s not always accurate. That was the message delivered by security researcher Joe Grand at the SecTOR security conference today here in Toronto. Grand is also known as the Kingpin and was formerly one of the founding members of the L0pht hacker collective […]

PHP was the core language of the 1.0 era of the web, bringing scripting to the emerging Internet. PHP vendor Zend now wants PHP to be the language for the cloud and today announced a new service to do just that. The PHPcloud.com service is built on top of Amazon and provides developers with an […]

As increasing numbers of enterprises begin to make the move toward the cloud, the need for automation and management is becoming increasingly important. For virtualization vendor VMware, their vCenter software is the cornerstone of virtualization management. Today VMware is expanding vCenter, with a new vCenter Operations Suite that combines virtualization and management features for cloud […]

Cisco and HP used to be close partners. That all changed when Cisco introduced their own server platform and HP acquired 3com to aggressively go after the networking market. While the two companies today are rivals, they have now come together for a product collaboration that will serve to benefit their joint customers. The new […]

Mozilla is making a significant strategy shift for mobile development. Instead of going against the grain, they’re going with the flow and going native for the Android version of Firefox. The move toward a native implementation of Firefox for Android is likely to debut for Firefox 10. By moving to a native user interface, Mozilla […]

A new study commissioned by VeriSign, provides some interesting findings on the state of DNS availability. VeriSign is a company well-placed to understand DNS, since they operate the .com and .net registries as well as helping to maintain some of the root zone DNS servers for the Internet. The DNS availability study looked at the […]

Google is continuing to grow its business even as the global economic recovery appears to be slowing down. Part of Google’s growth and future optimism comes from the success of its Android mobile operating system and new efforts like Google+. For the third quarter of 2011, Google reported revenues of $9.72 billion which is a […]

“Most of what we do is heavily influenced by Dennis’s outstanding contributions – both in the technical arena and as a founder of the concept of community development.”  Tim Burke, Vice President Linux Engineering, commenting on the passing of Dennis Richie creator of C and Unix (Red Hat)   “People being told what to […]

Log files can be an effective source of data for identifying security threats. What you do once you’ve identified those threats from log files is where a new release from security information and event management (SIEM) vendor LogRhythm comes into play. The LogRhythm 6.0 platform adds the concept of automated remediation for security events, providing […]

While some tech vendors believe that the world has moved to the post-PC era, Dell is not one of them. At the DellWorld conference, Dell founder Michael Dell explained the mission of his company, and why the PC still holds down the foundation. While PC’s are still important to Dell, Dell is no longer just […]

The 11.10 comes six months after the 11.04 Natty Narwhal release. Among the key new items in 11.04 is a tech preview of the OpenStack open source cloud platform. In the new 11.10 release, Ubuntu has made OpenStack a fully supported technology and is shifting to it as the basis for the Ubuntu Enteprise Cloud […]