Sean Michael Kerner

The promise of Unified Communications (UC) gear is just that, unifying communications from multiple mediums. In the modern wireless world, UC also needs to include mobile devices, which is what a new version of ShoreTel’s mobility platform is all about. “It’s about having all of the desk phone and UC capabilities available on your mobile […]

Red Hat Wednesday announced the new JBoss Enterprise SOA 5.2, JBoss Enterprise Data Services Boss Enterprise Business Rules Management System (BRMS) platform releases. Pierre Fricke, director of SOA product line management at Red Hat told, InternetNews.com that the overall goal of the new product releases is to help build intelligent, integrated enterprises. Part of that […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) is rolling out a new set of SmartCloud services and software, providing new opportunities for enterprises to move their applications to a cloud model. The new offerings include the debut of SmartCloud Enterprise 2.0, which is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. The new SmartCloud will also enable IBM DB2 database-as-a-service as well other […]

The Apache Subversion (SVN) open source version control system is out with its 1.7 release today. The new SVN 1.7 release adds new features such as HTTPv2 and WC-NG that improve performance and make version control more efficient for developers. The SVN 1.7 release comes at a time when the open source Git version control […]

The open source NGINX web server is now one of the fastest growing web servers on the Internet. NGINX now holds down an 8.5 percent market share, with just over 43 million sites, according to the most recent Netcraft survey. NGINX is now moving to the next stage of itS development with a commercial company […]

Canonical is set to release Ubuntu 11.10, codenamed the Oneiric Ocelot this week, with a key focus on the cloud. Among the cloud-focused technology components that are set to debut in the new Linux distribution is something that Canonical is branding as Juju. With Juju, Ubuntu is aiming to deliver a cloud orchestration technology for […]

Testing vendor Coverity is expanding its namesake static analysis testing suite. With the release of Coverity 5.5, Coverity is aiming to integrate its testing suite more fully into software development and deployment. Developers can integrate the Coverity 5.5 testing suite with HP’s Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), as well as add it as part of a […]

In the world of security inspection, speed matters. To that end, Sourcefire (NASDAQ:FIRE) today announced a new set of intrusion prevention systems (IPS), including their first to include a 40 gigabit Ethernet (40 GbE) interface port for high-speed data center connectivity. Sourcefire is also introducing a new device for SSL security inspection to help protect […]

There is notion out in the marketplace that Cisco networking equipment is significantly more expensive than buying similar gear from other vendors like HP. According to Cisco, that’s not the truth. Cisco is out this week with a new model for enterprises to calculate the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of networking equipment. The new […]

From the ‘Democratically Chosen Linux Name‘ files: After a failed bid for Fedora 16, Beefy Miracle has been chosen as the name for Fedora 17. That’s right and this is not a joke. Red Hat’s community Linux distribution, Fedora has chosen – Beefy Miracle – to be the name for the Fedora 17 , due […]

From “Mozilla’s Millions’ files: While much of the economy has been in a tailspin, Mozilla’s fiscal 2010 wasn’t all that bad. The open source foundation released their 2010 financial statements today. According to Mozilla, their consolidated reported revenue (Mozilla Foundation and all subsidiaries) for 2010 was $123 million, up approximately 18 percent from 2009. Not […]

Data is at the root of good decision making, but how do you get the right data in the right place to make those decisions? IBM (NYSE:IBM) is enhancing its software portfolio with new capabilities for analytics and business intelligence. The new software releases span the IBM Rational and Tivoli product groups. “We want to […]