Sean Michael Kerner

The JavaOne 2011 conference took place this week in San Francisco, providing Java developers with new tools, resources and development information. While the world of networking and the world of Java development may seem somewhat removed from each other, that’s not necessarily the case. Among the many vendors that were at JavaOne was Juniper Networks, […]

The Oracle Public Cloud was officially announced at OpenWorld, providing users with the opportunity to run Oracle Fusion Apps, Middleware, Database and Java on an Oracle managed and operated cloud infrastructure. Oracle is positioning the new services as a deployment option that enables portability and openness. The Oracle Fusion cloud apps include CRM, HR and […]

Rackspace is now moving to set up an OpenStack Foundation that will be the steward of OpenStack project. “We don’t have a foundation right now; what we’re doing is kicking off the process to get one set up,” Jonathan Bryce, chairman of the Project Policy Board for OpenStack told InternetNews.com. “Like everything else we’ve done […]

HP is expanding its FlexNetwork architecture portfolio today with new FlexFabric and FlexCampus switching gear. The new hardware is being complemented by an improved management offering that protects against mobile network threats. HP first debuted its FlexNetwork architecture in May of this year as a platform for network convergence. With the new releases, HP is […]

Making networks go faster isn’t just about having bigger pipes; it’s about moving data faster, often with the help of WAN acceleration technology. The market for WAN optimization appliances is a competitive one with multiple vendors including Riverbed, SilverPeak, Blue Coat and Cisco ally vying for share. Cisco’s Wide Area Applications Services (WAAS) appliances are […]

Oracle remains committed to Intel and to Linux even as it continues to promise the delivery of Solaris 11. That’s the message that Oracle executives delivered during a keynote at the OpenWorld conference this week. One of Oracle’s key software plays on Intel’s x86 is with Linux. Oracle Chief Corporate Architect Edward Screven noted that […]

If you’re running the Google Chrome browser, rest easy, Google just silently updated it for seven security vulnerabilities. Google Chrome stable version 14.0.835.202 is now available for Windows, Mac and Linux providing security and stability fixes as well as a new integrated version of Adobe Flash Player 11. On the security front, there were seven […]

This year, Oracle celebrated the triumphant release of Java 7 and forecast that Java 8 would follow in the summer of 2012. At JavaOne, Oracle announced that it is pushing back the release of Java 8, by approximately six months to 2013. Java 8 offers the promise of some revolutionary features for Java, and the […]

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever — because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you […]

Red Hat is acquiring the privately Gluster in an all-cash deal valued at $136 million. The deal is expected to close later this month. Gluster is the lead commercial sponsor behind the open source GlusterFS filesystem. The latest GlusterFS 3.3 release provides advances for Big Data storage like Apache Hadoop. During a press conference call […]

There is a lot of buzz around the term “big data.” It’s a topic that Oracle is now jumping into with both feet with a new big data engineered system as well as new Hadoop and NoSQL software offerings. During the database general session at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference, Andy Mendelsohn, Senior VP of Oracle’s server […]

Testing out network design and deployments has long been an effort that has required physical hardware in a bricks and mortar lab. That’s now about to change, thanks to a new Linux-powered cloud testing environment called Junosphere, being deployed by Juniper Networks. Junosphere is an on-demand cloud service for network testing and modeling. “Junosphere is […]