Sean Michael Kerner

“These people f—ed me over.” Former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz detailing her explicit feelings about her firing from Yahoo (Fortune)   “You know, I have access to 4 more so HIGH profile CAs, which I can issue certs from them too which I will.” The alleged attacker going by the alias ‘Comodohacker’ warning about […]

For over a decade, the open source MySQL database has been a critical component of the LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack. Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is now moving to make MySQL more attractive for Microsoft Windows users in an effort that might help it to take share from rival SQL Server. Oracle this week announced a new installer […]

Last week, multiple browser vendors issued updates in response to the exploit of the DigiNotar SSL certificate authority (CA) . As it turns out, those updates didn’t go far enough as the exploit of DigiNotar is worse than initial reports indicated. Mozilla has issued Firefox 6.0.2 as their second patch to help protected their browser […]

From the ‘Ok, maybe Kernel.org is better for Linux’ files: Earlier this week, I blogged about my hope for Linux moving permanently to Github. I’m a huge fan of github and it works well for me and tens of thousands of others. But as it turns out, it doesn’t work out to be the best […]

Technology lets small business dramatically improve efficiency and productivity. But how do you buy new technology a credit crunch when your cash flow is stretched thinner than ever? IBM today officially announced its solution to the small business credit crunch dilemma with a new billion dollar effort. IBM is opening up $1 billion in credit […]

OpenStack itself still faces some challenges, including cloud portability issues. While there are multiple vendors that provide OpenStack based cloud services, moving data across those clouds isn’t quite as easy as it should be. “OpenStack, as a community, is working on a solution to portability, starting with the image layer, through a project called OpenStack […]

Yahoo is looking for a new CEO, again. In an unexpected turn of events, former CEO Carol Bartz was fired by the Yahoo Board of Directors on Tuesday. According to reports, Bartz was unceremoniously fired over the phone. Bartz had over a year left on her contract with Yahoo. Bartz was chosen as the CEO […]

At the beginning of 2011, Intel launched a new effort to expand adoption of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). The Open FCoE effort has been active ever since and has expanded into usage for virtualization. Open FCoE is part of the recent VMware vSphere 5.0 release providing virtualization users with Fibre Channel connectivity options. “From […]

It’s one thing to build a scalable filesystem. It’s quite another to build a scalable company. Gluster founder and CTO AB Periasamy has the challenge of trying to do both. In an interview with InternetNews.com, Periasamy explained where he sees both Gluster, the company, and Gluster, the filesystem headed in the future. Gluster is an […]

From the ‘Kernel.org Hack Fallout’ files: Last week’s hack of kernel.org is an event that should never have happened. Yes it’s true that the nature of Linux development means that the kernel itself isn’t at much risk for the actual hack. The fact that kernel.org maintainers were unaware of the hack for 17 days is […]

The VXLAN approach is intended to make it easier for network administrators to manage virtualization. Prashant Gandhi, director of product management for the Cisco Server, Access and Virtualization Technology Group told InternetNews.com that Cisco has been working on the VXLAN innovation for quite some time. Gandhi said that for applications running in the cloud, IT […]

At the core of all Linux based operating systems is the Linux kernel, which is developed by a global community of developers, with the kernel.org website as a key piece of infrastructure. Kernel.org maintainers admitted on Wednesday that their infrastructure had been hacked via a compromised user credential. According to Kernel.org’s disclosure, the attackers were […]