Sean Michael Kerner

“It’s a setback for Oracle, in that the judge just wiped a billion dollars off their judgment. But $272 million is still a big number.” Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman commenting on a court decision striking down a $1.3 billion award from SAP to Oracle (San Jose Mercury News)   “It’s also useful […]

WAN optimization vendor Silver Peak this week announced its latest virtual WAN optimization technology – a new solution that can deliver as much as 1 Gbps of WAN throughput. The new VRX-8 is built on top of Silver Peak Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) that was officially announced last month. “The VRX-8 is a gigabit […]

While virtualization is all the rage this week, with the VMworld conference going on, it’s important to remember virtualization relies on underlying physical hardware to be successful. HP this week debuted three VirtualSystem for VMware solutions that pair server, storage and networking hardware with services for VMware virtualization deployments. The three models of the VirtualSystem […]

In the PC era, users were tied to their physical machines running specific operating systems. The new era of mobile and cloud computing changes all that and puts IT into what Apple co-founder Steve Jobs called, the post PC era. Virtualization giant VMware is now firmly positioning itself for the post-PC era with new virtual […]

From the ‘What? They’re Still at It?!’ files: I really had thought that we’d heard the last of SCO, which is is why I was surprised today. SCO was defeated again this week, this time it was an appeal (likely the final appeal) in the Novell vs. SCO case over who owns the Unix copyrights. […]

The next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux isn’t scheduled for general availability for another couple of years, making this the right time for Red Hat to get started on its development. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 is now starting to take shape as the Linux vendor begins the multi-year process that will […]

SSL is supposed to protect web users by encrypting data. When it comes to trusting an SSL certificate, Web browsers rely on authoritative certificate authorities (CA) that validate the authenticity of a given SSL certificate. But what happens when a CA issues a fraudulent SSL certificate? This week, certificate authority DigiNotar was found to have […]

Users of VMware’s virtualization are usually familiar with vMotion which enables virtual machines to move from one physical machine to another. HP is taking the same basic concept and applying it to storage. HP’s Peer Motion technology is being expanded with new features to enable storage mobility and federation across devices. “What Peer Motion gives […]

VMware (NYSE: VMW) is taking aim at the database market with its new vFabric Data Director technology. The new technology will provide database-as-a-service capabilities by way of vFabric Postgres, which is a VMware-supported version of the open source PostgreSQL database. The vFabric technology effort began in 2010 as an approach to help enable applications for […]

The VMware cloud is getting bigger. VMware is expanding its vCloud program, enabling enterprises to buy and move their virtualized assets across multiple service providers. The vCloud is VMware’s program for service providers to run VMware virtualized clouds. The vCloud program was announced last year and is now expanding to enable virtual machine movement and […]

Managing the open source PostgreSQL database has often been the domain of command line tools and scripts. That’s now about to change thanks to the release of Postgres Enterprise Manger from commercial PostgreSQL firm, EnterpriseDB. EnterpriseDB is also taking PostgreSQL beyond the confines of traditional data center deployments with a new Postgres Plus Cloud Server […]

The Apache HTTP web server is the most widely deployed Web server on the Internet today and it’s at risk from a serious denial of service (DoS) attack. The ‘Apache Killer’ tool is now out in the wild enabling attackers to consume all of the memory on a Web server creating a DoS condition. Apache […]