Sean Michael Kerner

Cloud computing presents a new model for data delivery and data storage and it’s a new model that is set to soon benefit from the Ceph filesystem. The open source Ceph filesystem is a distributed filesystem that is intended to be massively scalable. The system was initially created by Sage Weil, who is also the […]

One of the biggest areas of concern that helped to delay Oracle’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) acquisition of Sun last year was the open source MySQL database. As it turns out, Oracle has accelerated MySQL development, and this week previewed its next generation. MySQL 5.6 is now available as a preview and provides an enhanced InnoDB storage […]

Yet another big name IT vendor is joining OpenStack. HP announced this week that it was going to be joining the open source OpenStack cloud infrastructure project. OpenStack is a year-old project originally started by NASA and Rackspace for delivering a cloud computing and storage platform. During the course of the past year, OpenStack has […]

The domain name business continues to be a strong one for VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN). The Internet infrastructure vendor reported second quarter fiscal 2011 results this week and announced that its CEO was leaving the company. For the quarter, VeriSign reported Net Revenue of $190 million up by 13 percent on a year-over-year basis. The company reported […]

From the ‘Clone Wars‘ files: Scientific Linux 6.1 is now available providing users with a stable reliable Free (as in Beer) version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1. Red Hat released RHEL 6.1 in May, providing improved driver support and hardware enablement. It also includes a preview of a technology preview of Red Hat Enterprise […]

“With regards to the competitive environment, clearly we’ve got a distracted competitor.” Symantec CEO Enrique Salem commenting on rival security vendor McAfee (InternetNews).   “The more specific you can be about your requirements and your deliverables the more chance you’ll have for success.” J. Shawn Prince, PMP, Technology Services (TS), Operations & Infrastructure Manager […]

OpenStack is getting a big vote of confidence from Dell. Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is launching new commercial support and services for the open source cloud computing platform. OpenStack started a year ago with code contributions from NASA and Rackspace and has since grown to more than 88 member companies, including Dell. The Dell OpenStack Cloud […]

Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) is starting off its fiscal 2012 with a solid report. Symantec reported its first quarter fiscal 2012 earnings late Wednesday, with first quarter revenue up year-over-year by 15 percent to $1.65 billion. Net Income was reported at $172 million up from $161 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2011. Moving forward Symantec […]

From the ‘Life After Sun’ files:   There were alot of people that weren’t sure if this day would ever come. Today Java SE 7 finally hit general availability, marking the first major Java SE release since the release of Java SE 6 back in 2006. Yes Java had stalled a bit under Sun and […]

The Internet keeps getting faster, year after year. The first quarter 2011 State of the Internet study from Akamai is reporting that global broadband speed are continuing to rise. For the first quarter Akamai reported that the average global broadband speed was 2.1 Mbps for a 23 percent year-over-year gain. In terms of countries, South […]

There are a lot of different points of entry and attack in a modern enterprise IT network environment. In an effort to help test and identify security weakness, security vendor Rapid 7 this week released Metasploit 4.0 advancing both the commercial and open source version of their penetration testing framework. Metasploit 4.0 marks a significant […]

While networking innovations continue to come from Juniper Networks, the market for those innovations could be slowing down in the second half of this year. Juniper reported their second quarter fiscal 2011 results late Tuesday with net revenues coming in a $1.12 billion for a 15 percent year-over-year increase. Net Income was reported at $115.6 […]