Sean Michael Kerner

Middleware vendor WS02 is advancing its PaaS offering this week with the release of Stratos 1.5. Statros is an open source project that is also available as service from WSO2 with Stratos Live, which is hosted on Amazon’s EC2. As opposed to simply putting a WS02 Carbon server on Amazon, Stratos provides cloud features that […]

The axe is set to drop for 6,500 employees of Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO). Cisco today announced a ‘workforce reduction’ from its global operations of 6,500 employees across all functions. Of those 6,500 employees, Cisco has reported that 2,100 employees will be leaving by way of a voluntary early retirement program. It’s not just front-line workers […]

Apple is now out with a new update patching three vulnerabilities in the iOS mobile operating system. The iOS 4.3.4 update was trigged by the disclosure earlier this month that iOS could be infected by way of a malicious PDF file. The flaw was being exploited in the wild by iOS jailbreaking tools, as well. […]

This week, virtualization leader VMware launched its vSphere 5 release, expanding the power and capabilities of the virtualization platform. Alongside that release came news of a pricing change for VMware that rivals argue could mean a significant increase in costs. VMware’s new pricing requires customers to consider and understand how much virtual memory or vRAM […]

Google’s ChromeOS is a browser-based cloud powered operating system that holds the potential to be more secure than other traditional hard disk powered operating systems. According to research from security firm Whitehat, ChromeOS has its strengths, but it also has a few weaknesses too. Matt Johansen, security researcher at WhiteHat Security detailed some high level […]

When it comes to managing on-site networking gear, you don’t necessarily need have on-site networking expertise. Networking vendor Meraki has been pushing its cloud managed networking routers as a solution since the beginning of 2011. One of the first solutions that Meraki announced was the MX50 router, which is now being replaced after being in […]

WAN Optimization vendor Silver Peak Systems is opening up its technology with a new strategy called the Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA). VXOA leverages Silver Peak’s WAN optimization technology to deliver a virtual version that can be tightly integrated with other solutions, by way of an open API and a software development kit (SDK). “What […]

Do you know what’s running on your network? When it comes to understanding and being aware of all the servers, software and clients on a network, knowing what is running is essential to ensure both security and license compliance. A new solution from Dell’s KACE division is now bringing system visibility and management down […]

While spam is still a problem, it’s not growing at the same rate it once was and my actually be on the decline, according to Cisco. In contrast, targeted attacks are on the rise which has led to the creation of new email security services that Cisco is officially announcing today. The Cisco Business Class […]

“vSphere 5 provides the resource pooling, it’s what allows you to take all of your server, storage and network resources and turn those into essentially a giant automated computer.” Paul Maritz, VMware CEO explaining what the new vSphere 5 virtualization technology is all about (ServerWatch)   “While there is much hype around the phrase […]

From the ‘Your Email is Your Password‘ files: Since the beginning of the Internet era, your email address and your ability to verify that it’s actually yours has been the lynchpin of Internet identity. You want to join a new site/service? Sure! Just verify your email address… Mozilla is now making that whole exercise easier […]

At the heart of Cisco’s cloud strategy is its Unified Computing System (UCS). At the Cisco Live user conference today, Cisco announced new extensions for the UCS that provide even more density for cloud deployments. Omar Sultan, solution manager for data center switching in the Data Center Solutions team at Cisco, told InternetNews.com that new […]