Sean Michael Kerner

In June of 2010, Cisco CEO John Chambers announced the Cius, an Android based tablet that was supposed to be the first enterprise grade tablet. Fast forward to 2011 and the Cius still is not yet generally available, but that’s about to change. Cisco today announced that the Cius will become generally available in July […]

SANS is out this week with its annual Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors report for 2011. According to a number of security industry professionals it’s a list that isn’t necessarily highlighting new trends, but rather than old problem continue to persist. At the top of the list for 2011 is SQL Injection, which should […]

From the ‘Buzz This‘ files: Sometimes Google really amazes me with its shortsightedness. This week, Google announced its new social networking service Google Plus, but you’re not going to find a review from me, Google isn’t letting me in. Google plus is a minus for me. After all these years you would have thought that […]

Alcatel-Lucent this week announced the FP3 chip, which is a 400 Gigabits per second network chip. The FP3 is the successor to the 100 Gigabits per second FP2, which was announced in March of 2008 The FP3 has 288 array cores, while the FP2 has 112 cores. By having a 400 Gigabit chip, Alcatel-Lucent will […]

Enterprise PHP vendor Zend is now testing a new version of its Zend Server in an effort to improve PHP application deployment automation. Zend Server 5.5 will be the first major update to the PHP middleware platform since the 5.0 release in October of 2009. The Zend Server 5.5 release has a key focus on […]

Enterprise middleware vendor WS02 is launching  a Complex Event Processing (CEP) system, powered by open source technology. “The CEP engine is all about taking events and spotting patterns in them,” Paul Fremantle, WSO2 co-founder and CTO, told InternetNews.com. “An example could be, did I get more than three credit card transaction within a minute, which […]

The John the Ripper open source password cracker security research tool is getting a performance boost. The specific improvements that have been made deal with performance gains for cracking data encryption standard (DES) based password hashes. According to Openwall, the DES improvements have led to a 17 percent performance boost for cracking password hashes. The […]

From the ‘Firefox is Enterprise-Ready’ files: There has been a lot of FUD written in recent days about Firefox’s rapid release process and what that means to Enterprise IT. The gist of the FUD is that Firefox 5 represents some kind of issue because it’s not called Firefox 4. oooh Really? So if I understand […]

Red Hat is updating its real time version of Enterprise Linux this week with the release of MRG 2.0 (Messaging, Real-Time, Grid). The new MRG release come as Red Hat ramps up its KVM virtualization efforts with the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVF). The new MRG 2.0 release is built around a deterministic real time core […]

Commerical open source network monitoring vendor Zenoss is rebranding and expanding its enterprise offerings this week. The new Zenoss Service Dynamics Suite enables network admins to monitor physical and virtual assets across a network. The system also provides service impact management to enable admins to do root cause analysis. “We have had the core resource […]

Oracle’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) software business remained strong in its most recent quarter, but hardware sales came in shy of Wall Street estimates. Oracle reported its fourth quarter fiscal 2011 earnings late Thursday, with revenues of $10.8 billion, a 13 percent year-over-year gain. Net income was up by 27 percent to $3.9 billion. For the full […]

“ICANN has opened the Internet’s naming system to unleash the global human imagination.” Rod Beckstrom, President and Chief Executive Officer of ICANN  commenting on the opening up to the new generic Top Level Domains (EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet)   “If you virtualize something that looks like a piece of crap, who cares?” Pentaho CEO, Richard Daley commenting on […]