Sean Michael Kerner

After six months in a public beta, Xeround is declaring its MySQL in the cloud database generally available. Xeround integrates elements of the open source MySQL database into an elastic database built for multi-tenancy and the cloud. Xeround debuted a public beta in January and has been evolving the service over the course of 2011. […]

The Wireshark community this week is gathering for the SharkFest conference, which is a proof point for the continuing strength of the open source packet and network analyzer community. The Wireshark network analyzer is a project that has fostered a great community, as developers around the world keep adding protocol support as new technologies emerge. […]

From the ‘Lucky 13’ files: Fedora Linux distros don’t have a particularly long shelf-life. As a fast moving distro, the project doesn’t have a long term support policy. With Fedora 15 now out, the Fedora Project is closing the door Fedora 13. “Fedora 13 will reach end of life on 2011-06-24, and no further updates […]

Software vendor Embotics is aiming to deliver on the promise of private cloud virtualization management with its new V-Commander 4.0 release. The new release is targeted at the midmarket for enterprises with between 250 and 2,000 servers. It delivers new provisioning and service automation features. The V-Commander 4.0 release includes a new service catalog, approval […]

Avaya filed a Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday for an IPO that is set to raise $1 billion. Avaya’s IPO is for 20 percent of the shares in the company and will value the total company at approximately $5 billion. The IPO will mark a return to the […]

From the ‘Memory Hog‘ files: Firefox is a memory hog. There, I said it. Some of you might disagree, but the fact of the matter is that even though Firefox 4 (and soon 5) improve memory over say Firefox 3.x, it’s still a real hog. Thankfully, I’m not alone in the belief that SOMETHING must […]

WAN optimization vendor Silver Peak this week launched its latest effort to maximize data links with the NX-10000 (10K) appliance. The NX-10K has four 10 GbE interfaces and promises at least 2.5 Gbps of WAN throughput. Overall the NX-10K can handle up to 256,000 simultaneous sessions. In terms of applications that the NX-10K targets for […]

“Microsoft tried to gut the value of patents by introducing a lower standard for invalidating patents.” Loudon Owen, chairman of i4i, commenting on his company’s successful legal case against Microsoft (Datamation) “At peak we saw about a 50 percent increase in DNS query volume on IPv6.” Sean Leach, vice president of technology with Verisign’s Network […]

Back in March, Oracle publicly announced that it was discontinuing support of Oracle applications running on HP’s Intel Itanium powered servers. Now, nearly three months later, HP is pushing back, claiming Oracle has a legal obligation to continue supporting Itanium. “HP believes that Oracle’s March 22 statement to discontinue all future software development on the […]

World IPv6 Day served to raise IPv6 usage in a measurable way. One company that has a unique view into how IPv6 Day impacted IPv6 use is VeriSign. VeriSign sits at the heart of the Internet, managing root DNS servers as well as .com infrastructure. “At peak we saw about a 50 percent increase in […]