Sean Michael Kerner

Cisco announced its intention to acquire Neohapsis this week, in a deal that is set to close in the second quarter of Cisco’s fiscal 2015 year. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. Neohapsis offers a variety of services, including application, cloud, compliance, mobile and network security services as well as IT […]

A year ago, The Pirate Bay was also under legal attack, but instead of being shut down entirely, the site just shifted locations. The Pirate Bay had been using a domain in the Dutch territory of Saint Maarten, ThePirateBay.sx, which then shifted to the Ascension Island domain of ThePirateBay.ac. With the most recent shutdown, there […]

Security startup Area 1 Security today announced that it has raised $8 million in a Series A funding round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In total, Area 1 has now raised $10.5 million in funding as the company aims to build out a new type of technology to help organizations defend themselves against […]

Snappy Ubuntu is a version of the Ubuntu Core, which is a minimal Ubuntu Linux operating system. “The command line utility that handles package and update management in Snappy Ubuntu is — snappy,” Kirkland explained to eWEEK. Snappy Ubuntu is intended to be an optimized base for Docker container applications, which are typically referred to […]

From the ‘Hello Firefox What’s New?’ files: Firefox 35 Beta is now out for testing and it includes a few interesting new features that both end-users and developers will likely benefit from. For end-users, the Firefox Hello WebRTC system is set to get a chat room type conversations model, which looks interesting. From a performance […]

Analyst firm Gartner reported that third quarter global server revenues grew by 1.7 percent year-over-year to $12.6 billion. In contrast, rival analyst firm IDC reported that third quarter revenue grew by 4.8 percent year-over-year to $12.7 billion. In terms of server shipments, Gartner estimated global server shipments of 2.5 million units, for a one percent year-over-year […]

According to the November 2014 Web Server Survey from Netcraft, Nginx powers 20 percent of the busiest sites on the Internet. Nginx Inc. provides commercial support for the open-source Nginx Web server as well as selling the commercial Nginx Plus Web server. The Nginx Plus product provides users with additional enterprise features for server deployment. […]

In 2014 a new trend has emerged, one that favors mid-speed standards falling between existing Ethernet standards. At one end is the 25 Gbps effort that will serve markets where 10 Gbps isn’t enough and 100 Gbps is too much. At the other of the spectrum is 2.5 Gbps, which will serve markets where 1 […]

In total, Microsoft is fixing 24 unique Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) this month, across seven security advisories. Of those seven security advisories, Microsoft rated only three as critical. One of the critical advisories is MS14-080, which patches 14 CVEs in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser. The December CVE count in IE is actually […]

Fedora 21 is the product of a new effort known as Fedora Next that aims to reshape and rethink how the community Linux distribution is built and deployed. With Fedora 21, instead of a single monolithic release, there are now three primary releases of Fedora, each targeting specific deployment use-cases. The three Fedora 21 releases […]

The new Cloud Foundry Foundation benefits from the support of EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Pivotal, SAP and VMware, who are all platinum members of the new effort. In total there are over 40 member companies joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation. The Cloud Foundry Foundation will be run as a Linux Foundation Collaborative project that leverages […]

Mesosphere  announced it has raised $36 million in a Series B round of funding, to fuel its efforts in supporting and extending the open source Apache Mesos technology platform. The B round brings the total capital raised to $48.8 million. Apache Mesos is an open source project that enables an application to harness the power […]