Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Great Open Source Opportunities‘ files: I’ve been following the open source OpenStack cloud effort since it was first announced in June of 2010. I mean come on, how many times does a tech journalist like me get to interview NASA about enterprise open source tech? Over the course of the last year, I’ve […]

From the ‘Operational Excellence‘ files: Running the global IT organization for the world’s largest networking company is likely no easy task. It’s the role of Cisco CIO, Rebecca Jacoby and one that she handles without affecting her sleep. I recently had the chance to sit down with Jacoby to get her insight into how she […]

Following the acquisition of Novell by Attachmate, a number of former Novell technologies have been realigned with new business units. One such technology is Novell’s BSM product, Novell Operations Center which is now at its’ 5.0 release. Michele Hudnall, BSM solution manager at Novell explained to InternetNews.com that the 5.0 release of Operations Center has […]

“This was not an overnight success by any means.” Eric Risley, founder of Architect Partners, a technology merger-and- acquisition advisory firm in Menlo Park, California commenting on the first day rise of LinkedIN’s IPO price. (Bloomberg) “I really was struggling with the decision of whether I wanted to cut a final release at all: it […]

From the ‘Nothing to Look at‘ files: Google has upped the version number for Chrome (again). We’re now at Chrome 13.0.767.1 for Windows, Mac, Linux in the dev-channel. Yes, that means the Chrome 12 is likely to be finalized become stable before Memorial Day. Google has this bad habit of sharing very little in their […]

Linux founder, Linus Torvalds has released the third new Linux kernel of 2011. The 2.6.39 kernel follows the 2.6.38 kernel that debuted in March. In terms of new features, the 2.6.39 kernel includes a new block device plugging model. The new plugging model is based on a per-thread approach and is intended to prevent code […]

Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) is updating its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform with a new 6.1 release (RHEL). The RHEL 6.1 release provide improvements to networking connectivity, virtualization, performance and hardware support. RHEL 6.1 also includes a technology preview of Red Hat Enterprise Identity (IPA) services. IPA is based on the open source FreeIPA project […]

VMware (NYSE: VMW) announced its new Horizon App Manager service this week. App Manager is a hosted cloud service that helps enterprises bridge their enterprise identity systems with cloud apps. Horizon App Manager includes an on-premise Enterprise Connector that runs on VMware ESX, connecting to an enterprise’s authentication systems including ActiveDirectory. The Enterprise Connector then […]

Security researchers from Ulm University, have reported that Google’s ClientLogin protocol can be used for an impersonation attack on Google services. The researchers explained in their report that ClientLogin is an authentication mechanism used by Android apps. The ClientLogin uses an authentication token (authToken) which is passed to Google services enabling access to user accounts. […]

One element of the former Novell Linux business that has been disrupted in recent weeks is the Mono project. Mono is a Novell led effort to provide an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET framework. Attachmate recently laid off the U.S. workforce for Mono, which has led Mono project founder Miguel de Icaza to form […]

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) reported its first quarter fiscal 201 earnings on Tuesday afternoon, showing strength in its enterprise business units. For the quarter, Dell reported revenue of $15 billion, which is a 1 percent year-over-year increase. GAAP Net Income was reported at $945 million which is a 177 percent increase over the first quarter of […]

The first new Perl release of 2011 is now available, providing users of the open source language with improved Unicode, IPv6 and exception handling. Perl 5.14 also aims to be a more efficient version of Perl with the promise of using less memory and CPU than previous releases. Hobbs noted that he didn’t have exact […]