Sean Michael Kerner

The question of how and where enterprises should move to IPv4 was tackled in a panel discussion at the Interop conference in Las Vegas this week. While IPv6 traffic historically has been minimal, there has been a recent surge of activity due to the exhaustion of the free pool of IPv4 address space. In terms […]

Adobe Flash Player 10.3 is now available, fixing at least 11 security flaws, one of which is already been exploited in the wild. The Flash 10.3 update also includes enhanced privacy protections, providing an additional layer of security for users. According to Adobe, the 11 security flaws affect Flash Player 10.2 and earlier versions on […]

“People ask me, how did you screw that one up?” John Curran, President and CEO of ARIN, speaking at Interop, explaining why IPv6 is not compatible with IPv4. ( EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet) “In one year, we’ve shipped more data than in the entire history of the Internet and this is just the beginning.” Kirk Skaugen, vice president […]

From the ‘Linux Everywhere’ files: LAS VEGAS. Interop is one of the largest non-vendor conferences still around. All those conference goers connect over the Xirrus Wi-Fi array network that is deployed at the show. Have you ever wondered what’s inside of a Xirrus Wi-Fi array? Sure there are some Atheros chips, but there is also […]

Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group, told Interop attendees that infrastructure and server costs need to come down more and that people are worried about power, security manageability and lock-in issues. “We would need 45 new nuclear power plants to power the next billion at current power usage levels,” […]

Steve Bandrowczak Vice President and General Manager at Avaya Data Solutions delivered a keynote address at Interop this week on the consumerization of IT. “Our users today are driving more of the IT decisions,” Bandrowczak said. “Is this anarchy or it progress?” Bandrowczak said that as a CIO he used to have big training programs […]

As opposed to traditional file system block-based storage that uses file and directory hierarchies, object-based storage is a distributed system. While object-based storage has some inherent benefits, it also has some drawbacks, too. In a panel at the Interop conference in Las Vegas, object storage vendors explained the pros and cons. “The use case for […]

One of the opportunities that cloud provides enterprises with is choice of provider, but with so many alternatives, how do you make a choice? A panel of cloud vendors including Engine Yard, Microsoft, Rackspace and Verizon tackled the issue of how to choose a cloud provider in a panel at the Interop conference this week. […]

From the ‘Linux Everywhere‘ files: LAS VEGAS. OpenFlow is a next generation approach to running flatter networks. There is a LOT of chatter about OpenFlow at the Interop conference this year and there is even an OpenFlow lab as part of the Network Operations Center. The majority of the demo clients running OpenFlow were — […]

LAS VEGAS. Things are looking up in the networking business. At IDC’s annual breakfast meeting held at the Interop conference in Las Vegas, the analyst firm detailed their projections for the networking industry moving forward. Rohit Mehra IDC’s Director of Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, told the Interop audience that his firm is forecasting that the Network […]

From the ‘Not a Surprise‘ Files: Ubuntu is moving away from the open source Eucalyptus platform in favor of OpenStack. I’m not surprised. OpenStack is now only a tech preview in Natty 11.04, but the massive momentum behind OpenStack is undeniable. OpenStack has a large ecosystem of over 50 contributing members including NASA, Rackspace, Dell, […]

According to Citrix CEO Mark Templeton, the consumerization of IT is the most powerful force ever in IT transformation. Templeton’s comments came during his keynote at the Interop trade show in Las Vegas. “We think it will force more change over the next 10 years than any other technical or business trend,” Templeton said. “It’s […]