Sean Michael Kerner

Dell announced a number of new networking products this week at the Interop trade show in Las Vegas including the PowerConnect M8024-k Ethernet switch. Larry Hart, Senior Director, Marketing at Dell Networking told InternetNews.com that the M8024-k can support up to 24 ports of 10 GbE. The new switch also supports Dell’s virtual NIC technology, […]

Rebecca Jacoby has been at Cisco for the last 16 years and has been the CIO for just over four years. During an in-depth discussion at the Interop trade show in Las Vegas with press and analysts, Jacoby explained how she tackles the role of CIO and what her organization is doing to move the […]

The Interop networking show in Las Vegas has a heavy focus on the cloud this year. It’s a focus that Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is delivering on with a pair of announcements made at the show this week. The company is introducing the Cisco Flex 7500 Series Cloud Controller as well as providing cloud security for its […]

From the ‘Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out‘ files: For the last few weeks, I’ve been trying to lineup a meeting with David Yen EVP at Juniper and the man behind Juniper’s Qfabric vision. Yen was scheduled to deliver a ‘visionary’ keynote at Interop this afternoon, but he didn’t make it. […]

LAS VEGAS. How is the cloud like email? Vinton Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google took the keynote stage at the Interop trade show today. Cerf recounted for the audience how the early days of the Internet are similar to the early days of the cloud. Back in the 1980’s, email systems […]

LAS VEGAS. There is no love lost between Cisco and HP. During a keynote at the Interop conference in Las Vegas, Dave Donatelli, Executive VP and General Manager, Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking at HP detailed his company’s networking approach as being an alternative to Cisco. “Competition speeds innovation,” Donatelli said. “Legacy networks need transformation.” […]

HP has a new architecture for networking called, FlexNetworking. Kash Shaikh, Director of Marketing at HP Networking, told InternetNews.com that as part of the FlexNetworking rollout, HP is announcing the A10500, a new core switch evolved from the former 3Com product lineup. The A10500 provides up to 2.56 Tbps of capacity in one chassis. HP […]

According to VeriSign (NASDAQ:VRSN), DDoS attacks have gone mainstream with 63 percent of survey respondents getting hit at least once and 11 percent getting attacked more than six times. Going a step further,VeriSign asked about downtime incidents. Just over half of VeriSign’s survey respondents had some kind of downtime, though only 33 percent was attributable […]

The annual Interop Las Vegas conference kicks off this week, showcasing the latest and greatest in networking technologies. Vendors big and small will fill the exhibit hall and the keynote stage to discuss what they’re doing to move networking forward. According to Interop General Manager, Lenny Heyman, this year Interop is loaded up on the […]

This past week, development and language tools vendor ActiveState announced their Stackato PaaS, based on the open source VMware Cloud Foundry project. Stackato initially supports perl and python, two languages for which ActiveState has commercial support and tooling products. From an ActiveState perspective, Stackato can be leveraged as part of a build and deploy solution. […]

The open source Metasploit vulnerability testing framework got a major overhaul last week with the release of Metasploit 3.7. The Metasploit 3.7 release provides an enhanced session tracking backend that is intended to improve performance. Metasploit 3.7 also provides over 35 new exploit modules for security researchers to test, including new ones designed to test […]

From the ‘Great Guys‘ files: The very first person that I ever spoke with about Ubuntu was Matt Zimmerman. Zimmerman happily helped a hapless journo (me) in IRC no less, when I first started to write about Ubuntu back in 2005. Ubuntu didn’t have real PR at the time, but Zimmerman was there as CTO […]