Sean Michael Kerner

InternetNews.com Week in Preview Podcast (Listen Now) Have you ever wondered how they select keynotes? What’s the deal with Openflow? Heyman joins InternetNews.com Senior Editor, Sean Michael Kerner to discuss what the major themes will be at Interop Las Vegas 2011. InternetNews.com’s editors break down the stories behind the stories to bring you a head […]

Helicopter hovering above Abbottabad at 1AM (is a rare event). Sohaib Atha a 33-year-old IT consultant in Abbottabad live tweets the U.S Navy Seals attack against Osama bin Laden, without knowing it ( Twitter) “Conditions are harsh and they don’t have a social life. Their life is just working in a factory and that is […]

This week, Riverbed (NASDAQ:RVBD) updated its product lines to integrate packet-based transaction analysis. The packet analysis technology comes by way of Riverbed’s acquisition of CACE, the lead commercial sponsor of the open source Wireshark packet sniffing project. Yoav Eliat, director of product marketing for Cascade at Riverbed, told InternetNews.com that software changes have also been […]

Internap Network Services Corporation (NASDAQ:INAP) is set to provide public cloud services for both VMware and the open source OpenStack cloud platforms. By providing both stacks, Internap is aiming to provide more choice and data resiliency for cloud customers. “CIOs’ reception to the dual-hypervisor stack is positive, most have virtualized internally using VMware as a […]

From the ‘Onion Router‘ files: The Tor onion router, privacy project is planning its own version of Firefox. Some people may call this a fork – I don’t. Tor as an onion router (or set of chained, private, maybe-anonymized proxies, if you’re lucky) is implemented in Firefox by way of the Torbutton add-on. According to […]

Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is changing the way it is organized, in an effort to streamline its operating model. The networking giant today announced what it called “significant changes” to its business structure, which includes changes to its sales, services and engineering operations. Cisco’s operational changes follow the company’s exit from the Flip camera business last month […]

Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) is expanding its cloud initiatives with new Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) effort. The new CloudForms platform is the IaaS piece providing compute resource management. CloudForms also includes application management tools that will help bring applications into the cloud as well as manage applications in the cloud. The other key part of […]

Though IPv4 addresses are now an endangered species, most of the world has not yet moved to IPv6. One way to help ease the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is with DNS64, which is now being included on hardware from DDI (DNS, DHCP,IPAM)vendor Infoblox. DNS64 provides a translation layer for the AAAA record into an […]

Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) has faced intense scrutiny this year over its handling of multiple open source projects. In the case of the Hudson continuous integration system for Java, members of the community forked the project after disagreeing with Oracle. Oracle remains committed to Hudson and today announced that it was moving the project to the open […]

Brocade (NASDAQ:BRCD) is building a new cloud stack solution called CloudPlex, with the goal of simplifying the acquisition of cloud resources for customers with Virtual Compute Blocks. According to Brocade, CloudPlex Virtual Compute Blocks are different than the vBlock solution offered by Cisco. The vBlock is a joint effort of Cisco, EMC and VMware. Brocade’s […]

Avaya is expanding its networking portfolio with a new Virtual Service Platform (VSP) switch and a new Virtual Provisioning Service (VPS). The VSP 7000 is a 24 port, 10 GbE switch. Avaya has also provided a high-speed fabric interconnect that provides 625 Gbps capabilities across racks. The VSP can provide in excess of 5 terabits […]