Sean Michael Kerner

According to Cisco General Counsel Mark Chandler, the two lawsuits filed by Cisco take aim at “Arista’s repeated and pervasive copying of key inventions in Cisco products.” Specifically, Cisco is alleging infringement on 14 different U.S. patents. Chandler noted that all 14 patents listed in the lawsuits were invented by former Cisco employees who now […]

Clothing retailer Bebe has publicly admitted that its payment systems were breached in a security incident last month. The breach, which occurred Nov. 8-26, involved payment cards used in Bebe stores in the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands and did not impact purchases made in Canada or online. According to Bebe, […]

In May, Bitly publicly admitted that its service was compromised in a malicious attack. For Bitly CTO Rob Platzer, there were two big takeaways from the incident. The first was that transparency is key. “Our users appreciated the level of transparency that we maintained throughout the entire incident,” he said. The second key takeaway was […]

Acquia, the lead commercial sponsor behind the open-source Drupal content management system (CMS) is rolling out a new service to help secure Drupal sites. Drupal is a popular open-source CMS and is used to power many of the world’s leading sites including the WhiteHouse and weather.com. The Acquia Cloud service provides a hosted, commercially supported […]

Since Docker got its start 18 months ago, the Docker Engine has been the core of the project, providing a container approach for application virtualization. The Docker Engine is now being joined by the Docker Machine for increased container deployment portability, Docker Swarm for clustering and Docker Compose for application assembly services. “We’re moving from […]

Cisco is partnering with IBM for storage as part of new reference architecture designs for the Cisco UCS server platform. The new solution is called the VersaStack and includes the IBM Storwize V7000 as the storage system for a UCS deployment. The entire solution has been initially tested for the deployment of virtual infrastructure using […]

Facebook announced a new partnership to help its users stay secure and malware-free. It’s all part of a continued effort from the social networking giant to do its part to keep the Internet safe. The new partnership is with security vendor ESET and will now help Facebook and its users to find and detect potential […]

The promise of the Open Compute Project’s networking effort is a “white box” for networking gear: networking equipment built on open hardware specifications that are not tied to specific operating systems. Juniper historically has built its own hardware, with its own silicon, and then used its own JUNOS operating system on top. Though Open Compute […]

Over the course of the past year, Docker has become a much-hyped technology for application virtualization using containers, winning the support of major IT vendors including VMware, Microsoft, Amazon and Red Hat, among others. While the open-source Docker engine provides a core set of capabilities, a market ecosystem of complementary and enabling technologies has emerged. […]

Linux is also growing its use for mission critical workloads. In 2011, the Linux Foundation found that 65 percent of organizations were deploying Linux and 45 percent were deploying Windows. In 2014, 79 percent said that they were deploying Linux and 36 percent indicated that they had Windows deployments. Looking specifically at Linux deployments 67 […]

Hewlett-Packard on December 2 announced the ArcSight Enterprise Security Management (ESM) 6.8c release, providing users with a number of new and enhanced features. Updates to ArcSight ESM—the security information and event management (SIEM) technology that HP gained via a $1.5 billion acquisition in 2010—include the Correlation Optimized Retention and Retrieval (CORR) real-time correlation engine. The […]

OpenSOC at first glance might appear to be a SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) system but according to Annie Ballew, Solutions Architect in the Cisco Security Business Group, it isn’t a SIEM technology in the traditional sense. Rather Ballew said that OpenSOC should be considered as a big data technology for security analytics. “Our […]