Sean Michael Kerner

The first quarter of Google’s fiscal 2011 marks not only the beginning of a new year for Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), but also the beginning of new leadership. As was announced during the company’s fourth quarter 2010 earnings call, Google co-founder Larry Page is now the CEO. Page is coming into the leadership at a good time […]

Remember when LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) was enough to run just about anything? Times have changed. In an effort to help keep up with change, services vendors SkySQL is now out with a new reference architecture for MySQL to help enable modern scalable deployments. Kaj Arno executive vice president of products at SkySQL, told InternetNews.com that the […]

Are tablets ready for the enterprise? Gartner Research Vice-President, David Willis detailed his views on tablets in the enterprise during a live webcast event this week. According to Willis, by 2013, 80 percent of businesses will support a workforce using tablets. Willis noted that there is a misconception that tablets are consumption-only devices. “In truth […]

When a technology company goes bankrupt and divests its assets, where does all the money go? That’s the question that is now being asked of Nortel Networks. Nortel once a high-flying telecommunications and networking vendor declared bankruptcy in January of 2009. The company has been divesting its assets ever since, generating billions. Though Nortel has […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM)and Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM)are partnering on new solutions to help accelerate datacenter applications. As part of the solution, enterprises will need an IBM’s Websphere DataPower Edge Appliance that sits on the customer premise. The appliance integrates with the Akamai global delivery network. “What is unique is that the product offerings are managed services […]

Novell (NASAQ: NOVL) this week announced plans to extend the amount of time it provides support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) releases. The extended support comes as Novell releases the last Service Pack update for SLES 10. SLES 10 first debuted in 2006 and has had three previous service pack updates. SLES 10 SP […]

Xeround, which develops a multi-tenant cloud version of MySQL, now has an autoscaling solution to help meet the challenges of unpredictable demand. Razi Sharir, CEO of Xeround, noted that many cloud providers already provide scaling for applications by adding additional servers and load balancers. “In contrast, scaling the database in the cloud is much more […]

VMware (NYSE: VMW) is continuing its move into the cloud. This week, VMware announced the new Cloud Foundry open source project. Cloud Foundry is intended to be a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) play, enabling multiple clouds, frameworks and application services. “Cloud Foundry rides one layer above the IaaS, so we can abstract away the PaaS engine from […]

Can you identify an attack vulnerability in real-time, right down to the line of code where the flaw occurs? That’s the goal of the new HP Fortify Real-Time Hybrid Analysis solution. According to HP, the solution is able observe the attack and identify if for example a SQL Injection attack is occurring. The solution can […]

From the ‘Bad Ideas’ files: I’ve never been a fan of Flock, the ‘social’ web browser. Personally, I’ve long argued that Flock is little more than an overlay. At first Flock was an overlay of social add-ons to Firefox, then it moved to Chrome. Now it’s moving to the graveyard of bad ideas. Zynga acquired […]

One year ago, Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) announced its new CRS-3 core router. According to Cisco, over the last year, over 80 customer have adopted the new platform. The total capacity of the CRS-3’s now in deployment adds up to 7.5 petabits per second. The company has also said that both AT&T and Comcast are CRS-3 customers. […]