Sean Michael Kerner

Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) announced today that it is restructuring its consumer business, ending some product lines and consolidating others. The overall goal is to re-focus Cisco on its core corporate priorities of routing, switching, collaboration and enterprise video. Cisco will be taking a pre-tax charge of $300 million in connection with the restructuring and it also […]

From the ‘No Nattys Here‘ files: The Fedora community has voted on the name for the next major release of this Linux distribution. There were some 2,204 votes cast for the winner… Verne Yes, Verne. I personally had thought that, Beefy Miracle would win, but that name only ended up with 1,662 votes. Beefy Miracle […]

Adobe wants to help developers build for mobile platforms. This week, Adobe launched the new Flex 4.5 and Flash Builder 4.5 to help enable developers to build applications for Android, Blackberry and iOS mobile platforms. Adobe has also partnered with PHP vendor Zend, to help bring PHP apps to mobile platforms as well. “Using the […]

From the ‘This is Not Hollywood, It’s Real Life‘ files: Thanks to the movie, The Social Network, most of us are familiar with story of how the Winklevoss twins feel that Mark Zuckerberg swindled them. Now we all know that Facebook is built on open source technologies, but it’s not the tech that the Winklevoss’ […]

Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) announced today its’ intention to acquire Global Crossing Limited (NASDAQ: GLBC). The deal is valued at approximately $3 billion and will create a new network services platform that spans the globe. The acquisition is a stock-for-stock transaction with Global Crossing shareholders receiving 16, Level 3 common stock shares for […]

At long last, Carrier Grade Linux 5.0 (CGL) has been finalized. The new CGL 5.0 specification is all about ensuring that Linux meets the needs of carriers and Network Equipment Providers. CGL 5.0 includes new requirements for high availability, especially filesystem reliability and disaster recovery, data collection and reporting. There are also additional requirements for […]

Facebook wants to open up IT data center technology with its new OpenCompute.org effort. The goal is to help both Facebook as well as others to build more efficient data centers. “By releasing Open Compute Project technologies as open hardware, our goal is to develop servers and data centers following the model traditionally associated with […]

Intel this week debuted its next generation Westmere-EX server chips which is beign embraced by a long list of server vendors including HP, IBM, Dell and Cisco. HP is unique among its peers in that it also supports Intel’s Itanium processors as well. “With the Intel Xeon E7 (aka “Westmere EX’) announcement, Intel is adding […]

Making security scans faster isn’t always about having faster hardware, it’s also about having faster software too. This week, security vendor Rapid7 released NeXpose 4.11, the latest version of its security vulnerability management solution. The new release includes an updated PostgreSQL 9.0 database which helps to speed up operations. “In addition to upgrading the database […]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) had a busy year in 2010. New security was implemented to help protect the Internet and new Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) were finally approved. ICANN sits at the heart of the Internet, helping to oversee the domain name infrastructure and helps to keep the Internet a […]

Want to run your .NET app on an Android phone? Thanks to Novell, now you can. Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL) this week announced Mono for Android. Mono is the Novell led open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET framework. The new Mono for Android effort follows Novell’s previous MonoTouch effort which enables .NET for Apple iOS devices. Novell’s […]