Sean Michael Kerner

Apache Drill is one of many different projects that can enable Hadoop. Drill, which defines itself as a schema-free SQL query engine, until this week had been an incubated Apache project. Tomer Shiran, Apache Drill founder, explained to Enterprise Apps Today that as a top level project, Drill now has autonomy at the Apache Software […]

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 […]

From the ‘Apache is still more popular’ files: The open-source nginx web server has emerged in recent years to become one of the most widely deployed open-source technologies on the planet. Today a new incremental version of nginx was released with the 1.7.8 milestone update. Following is the list of changes:  *) Change: now the […]

Dr. Ali Abaye, senior director, product marketing for Broadcom’s Infrastructure and Networking Group told Enterprise Networking Planet that the MGBASE-T alliance is not associated with the Cisco-led NGBASE-T alliance, thought the two efforts have similar goals. Both groups are aiming to help create and support a new Ethernet standard that bridges the gap between existing […]

In Firefox 34, Yahoo is now the default search provider for users in the U.S. while Yandex is now the default in Russia and Baidu is the default in China. The search bar itself has now also been improved to more easily enable users to use different search engines beyond just the default search provider. […]

In a dual-socket deployment, the ThunderX platform can support up to 1 TB of DDR4 server memory running at up to 2400MHz. The dual-socket server configuration also benefits from Cavium’s Coherent Processor Interconnect (CCPI) technology, making a a dual-socket system fully cache coherent. From an operating system perspective, Cavium’s MontaVista software division worked on optimizing […]

IDC’s Third Quarter 2014 Worldwide Quarterly WLAN Tracker reported year-over-year revenue growth of 7.4 percent across both enterprise and consumer market segments. The enterprise market is growing faster than the consumer side at this point with enterprise WLAN revenue growth of 9.6 percent. In contrast the consumer WLAN market only grew by 4.8 percent year-over-year. […]

In a video interview with eWEEK, Lew Tucker, vice president and CTO of Cloud Computing at Cisco, detailed his firm’s OpenStack platform efforts. Tucker commented that Cisco has been expanding its OpenStack efforts a lot more outside of networking as the adoption of OpenStack within Cisco has grown. Cisco’s first OpenStack product was the OpenStack […]

On October 6, HP announced its intention to split and become two separate companies. HP Enterprise will focus on enterprise services and technologies while HP Inc will handle the consumer business and printing. Whitman noted that over the last month, she has met with many customers, partners and employees and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. […]

The United States Postal Service (USPS) publicly admitted that it was the victim of a cyber-intrusion on Nov. 10. As it turns out, the USPS had been aware of a potential intrusion since Sept. 11, and it took several months of planning and strategic actions until the public and USPS employees were informed. Full details […]

The bottom line is that risk is present and always has been in retail. In the pre-digital processing age, carbon receipts were a risk that could have enabled fraud. Even just ordering a pizza on the phone and giving your credit card number could be a path to fraud. Vigilance has always been key to […]

Typically, an out-of-band patch update is a rare event that is reserved for severe and risky zero-day flaws, but that’s not quite what is going on with the new Adobe update. The CVE-2014-8439 vulnerability was actually first mitigated during Adobe’s regular patch Tuesday update on Oct. 14. Adobe spokesperson, Heather Edell told eWEEK that that […]