Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Kernel Obfuscation‘ files: There is no company on Earth that contributes more to the Linux kernel than Red Hat. That said, Red Hat has recently come under some scrutiny for the way it packages the kernel in RHEL 6 – some mis-informed people have gone so far as to question whether or not […]

From a financial perspective, 2011 is not starting off particularly well for enterprise software vendor Novell. The company released its first quarter fiscal 2011 financial results this week, reporting a decline in revenues and a net loss for the quarter. Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL) did not host an analyst call to discuss its earnings, as the company […]

From the ‘I Did Not Know That‘ files: Firefox 4 is nearly done and one of the first things that most users are likely to notice occurs right at the start-up. Firefox 4 starts faster than any previous version of Firefox. I recently visited Mozilla’s Toronto office and got some really great insight into how […]

Moving data from point A to point B in a service provider network usually involves two distinct networks, one optical and the other IP. In an effort to help converge optical and IP networks, Juniper Networks is rolling out a new Converged Supercore Architecture. At the center of the Supercore is a new chip architecture […]

Back in 2008, Linux vendor Red Hat launched the Spacewalk open source project as an effort to manage Linux systems. Rival vendor Novell is now embracing Spacewalk and using it as the base for the new SUSE Manager Linux systems management solution. SUSE Manager will enable administrators to manage and update SUSE Linux Enterprise Server […]

Browser makers know that their offerings are going to come under fire next week at the PWN2OWN challenge, where hackers compete for notoriety and prizes for disclosing vulnerabilities in fully patched browsers. Ahead of the content, Google has already pushed out an update to its Chrome browser. Now, Mozilla is following suit. Mozilla has issued […]

Many IT decision makers are not focusing on endpoint security, according to a new study from IBM. IBM canvassed 300 IT leaders for their views on security ahead of the firm’s annual X-Force Trend Report, which will shed further light on what’s wrong with the application patching process. Marc van Zadelhoff, director of strategy for […]

Remember Jabber? In 2008, in a bid to bolster its collaboration efforts, Cisco acquired the lead commercial vendor behind the open source Jabber XMPP instant messaging technology. Now, two and half years later, the networking giant is bringing the Jabber name back to the forefront, unveiling the new Cisco Jabber product offering. Cisco Jabber is […]

HP is pushing its networking portfolio to new speeds. This week the firm is focusing on the enterprise Wi-Fi market, a networking segment of increasing importance as demand for bandwidth continues to rise. HP has announced its Mobile Access Solution, a portfolio of three access points that cap out at a capacity of 900 Mbps. […]

IPv4 is dead. Long Live IPv6? Not so fast. While the free pool of available IPv4 address has now been exhausted, IPv6 may not necessarily be entirely up to the task of replacing IPv4, at least not yet. Tim Winters, senior manager of the University of New Hampshire’s interoperability lab, told InternetNews.com that there have […]

Demand for Wi-Fi bandwidth continues to grow, which is why networking vendors continue to up the ante when it comes to Wi-Fi performance. HP this week is announcing new Mobile Access Solution access points that hit a new top-end of performance in the HP portfolio. The new HP Wi-Fi access points can deliver up to […]

Heading into an event like PWN2OWN, a noted exercise in browser hacking, you can’t be too careful. With that event set for next week, Google has pushed out an update to its Chrome browser that addresses some 19 security risks, of which 15 are considered to have a high impact. The latest release, numbered 9.0.597.107, […]