Sean Michael Kerner

In the face of evolving and increasingly targeted security threats, Sourcefire has released the latest version of its Immunet anti-virus tool that enables users to write their own AV signatures. What’s more, Sourcefire plans to integrate the custom signatures with a cloud recall feature, which continuously scans for new threats, and will automatically update the […]

Drobo has built its name offering storage solutions for consumers. But with its latest release, the company is looking to move into the SMB market. Drobo has released new eight- and 12-bay small business storage devices, tapping into the company’s BeyondRAID technology that abstracts the data from its physical hardware. “We virtualize the underlying physical […]

When IBM acquired BigFix last July, the company signaled that it was looking to branch out its security portfolio. Now that strategy has a public face with IBM’s release of Tivoli Endpoint Manager, integrating the technology it gained through the BigFix acquisition, and wading into a security sector that hasn’t historically been a focus for […]

Not even a week after releasing a stable version of the Chrome 9 browser, Google is at it again. That update addressed nine security issues, but now, Google is pushing out Chrome 9.0.597.94, which looks to remedy at least five more. Additionally, Google has added a freshly patched version of Adobe Flash, and continues to […]

There is no denying the surging popularity of Web apps, but as the new technologies begin to work their way into the world of enterprise IT, they also put businesses’ systems at increasing risk. According to a new study from the Ponemon Institute, commissioned by security vendors Cenzic and Barracuda Networks, Web applications are a […]

As networking architectures have evolved in complexity, so too have the threats to corporate security. The days of a simple firewall serving to protect the network seem to be in the past. That’s why Check Point, itself a pioneer in the firewall market, has developed a network defense technology it calls 3D Security. The new […]

From the ‘Try and Track Me‘ files: Mozilla’s is out with another open source milestone of its next generation Firefox 4 browser. Beta 11 isn’t just a bug fix this time either, it actually adds in a significant new feature with Do Not Track. What Feature Freeze??? Yeah I know staggering to think that developers […]

Remember Zimbra? The open source, email, calendar and collaboration software has had an interesting evolution from startup to its acquisition by Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) and its later sale to current owner, VMware (NYSE: VMW) a little over a year ago. Zimbra 6, released in September, 2009, was the last major release of Zimbra. The release […]

From ‘Relaxing Mergers‘ files: In a move that is all about scalability- memcached vendor Membase is merging with NoSQL vendor CouchOne. The new company will be called Couchbase. CouchOne is the commercial entity led by CouchDB founder Damien Katz. I’ve written about CouchDB a few times over the years and I use the database myself […]

From the ‘Next Stop: 3.1 and PHP 4?!’ files: The open source WordPress blogging platform is out with version 3.0.5, a new update fixing at least five security issues. Two of the issues are Cross Site Scripting (XSS) flaws which I personally consider to be serious. WordPress considers the issues to be *moderate*. In general […]

Networks operate more effectively when operators have greater visibility into the applications they’re carrying. Solid quality-of-service arrangements don’t hurt, either. Riverbed is out with a pair of releases that aim to address both of those pain points. The vendor has released Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS), version 6.5 of its WAN optimization offering, and the Cascade […]

With mobile broadband traffic soaring, researchers are scrambling to develop new technologies to keep up with the data crush. With the new lightRadio offering, Alcatel-Lucent is promoting a novel approach to managing wireless traffic, promising substantial efficiency improvements. lightRadio takes a page from the distributed architecture that powers cloud-computing deployments, connecting to a baseband that […]