Sean Michael Kerner

Last year treated VeriSign well, as the firm boasted a solid uptime record amid notable cyberattacks and with DNS queries up 22 percent. Then, too, revenues were up 13 percent in the fourth quarter, and 10 percent for all of 2010, VeriSign said this week. But 2010 was also about laying the groundwork for major […]

As tech companies look ahead to expansion into new market segments, they are often faced with a buy-or-build dilemma. They could either invest in the internal development required to compete in the space, or get out the corporate checkbook and buy a company that already does. For Verizon, that choice was clear. The telecom giant […]

IT organizations have long recognized the value of virtualization technology for reducing so-called server sprawl and consolidating hardware assets saving both money and space. The latest challenge for virtualization vendors is to convince customers that the technology is up to taking on the most mission-critical workloads. Moses Cone Health System looks like as good a […]

Intel made some big news on the networking front this week, specifically around its effort to expand the use of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). Yesterday Intel announced that its Open FCoE technology is now being supported by a number of big name vendors, including Cisco, EMC, NetApp, Red Hat and Oracle. Tom Swinford, Intel’s […]

From the ‘Good Documentation‘ files: For the last six plus months, Mozilla developers have been focused on building Firefox 4. That’s not the only effort that Mozilla is now sprinting to complete, developer documentation at the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) is now also being completed. Instead of a ‘code sprint’, MDN is having a doc […]

The economy may remain sluggish, but networking vendor Juniper enjoyed a prosperous year in 2010. The networking firm, a leading rival to market leader Cisco, reported earnings for the fourth quarter and full year this week, boasting double-digit revenue increase, and topping analysts’ projections. Meanwhile, as the company heads into the new year, Juniper is […]

From the ‘Bug Extermination‘ files: There are a lot of bugs in Firefox 4. Mozilla this week updated the next gen Firefox browser to Beta 10, quashing no less than 506 bugs. Yeaaah, it sounds like a lot, but you have to remember it’s an improvement over the 661 bugs fixed in Beta 9. On […]

Cisco is offering a middle ground between its lower-end, unmanaged 100 series of switches and the fully managed 300 series. The new 200 series switches are geared for small and midsized businesses looking for some support without having to shell out for the networking giant’s top-shelf offering. Cisco bills the new switches as a “smart” […]

LibreOffice 3.3 has arrived, courtesy of an official release this week from the Document Foundation. The latest version of LibreOffice, a fork from Oracle’s Open Office software suite, bundles numerous extensions for Windows users that otherwise would have gone unused in the project’s extensions repository. “For Windows users, there are a lot of big wins,” […]

From the ‘Dodging Bullets‘ files: The Red Hat sponsored Fedora community Linux project has suffered a security incident in which its infrastructure was compromised. No need to worry, too much – according to Fedora the risk is minimal. “At this time, the Infrastructure Team has evidence that indicates the account credentials were compromised externally, and […]

Add Dell to a growing number of vendors using Novell to build Linux appliances. IBM, VMware and SAP are other notable computer companies to sign on with Novell. The news became official this week when Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) announced that it is joining the SUSE Appliance Program. The company did not announce financial terms of […]

As enterprise users and consumers increasingly look to the Linux and Mac operating systems as an alternative to Windows, so too grows their demand for applications built for those platforms. But with the influx of new apps also come security risks. In response to those concerns, CoreTrace is in the process of developing updated versions […]