Sean Michael Kerner

Windows and cloud computing. It wasn’t too long ago that those two systems were on very divergent paths. But even as it continues to evolve its desktop products, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has embraced cloud services, moving even parts of its Office suite of productivity applications to the cloud. Now rPath has rolled out a service […]

Is Etherboot on its way out? Novell this week launched a new project to develop expanded capabilities for boot managing beyond what’s available through the current Etherboot technology. The open source Baracus project takes a network-based approach to provide remote boot, provisioning and power management. Baracus also offers a cloning feature, as well as an […]

From the ‘NO BS‘ files: Speeding up Linux, doesn’t necessarily have to be a gargantuan task and it doesn’t have to be done by Linus Torvalds either. On Monday, Torvalds praised a new 200 line Linux kernel patch that was going to make Linux faster for all. Inside of the same week, a new userspace […]

For a company that gives away its core product, Mozilla’s balance sheet is looking pretty good. The open source company unveiled its annual report on Thursday, disclosing revenues of $104 million in 2009, a 34 percent jump over the previous year. But as revenues rise, so too do expenses, particularly the costs associated with maintaining […]

From the ‘Pot of Gold‘ files: Mozilla is out today with a new development 0.2 release of Rainbow. With Rainbow, the idea is to provide a Firefox add-on for audio and video recording. The first release of Rainbow didn’t work at all for me, (which is why I didn’t write about it), but this new […]

Current Wi-Fi technical specifications just might not be good enough to handle the growing demand for multimedia content. In response to that perceived shortcoming, Verizon Wireless, SAP and several universities have joined forces to help nurture the growth of multimedia-grade Wi-Fi. “A lot of the Wi-Fi infrastructure has been built to accommodate access, giving people […]

While much of the focus of the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 centered around performance and scalability, security is a major priority in the new release. The new push toward security comes as Red Hat increasingly courts the government contracting business, where security standards are rigorous. Among the new security features that Red […]

Brocade continues to build on the IronWare operating system, which it picked up through the 2008 Foundry acquisition. This week, Brocade is out with a new line of VDX data-center switches, offering an Ethernet fabric technology that promises to converge various network layers and protocols. Brocade says the new operating system in the VDX 6720 […]

Are current Wi-Fi specs good enough for multimedia content delivery? A new industry association called the Multimedia Grade Working Group, thinks there is more work to be done. Verizon Wireless and SAP are involved with the new group, as well as multiple universities including Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon and Northwestern.  Wi-Fi infrastructure vendor Aruba is another […]

Oracle is out with a major release of its Solaris operating system, the first since the blockbuster acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The latest update boasts a litany of performance, security and scalability improvements over the previous iteration of the Unix operating system, version 10, which dates back to 2005. The new Solaris 11 Express carries […]

Acknowledging that enterprise customers are looking for vendors that can provide both wireless and wired networking products, Juniper felt it needed to enter the acquisition market to enhance its portfolio. Now, $152 million later, the company has announced plans to acquire Trapeze Networks, a Wi-Fi vendor with an attractive LAN hardware and software portfolio. Juniper […]

Juniper Networks is out with a major update to its core routing product, boasting that the new T4000 offers significant improvements in performance and energy efficiency. The new device is built on the next generation of Juniper’s Trio silicon, which made its debut in the company’s MX-3D routing platform. The update to Juniper’s high-end core […]