Sean Michael Kerner

These days, it’s hard to avoid rampant buzz of how cloud computing is going to change the enterprise data center permanently, and for the better. But away from the hype, it’s clear that cloud computing is in its early days, though it hasn’t stopped every major enterprise OS from making some sort of play for […]

It’s only a matter of time, and not much at that. The current IPv4 system is running out of addresses. Within the next two years, the supply is likely to be exhausted. So what will it look like when the organizations overseeing global Internet addressing run out of IPv4 addresses, and transition to IPv6? Enterprise […]

Testing the many different points of potential vulnerability in a company’s security system can be tedious, and automation is the best way to get around that drudgery. Metasploit has been one of the automated testing tools of choice, and its popularity stems from the fact the that it is open source. However, the latest version […]

Two major players in the U.S. telecom space are set to wed, if all goes well with CenturyLink’s $10.6 billion purchase offer for Qwest. The deal, which will also entail CenturyLink taking on $11.9 billion in Qwest’s debt, would see the No. 5 U.S. carrier purchasing the third-largest player — potentially reshaping the entire competitive […]

IBM is partnering with Novell to lend technology that will power new Linux-based appliances for a spate of its enterprise software offerings. Through the partnership, IBM plans to offer new appliances for Lotus, Websphere and Cognos, a collaboration that figures to boost Novell’s enterprise Linux presence. Server Watch has the details of the new tie-up […]

Is it safe to say the tech sector is in recovery? Not only are the component makers doing well, so are the vendors that make expensive end-user products, like Juniper Networks. The networking equipment provider did better than expected in the first calendar quarter of the year on the strength of new networking gear introductions, […]

Red Hat this week is giving the public a tantalizing new look at its flagship enterprise Linux platform, RHEL 6 — the first major release of the platform in three years. Though it’s only now reaching its public beta, it’s clear that a lot’s going on with the new release: RHEL 6offers a new filesystem […]

Up to now, HP’s networking business has always been a segment of the larger computing group, not quite big enough to warrant its own division. But with the closure of its $2.7 billion purchase of 3Com, HP now has a whole networking division on its hands, and that’s what it has created. HP Networking will […]

If it felt like your Internet connection was getting slower, you’re not alone and you’re not imagining things. A survey by content delivery network provider Akamai found there was a decline in overall bandwidth on the Internet in 2009. However, the reason is not that people are spending endless hours watching pointless YouTube videos. There […]

With an increasing number of large, commercial enterprises adopting Drupal as their content management system of choice, the members of the Drupal project are kicking things into high gear. There’s no firm behind it the way the Mozilla Foundation is behind Firefox, but it does have a major corporate supporter in Acquia. This week, Acquia […]

From the ‘Agile Development‘ files: Mozilla developers are now out with a new beta release of Firefox 3.6.4. As opposed to Firefox 3.6.2 and Firefox 3.6.3 (there was no 3.6.1 release), the main focus for the 3.6.4 release isn’t about a security fix. Both 3.6.2 and 3.6.3 were primarily bug and security updates. With 3.6.4 […]

Networking giant Cisco now owns Tandberg, following a months-long drama that saw it squaring off with a group of angry shareholders. But that’s now in the past, and Cisco now has its eye on improving its position in telepresence, an area that’s become the focus of some frenzied dealmaking in recent months following Cisco’s own […]