Sean Michael Kerner

The wait is over for .NET developers. Microsoft’s open source CodePlex Foundation has opened its second project gallery, establishing as the inaugural project an effort to improve network monitoring technology. Code Guru has the story about the new CodePlex NetMons Parser project, which aims to bridge the gap between Windows developers and their counterparts working […]

Cisco’s entry into the bladed server market was viewed with some skepticism, but it is gradually winning customers. Now, one year after that entry, the company has revamped the Unified Computer System with Intel’s new Xeon 5600 processor, the latest and greatest from Intel. Server Watch has the details on the new product. Cisco is […]

This week, the 25th anniversary of the .com domain, has seen no shortage of fond remembrances of Internet past. But VeriSign, the firm that maintains the domain, is also looking forward. Over the next decade, VeriSign is expecting an exponential increase in Internet traffic, a surge that will require substantial investment in the underlying DNS […]

What makes a network borderless? To Cisco, it means the ability to establish secure, reliable and seamless communications among fixed and mobile devices both inside and outside the enterprise. In that spirit, Cisco is rolling out a wave of new routers and switches for its Borderless Networking Initiative. Enterprise Networking Planet has the details. Cisco […]

When IBM cast its net around for a virtualization supplier for its new cloud play, it had plenty of choices. Big Blue could have gone with heavyweights VMware or Microsoft, but it went a different way. IBM chose Red Hat’s virtualization technology for its new cloud, Server Watch reports. The move both expands IBM’s embrace […]

From the ‘Developer Preview‘ files: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 is now out for developers to try out and test — well kinda/sorta. You see the IE9 Test Drive Platform Preview isn’t really a browser is it? IE9 as it is currently available lacks tabs. It lacks a back button and it lacks an address bar. […]

While the Apple iPhone remains the undisputed king of mobile app downloads, Android has been winning converts among open source developers since its inception. Now, Android has made enough of a splash that it can claim more open source developers than the iPhone, according to new research by Black Duck Software. Of course, that takes […]

Virtualization helps companies consolidate physical resources and save on hardware costs. Enterprise Networking Planet reports on Blue Coat’s latest offering, the ProxySG Virtual Appliance, which is designed to bring the benefits of virtualization to WAN optimization. Virtualization isn’t just about virtualizing servers — it’s also about virtualizing network services to consolidate networking gear, too. Networking […]

From the ‘Significant Internet Milestones‘ files: The very first dot com domain symbolics.com was registered 25 years ago today on March 15, 1985. From that event a quarter century ago, there are now over 192 million total domain name registrations, with some 96.7 million domain names that are registered as dot com or dot net. […]

Most Internet users know of the ever-present scams that pass across e-mail and lurk in malicious Web sites. But a much more fundamental security flaw resides in the Internet’s core routing architecture, DNS. Many Internet experts believe that DNSSEC is the solution to the famous Kaminsky flaw. Enterprise Networking Planet hears from officials at .Org […]

Apple’s Safari Web browser is seeing its first update of 2010, which includes a set of fixes designed to fill security holes in both Mac and Windows editions of the software. But the majority of the fixes in Safari 4.0.5 are intended to address

Apache’s Tomcat Java application server has been giving a significant upgrade in its second major release, the inclusion of support for VMware and virtual servers tc Server 2.0 has a lot of other features, as Developer.com points out. VMware’s SpringSource division this week announced the release of its tc Server 2.0 platform, providing a commercially […]