Sean Michael Kerner

For all the sophisticated networking gear out there, the innumerable applications and protocols running on WANs can make the contents something of a black box. Riverbed thinks it’s got an answer. With the release of its Cascade 8.4 product, the firm looks to make the job easier for network managers. Enterprise Networking Planet hears from […]

From the ‘So What Else is New?‘ files: The Linux Foundation (the people that employ Linus Torvalds) today announced new free training sessions for Linux. The sessions that they’ve listed as free at this point are on some basic topics like Linux performance tuning and troubleshooting. Then there are a few more developer focused topics […]

It may be a market dominated by Cisco, but its smaller rival Juniper still sees an opportunity. The networking firm has unveiled a partnership with Polycom to deliver telepresence to the enterprise market as a managed service. With demand for video rising around the world, the two companies see their partnership putting a unique stamp […]

There’s some debate over how long the IPv4 addressing system will hold out, but one thing’s for certain: it’s filling up fast. Modern operating systems are built with support for IPv6, but connecting traffic from the old system to the new one poses a special challenge. Blue Coat thinks it has an answer. Enterprise Networking […]

The world of open source middleware could have a busy 2010 ahead, with Red Hat’s JBoss unit talking up some of the initiatives that will keep it occupied during the coming year. Chief among them is focusing on enhancing the user experience. ServerWatch takes a look. Red Hat’s JBoss middleware division is set to have […]

Chrome may still be a fringe player in the browser market, but Google’s trying to change that. With the introduction of version 4 for Windows, the company is going after a mainstream audience, though the latest release still doesn’t run on Linux and Macintosh environments. Datamation has the details. One of the key items that […]

From the ‘Where is the OSI?‘ files: Red Hat has just launched a new portal at opensource.com – for information and articles about open source. The site uses the Drupal open source content management system and it looks like Red Hat has been working on the site since at least October. With opensource.com, Red Hat […]

The Domain Name System is supposed to have its own security system, but it looks like that system itself has been found vulnerable yet again. eSecurity Planet gets the details. DNS Security Extensions is supposed to be the technology that helps to secure the Domain Name System, or DNS, against attack. Yet DNSSEC servers aren’t […]

With the ever-increasing need for bandwidth, providers need not only faster pipes but faster gear at their central backbones to handle it all. Fast pipes are worthless if the central office is a bottleneck. Now Alcatel-Lucent has a tremendously fast switch, and Enterprise Networking Planet has the details. As demand for bandwidth continues to grow, […]

Agile software development has taken off over the past decade, and now its approach — quicker, iterative release cycles — will come into play in one of the most popular pieces of software today: Mozilla Firefox. As this story on Developer.com indicates, the potential benefits are substantial — though Mozilla’s not entirely abandoning the traditional […]

Since its inception, the English language and Latin characters have dominated all that constituted the Internet, including domain names, owing to the network’s origins in the United States. With the Internet going global, other languages have requested representation. Now they are about to get it. Datamation finds out which languages will be first. The move […]

Mozilla unwrapped the latest version of its flagship Web browser today, and while Firefox 3.6 may seem like “just” a point release, the update ushers in a slew of enhancements designed to make surfing the Web faster and easier — not to mention a number of important improvements of interest to Web developers. Linux Planet […]