Sean Michael Kerner

Cisco announced a breathtaking array of acquisitions last month. As of today’s its managed to close one: Finalizing its deal to purchase ScanSafe, a SaaS security solutions provider. EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet takes a look at the deal and what it for Cisco’s offerings. October was a big month for Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) during which it announced […]

A real-time OS is a key fixture in many enterprise deployments in the financial services, telecom and military sectors. Unlike a typical OS, most real-time OSes trade overall throughput for reduced latency and the ability to have actions take the same amount of time each time they occur. Red Hat, a major player in the […]

From the ‘Green Tech‘ files: TORONTO. Remember the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project? I sure do. Back in 2006, I remember very well watching Nicholas Negroponte take the stage at LinuxWorld to pitch the effort. The effort was supposed to be provide a Linux based operating system and easy desktop environment for children around […]

JaveEE 6 is out after two years of work. Everyone’s thrilled, right? Not so. As it turns out, critics say efforts to make the framework more lightweight could themselves use some thinning down. And that’s just the start of their concerns. Developer.com looks at the arguments. Members of the Java Community Process (JCP) voted to […]

Novell this week reported continued softness in several core businesses, with lower revenue and wider losses. But the company’s management sees opportunity ahead to leverage its array of identity, security, systems and resource management and Linux appliance efforts. Datamation takes a look. It has been a tough year for a lot of vendors in the […]

From the ‘H D Moore Knows‘ files: Yesterday, Google launched its new Public DNS service. Among the benefits that Google is claiming for the new service is that it helps to secure DNS for users. Is that an accurate claim? One of the big issues that security researcher Dan Kaminsky disclosed about DNS insecurity in […]

From the ‘90 percent‘ files: As part of it original offer to acquire video conferencing vendor Tandberg, Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO) has a condition that 90 percent of shares needed to vote in favor of the deal. That hasn’t happened. After two deal deadline extensions ,with the last one ending on Thursday Dec 3rd, Cisco still […]

The addition of MIPS support to FreeBSD could mean new embedded applications for the chip architecture, Sean Michael Kerner reports in Enterprise Networking Planet. Mips processors are used in a broad range of consumer electronics as well as networking hardware. When it comes to new features in an open source operating system, sometimes features are […]

The fourth release of a busy year in Linux activity promises a lot. The 2.6.32 comes with a host of files system and driver updates, dedupe capabilities and memory, both virtual and “dirty.” LinuxPlanet has the story. For the Linux kernel, 2009 has been another banner year, with this week marking the debut of the […]

From the ‘AYBABTU‘ files: Is there anything that Google can’t do? As part of its never-ending quest to update and improve the web experience for all, Google today launched a new free public DNS service. DNS is critically important technology that we all of use everyday. It’s the system that resolves IP addresses to domain […]