Sean Michael Kerner

Verizon’s CEO and chairman, Ivan SeidenbergSource: Verizon Ivan Seidenberg, chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications, isn’t a big fan of network neutrality. But he is a strong proponent of broadband networks — and of their owners taking an active hand in shaping the Net’s future. In fact, to Seidenberg, carriers like Verizon play a major […]

The Apple Macintosh operating system is becoming found more widely in enterprise computing environments. With the increased Mac usage comes the need to bring Macs into the network optimization fold, which is what WAN optimization vendor Riverbed is doing with in its new RiOS (Riverbed Operating System) 6.0 release. RiOS is the underlying operating system […]

From the ‘pwnd by $$‘ files: The open source Metasploit penetration testing framework has been acquired by a firm called Rapid7. I’ve personally never heard of Rapid7 before today, but this acquisition in my view, has both a potential downside and a potential upside. I’ve been tracking the metasploit project for years (and have version […]

The open source dynamic language PHP has been a mainstay of the Web application delivery landscape for the past decade, but only in recent years has it made serious inroads into enterprise IT development. Now with the release of the new Zend Server 5.0 PHP application server, advocates see PHP hitting mainstream IT in earnest. […]

Cisco’s new ISR 3900 routerSource: Cisco At the core of Cisco’s traditional networking business is its networking routers — and specifically the popular ISR (Integrated Services Router), which has sold more than 7 million units. Now the ISR is getting a major refresh with a new generation of routing, processing, video and scalability features. Cisco’s […]

From the ‘First in Africa, now in the U.S‘ files: A few weeks, back IBM and Canonical (the lead sponsor of Ubuntu Linux) announced a plan to deliver Linux desktops and software to Africa. At the time, I questioned why the offer wasn’t being made available in the U.S. That changes today as IBM and […]

From the “Emperors of Rome Using Linux‘ files: The first Fedora 12 beta is now available and at first glance it sure looks to me like it’s jammed pack full of interesting and innovative new features. Speed is a key issue for all Linux distros, and Fedora is taking an interesting approach by compiling all […]

Linux vendor MontaVista Software is expanding its Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) product offering to include new next generation LTE wireless and networking capabilities. MontaVista Carrier Grade Edition 5.1 is the first major release of the platform in nearly two years, and remains compatible with most of the underlying architecture from the CGE 5.0 release. With […]

From the ‘Flushing $1 Billion Down the Drain‘ files: MySQL founder Monty Widenius has a solution for Oracle to get EU approval on its Sun acquistion: Sell MySQL. Considering how long it is taking Oracle to get approvals on its acquisition of Sun, it might not be a bad idea in my opinion. The EU […]

Moving lightweight Java forward is a real business for virtualization vendor VMware’s SpringSource division, today unveiling Spring 3.0 — an effort that bring a new expression language and more optimization to its lightweight Java framework. Since its creation, Spring has grown in popularity as an open source Java framework — today counting more than 3 […]