Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Sharp Edged Networking Gear‘ files: HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced a new line of blade switches for its c-class BladeSystems. The new switches (switch blades if you will) are called the HP ProCurve 6120 series and includes the ProCurve 6120XG Blade Switch (pic above left) which is a 10 GbE switch that can give […]

As Internet traffic continues to grow, how should carrier networks expand to keep up with demand? One solution is to continue to roll out more routers and move to 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE). Another solution is to get better efficiency out of both the optical and IP networks that service providers use already. That’s the […]

From the ‘No UN Inspectors Required‘ files: The Islamic Republic of Iran is now testing out DNSSEC (DNS Security) for the its dot ir (.ir) country code domain. That’s right, Iran is now improving the security of its domain. Politics of what is going on in Iran (elections, nuclear aspirations) aside, the move towards DNSSEC […]

From the ‘30 days‘ files: VMware today announced that they have officially completed their acquisition of open source Java dev tools vendor Springsource. The deal was originally announced on August 10th, for a total cost of $420 million. The close of the deal seems quite rapid to me, but then again Springsource was not a […]

From the ‘Dev-Channel Is Faster‘ files: Google Chrome 3 is now out for the mainstream with a new stable-channel release. The new release is officially numbered 3.0.195.21 and includes a faster JavaScript engine, improved HTML 5 features and new tabs pages. As a dev-channel user myself, this is all stuff I’ve seen for months. Google […]

At the heart of many Cisco enterprise routers is its IOS operating system. When it comes to small business, however, Cisco isn’t pushing IOS, which it developed itself — instead, the networking giant is new small business router is powered by Linux. Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced a new set of small business networking products […]

From the ‘Security Stats‘ files: The SANS Institute is out today with a new Cyber Security Risks report. Among their top conclusions is the assertion that operating systems are not the biggest IT security problem. Add-on applications and web application vulnerabilities, top SANS list for security vulnerabilities.  “Waves of targeted email attacks, often called spear […]

From the ‘Interesting Idea’ files: There are a lot of different open source system and network monitoring projects. Then there are the professional open source vendors like Zenoss, Hyperic and Groundwork that integrate some projects together.  Now one of those professional vendors is trying something new. Groundwork today is officially launching the monitoringforge.org site, as […]

From the ‘Big Add-on News‘ files: Mozilla’s Jetpack is a new approach to deploying and building browser add-ons, but it’s always had one big problem. You first had to get users to actually install Jetpack first. In contrast every other add-on just work when you install it into Firefox. That now changes thanks to the […]

Developing applications for Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone is big business, and it’s one that Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) wants a piece of. Novell today released new software called MonoTouch that aims to bring .NET applications to the iPhone. MonoTouch is based on Novell’s Mono project, which is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET framework. Unlike […]

Avaya has emerged as the victor in the auction to buy the enterprise business of bankrupt networking vendor Nortel. Avaya will pay $900 million in cash, which is nearly double the $475 million it bid when the stalking horse auction process began in July. Nortel and Avaya will seek court approval for the deal tomorrow, […]

The practical reality of many enterprises and datacenters today is that they use heterogeneous operating system environments. Having the disparate systems can sometimes present challenges to users and administrators from an access and authentication standpoint. One solution to the problem comes from open source vendor Likewise. The company released Likewise Open 5.3 last week under […]