Sean Michael Kerner

In the fight against malware and viruses, there are number of different defensive security approaches. One popular approach is to block all the bad incoming items from a known bad domain, sometimes referred to as blacklisting. This is a common approach used by anti-virus vendors. Another approach is to provide a list of applications that […]

From the ‘fastest trading platform on the planet‘ files: NYSE Euronext is partnering with Juniper Networks (NASDAQ:JNPR) in the build out and consolidation of new data centers. As of the time of this post, I don’t have the financial details on the transaction. The real key for the NYSE Euronext exchange for their new data […]

The Eclipse Foundation is today making its biggest release of the year, highlighting open source projects created using the Eclipse development platform. Its new Galileo release — the latest in the group’s annual “release train” roundup — includes 33 open source projects that were built with contributions from 44 different organizations. The Galileo release also […]

From the ‘fork is a four letter word‘ files: Movable Type has been forked — at least the open source GPL version — into a new project called Melody. Yes this blog is powered by Movable Type too. Six Apart, the vendor behind Movable Type created an open source version of Movable Type in 2008. […]

Can a domain name help save the environment? An effort is now underway to create a new top level domain (TLD) called .eco, which would aggregate environmental information about organizations and individuals along with a .eco domain name. The .eco TLD is being proposed to ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) as part […]

From the ‘who are you? And what do you want from the network‘ files: Identity management is a critical component of modern network infrastructure. It provides the entitlements by which users can assess applications and resources, and it is a key part of regulatory compliance for many. IBM today is updating their Tivoli Identity Manager […]

From the ‘great minds think alike‘ files: Nokia and Intel have announced a new strategic partnership for mobile development. This is big news for open source, since both Intel and Nokia rely on Linux (and open source) for their respective mobile platforms. Intel has Moblin, Nokia has Maemo — both are Linux based mobile operating […]

Managing power locally can be as simple as flipping a switch, but what happens when you’ve got hundreds of sites geographically dispersed? It’s a problem that open source vendor Opengear is now tackling with a new release of its hardware console server software. The new software release is officially tagged as the version 2.8 firmware […]