Sean Michael Kerner

Virtualization is a key technology for Linux vendor Red Hat which earlier this year outlined a broad new virtualization roadmap including new products and technologies. Those efforts are now starting to bear fruit, with Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) this week indicating that it’s now entering the beta phase of deployment. Red Hat’s new initiatives aim to […]

From the ‘don’t click everything you see‘ files: Thanks to Twitter, URL shortening services are now common place, but their popularity can also put them (and you) at risk potentially. URL shortening service Cligs has reported that its service was hacked on Monday. What the attack did was take Cligs URLs and redirect them to […]

Commercial open source database vendor EnterpriseDB today released its latest version of Postgres Plus Advanced Server, aimed at offering more Oracle database compatibility. EnterpriseDB is one of the leading commercial backers of the open source PostgreSQL (aka Postgres) database. The Postgres Plus Advanced Server is not actually open source, though. It builds on the open […]

Application security doesn’t need to entirely rest in the cloud or in the corporate datacenter — it can actually exist in both locations as part of a hybrid. That’s the view of application security vendor Cenzic, which today updated both its on-premises Hailstorm and its on-demand ClickToSecure services to version 6.0. The new releases include […]

From the ‘not available now‘ files: Twitter is down right now – it’s part of a scheduled maintenance window that started at 5 PM ET. This was rescheduled from an overnight window to enable continued discussion in Iran over Twitter as my colleague Alex Goldman reported earlier today. That’s all fine and nice, and a […]

From the ‘why so long?‘ files: Apple has finally patched Java on the Mac for a long list of issues that had already been patched on other operating system platforms. As opposed to Windows users that get their Java updates directly from Sun (and soon Oracle?), Apple packages Java for the Mac itself. So users […]

From the ‘huh that’s an interesting idea‘ files: The way that browsers have worked since the time of  NCSA Mosaic is as clients to the wider world of the Internet. Opera Software is trying to change that with the alpha release of a technology that includes a web server in the browser. Officially called Unite […]

From the ‘fight till the bitter end‘ files: You gotta hand it to SCO, they’ve got an incredible knack for survival. I (like many others) was expecting SCO to enter into Chapter 7 bankruptcy this week – that means the existing Chapter 11 bankruptcy that protects SCO from creditors would be converted to a liquidation […]

From the ‘fail whale bugs‘ file: Regular Twitter users are used to seeing a ‘fail whale’ every so often that indicates the service is down for some reason (usually capacity). In July, the fail whale could be coming from a different source – namely the month of Twitter bugs. Security researcher Aviv Raff has announced […]

It’s in an interesting time to be a Java developer. The custodian of Java, Sun Microsystems, is on the verge of being acquired by Oracle and a major new Java specification is set to be finalized. Java EE 6 is the first specification update to enterprise Java since the Java EE specification was ratified around […]