Sean Michael Kerner

The second Linux kernel of 2009 is now out, sporting a long list of improvements — and at least one regression. New filesystem support, security and driver improvements are all part of the new Linux 2.6.30 kernel release, although one of the most noticeable elements in the new release is the kernel inclusion of fastboot, […]

From the ‘open source contributions‘ files: Red Hat’s JBoss is getting a technology infusion by way of the contribution of the eXo portal. The eXo portal is now going to be part of a new joint JBoss Red Hat project and does not replace the existing JBoss Portal effort, but could end benefiting it — […]

From the ‘complex things we need to do‘ files: In a perfect world, data would all be easily transportable and consumable. The world is not perfect, and that’s why the work that open source data integration vendor Jitterbit does, is valuable to many organizations. I first wrote about Jitterbit around the time of their 1.0 […]

From the ‘double checking facts‘ files: There was an interesting update as part of today’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday, for a vulnerability that I personally had thought was already patched. The vulnerability is one discovered by security researcher Nils at the PWN2OWN event in March. In the April Patch Tuesday, I was expecting a Microsoft update […]

The Apache Hadoop project offers the promise of being able to manage and process large volumes of data quickly. It’s a project that is used by big Web titans like Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Facebook, and it’s about to get a critical new tool to help it ingest even more data. Cloudera, […]

While the current recession is slowing service provider purchases of routing gear, it doesn’t seem to be having much of an effect on traffic demands on carrier networks. Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today issued its latest Visual Network Index (VNI) forecast, which predicts that total global IP traffic will hit 667 exabytes a year by 2013, […]

From the ‘Linux routers‘ files: Vyatta, the feisty open source startup that is trying to take router market share from Cisco and Juniper – is getting an injection of $10 million today. The $10 million is Vyatta’s ‘C’ round of financing and is led by Citrix Systems. That’s a decent sized investment from my point […]

Red Hat’s community Linux effort, Fedora is out today with its latest release, Fedora 11. While Fedora Linux 11 is an optimized release, some might even call it a ‘Spartan’ release, though not for lack of new features. The Fedora 11 release is officially codenamed “Leonidas” who was known as the King of the Spartans. […]

Though the economy is down, there is no slowdown in the demands being placed on carrier networks. It’s an issue that Juniper Networks (NASDAQ:JNPR) is hoping to help solve with its new 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)router interface card. The 100 GbE card is one of the first commercially available 100 GbE products and is based […]

From the ‘what will Apple announce at WWDC‘ files: It’s official – Apple’s Safari 4 is now out of beta. Frankly, I’m not surprised. I’ve been running Safari 4 (on a Windows test box) since February when the first Beta came out. Since that time, I know that Apple has updated Safari at least once […]

From the ‘was it really that long ago?‘ files: On June 8, 1995, Rasmus Lerdorf issued the first public release of PHP. It’s a language that became the key development language of the Web 1.0 world powering millions of sites (including InternetNews.com). Sure you can argue that PHP didn’t ‘really’ take off until PHP 3 […]

From the ‘counter-intuitive stats‘ files: Nortel has had a challenging year in 2009, entering into bankruptcy protection in January. Yet even with its financial challenges, according to a pair of industry research forecasts, Nortel is still the leader in the carrier softwswitch market. In release issues this AM by Nortel, they cite research from Dell’Oro […]