Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘indirect effects of Twitter‘ files: LAS VEGAS. Twitter is a great tool for microblogging and conversation. It might also be a platform that is teaching us bad habits that might be making us all less secure. In a session titled ‘Ready, Set, Attack, at Interop, Roel Schouwenberg Senior anti-virus researcher at Kaspersky talked […]

Riverbed’s Mark Day (left) and Cisco’s Paul McNabbPhoto: Sean Michael Kerner LAS VEGAS — What does the future hold for datacenter networking? According to a panel of executives from leading networking vendors, it’s a future that will need standards, that will take time to develop and deploy. Mark Day, chief scientist at Riverbed, Paul McNabb, […]

From the ‘truth hurts‘ files: LAS VEGAS. The promise of NAC has been around for years and users want to know when it will finally be ready. That’s the message that audience members of a panel event on NAC (network access control) delivered to vendors including HP ProCurve, Cisco, Microsoft and Juniper Networks.  The panel […]

IDC’s Abner GermanowPhoto: Sean Michael Kerner LAS VEGAS — First, the bad news: The economy’s state is as bad as you think it is, or maybe even worse. That’s got enterprise IT managers feeling like they’re falling into a black hole — where they’re trying to contend with increasing traffic demands but declining budgets, researchers […]

LAS VEGAS — Ethernet is one of the most pervasive technologies on Earth connecting desktops, servers and even cities together to the Internet. Yet though Ethernet is nearly everywhere, vendors have simply done their best to comply with the published standards and to date there has not been an official certification process for Ethernet networking […]

LAS VEGAS — Two industry goliaths are claiming they can change the IT landscape for collaboration. That’s the message delivered today by top executives from HP, who said they’re joining forces with Microsoft to spread the companies’ combined solution and services for unified communication (UC). Speaking here the Interop conference, which kicked off this morning […]

Running a full Java middleware stack in a production environment is often about more than just having an application server. Red Hat’s JBoss division today announced a new solution for managing the business rules that are needed as part of a full middleware stack. JBoss Enterprise Business Rules Management System (BRMS) 5.0, is an open […]

Network Access Control (NAC) offers the promise of ensuring that devices that connect to a network don’t pose a risk. It’s a promise that today stands to become widespread than ever, with a key industry group introducing new approaches for enabling access-control “health checks” across more devices, networks and even application servers. The multi-vendor Trusted […]

When the going gets tough, the tough goes to… Las Vegas? Interop Las Vegas 2009 gets underway next week, with vendors big and small talking up their networking wares. With big vendors like Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) and Juniper (NASDAQ:JNPR) reporting declining revenues as customers delay or put off networking purchases, Interop is coming at a challenging […]

The race is on for networking vendors to get their share of the $7 billion in broadband grants being offered through the Obama administration’s massive economic stimulus bill. At its core, the program will involve billions in new networking gear to help improve the state of broadband in the United States, and networking vendors like […]