Sean Michael Kerner

In the open-source development model, the Linux distributions will also contribute back fixes and even features as they come up. As such, it’s difficult to measure the precise size of an active development community for OpenSSL. That said, it is now very clear that OpenSSL development could benefit from dedicated full-time, properly funded developers. It’s […]

Red Hat this week announced the OpenShift Marketplace in an effort to help grow its market share in the emerging cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) space. Red Hat traditionally has not resold other software vendors’ products. Back in 2007, Red Hat did in fact first attempt to become a reseller for its partners’ technologies with the Red […]

MPLS offers the promise of better security, quality of service and performance levels over public connectivity options. But how do you get an MPLS-based enterprise network to connect seamlessly to public IP-based cloud infrastructure? That’s the challenge that Verizon aims to solve with its Secure Cloud Interconnect technology. Thierry Sender, director of product development for […]

In a video interview with Enterprise Networking Planet, John D’Ambrosia, chairman of the Ethernet Alliance, details what’s next for Ethernet. Among the big-ticket items on D’Ambrosia’s list is 400 Gigabit Ethernet, an effort that he is helping to lead. While 400GbE is likely destined to be a technology not touched by your average consumer, it […]

The vast majority of the world’s ATM cash machines run on Microsoft’s XP operating system, which officially hit its end of life earlier this week. Does the end of XP pose a security risk for ATMs? Though XP could create some security issues for ATMs, experts say ATM owners should probably be more concerned by […]

The Heartbleed encryption vulnerability is perhaps the most serious Internet security flaw in recent memory, affecting hundreds of millions of people. The Heartbleed flaw is found within OpenSSL, an open-source cryptographic library used for the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which is widely deployed on Linux servers and Internet infrastructure around the world. What is perhaps […]

VeriSign released its quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) on April 9, once again showing a steady rise in the total number of top-level domains (TLDs) on the Internet. The fourth-quarter DNIB reported that there are now 271 million domains registered across all TLDs. TLDs include the popular .com and .net domains, both of which […]

The Horizon 6 release is the latest evolution of VMware VDI efforts and integrates a number of prior VMware efforts together. VMware first introduced Horizon as an application manager gateway back in 2011. Rob Baesman, senior director of product management for enterprise desktops, End-User Computing at VMware, explained to Datamation that the application manager functionality […]

Google is out with its latest Chrome web browser, providing users with improved security and new features for developers. Among the big new capabilities that have landed in Chrome 34 is support for responsive images. “Serving the same image resources to all devices can lead to slower page load times, wasted bandwidth and improperly formatted […]

While some vendors have whitewashed the term cloud, Verizon Terremark is not one of them. Verizon Terremark offers managed hosting, co-location servers as well as cloud servers as part of its technology services portfolio. Helping to lead the technical direction for Verizon Terremark’s cloud efforts is Chief Technology Officer John Considine. In a video interview […]

Many organizations today have a chief information security officer (CISO), and a growing number also have chief privacy officers. A few organizations are adding another C-level executive, one who is responsible for promoting trust. Bob West is one of only a handful of executives today with the title of chief trust officer. West, who works […]

Among the new features in MongoDB 2.6 is one called Index Intersection. Stirman said index intersection enables the query planner to use more than one index to resolve a query. “With index intersection, developers can address more queries with simple indexes and with less upfront index design,” Stirman said. Stirman said that as an example, […]