Sean Michael Kerner

When times get tough, they seem to get even tougher for some in the networking sector. Nortel Networks, which was hit particularly hard when the dot-com bubble burst in 2001, is reporting big losses again. For the third quarter of 2008, the networking provider reported a loss of $3.4 billion on revenues of $2.32 billion, […]

From the “May the Source Be With You” files: Linux vendor Red Hat is expanding its Board of Directors with Micheline Chau, President and COO of Lucasfilm Ltd. Chau has been in her current position since 2003 and joined Lucasfilm back in 1991 as CFO. What does this mean for Linux? Well the obvious item […]

As traffic demands grow, so grow the products to deliver more bandwidth. Enter Cisco, which is rolling out a new high end Aggregation Services Router (ASR) that can deliver a whopping 6.4 Terabits per second of total service capacity. The Cisco ASR 9000 has a specific module for video delivery optimization and can be integrated […]

Consolidation of assets is a key mantra for challenging economic times. It’s also one that is being trumpeted by Juniper Networks in a new datacenter infrastructure push that has virtualization as a key component. The idea behind Juniper’s new Data Center Infrastructure solution set is that by using some of the company’s newest approaches and […]

From the “time flies” files: Firefox 1.0 was officially released on November 9th, 2004 – and it’s been (mostly) uphill for Firefox ever since.Do you remember the pre-Firefox 1.0 era? Firefox was an early adopter’s choice and far from the mainstream. Tabbed browsing was a novelty that few had ever experienced and the idea of […]

Networking acceleration vendor Blue Coat is adding a new layer of application visibility to its network acceleration offerings. Blue Coat is now providing a plug-in for deep integration of the Packeteer PacketShaper appliance with the Blue Coat ProxySG acceleration hardware in an effort to improve overall network performance for all applications. Earlier this year, Blue […]

From the “the pyramids weren’t built in a day” files: ICANN ( Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) met in Egypt this week to discuss the future of the Internet. It’s a future with more security, more domain names and more internationalization. Wait a sec, isn’t that the same future that ICANN has been […]

From the “it pays to be a beta tester” files: Mozilla is set to release Firefox 3.0.4 on November 12th. The first builds are now available for beta testers. Firefox 3.0.4 is a stability and security update for Firefox 3.0.x – though at this point Mozilla has not yet issued any public security advisories on […]

From the “what’s in a name” files: SCO – the company best known in the Linux community for its legal challenges could be dipping into its own intellectual property well to bring back a name from the past. Caldera.Groklaw has noticed some interesting legal filings which indicate that there could be a move to bringing […]

Linux users are not an easy bunch to profile or to count. Many Linux users download the operating system for free and never perform any kind of systems registration to enumerate their hardware. That’s where Smolt may be able to help fill the gap. Smolt is an open source hardware profiling technology that is already […]

From the “not far now…” files: I’ve been following the ReactOS project for several years, watching and waiting to see how this open source clone of Windows matures. Originally it was an effort to be compatible with with Windows NT, later Windows 2003 became the goal. With the ReactOS 0.3.7 release ReactOS is still alpha […]

Make no mistake about it, the current economic slowdown is real, but that’s not a reason to give up on growing a technology business. At least that seems to be the outlook of Cisco CEO John Chambers. Chambers used his company’s earnings call Wednesday to lay out the Cisco playbook for getting through challenging economic […]