Sean Michael Kerner

PHP users — time to update! Ilia Alshanetsky PHP 5.2 Release Master has officially announced the availability of PHP 5.2.6.  In his release announcement Alshanetsky noted: This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 120 bug fixes, several of which are security related. All users of PHP are encouraged […]

LAS VEGAS — WAN optimization and acceleration technologies have been available for a few years, but where are they going and what still needs to be done? Before a capacity crowd at Interop, a panel of experts from Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR) and Strangeloop Networks disagreed on the […]

LAS VEGAS. At a show as big as Interop there are always a lot of different technologies on display, some of them being more interesting than others. But what are users/attendees actually interested in? Network Instruments and NetQoS did an on-site survey of 117 network engineers and IT executives the other day which sheds some […]

From the ‘security is not all doom and gloom‘ files: At Interop last year I heard David DeWalt President and CEO of McAfee deliver a keynote — he was new on the job and he spent the bulk of his time on the negative stats of security (more malware infections, more data leakage etc etc..) […]

LAS VEGAS — The IT world is moving to 10GbE as a way to boost the speed of the network. As that networking speed increases however there may be new challenges and new opportunities which is what a panel of experts debated at an Interop panel including Citrix, Cisco, Dell, VMware and Solarflare. The panel […]

LAS VEGAS — Citrix President and CEO Mark Templeton is not bullish on the current state of the economy, especially for IT. When taking the keynote stage here at Interop, he had a very stark message for attendees: Things are not going well for IT and dramatic change is necessary. “It’s time to rethink everything […]

From the ‘when sessions go bad and people shout and walk out‘ files: It’s very rare that I’ve every been in a session at any conference session where an attendee heckles the panel and storms out. In a session at Interop on Open Source Risk that’s exactly what happened..and it was intense! About 15 minutes […]

LAS VEGAS — At a show focused on networking, the topic of spam may seem out of place. But when you consider that a large volume of the overall traffic reaching national carriers is spam, the problem becomes one that affects the network as well. In a session at the Interop conference here on how […]

LAS VEGAS. Some conference keynotes are noteworthy, some are just boring, then there are the ones that just go … well, bad. I’m sitting in the final afternoon keynote now where Cisco’s Jayshree V. Ullal Senior Vice President, Data Center, Switching and Services Group is speaking. Ullal is responsible for $10 billion a year in […]

LAS VEGAS — Network Access Control (NAC) technology may well be the next great evolution for enterprise networks, providing security and policy compliance. But as NAC gains steam — shifting from its early-adopter phase to what many industry insiders see as increasingly must-have technology — both enterprises and vendors need to understand the risks they’re […]

From the ‘strange things you see in Vegas‘ files: I’m sitting in the main keynote hall at Interop where Microsoft’s Bob Muglia (Sr VP server and tools) and  Barry Shilmover (Senior Program Manger System Center Cross Platform) just finished the first part of the afternoon keynote session. Guess what? You can now use Microsoft to […]

From the ‘daaahling you look maaarvelous‘ files: I’m sitting in a Cisco sponsored media roundtable session at Interop about the Video Ready Campus and I just heard something that I was startled by. Robert Whiteley Principal Analyst and Research Director at Forrester Research argued that ‘video is a good  thing from a morale perspective for […]