Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘just because people use it, that doesn’t make it a commercial success‘ files: When I first talk with a vendor (any vendor) they’re always talking about the good stuff, their successes and why their technology is better. That’s the stuff that makes press releases and PR pitches. Then there are the failures. The […]

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) said it will offer a second interim update of HP-UX 11i v3, the company’s Unix operating system. HP said the latest update, code-named Versatility, offers improved performance, security certification and new bundled applications. HP’s latest Unix update comes as the public challenge from other flavors of Unix as well as Linux and […]

The first time I ever wrote about the Asterisk open source VoIP PBX was nearly four years ago when the 1.0 milestone was released. I met Asterisk creator Mark Spencer a few months later in Toronto where he delivered a keynote at the VON (Voice on the Net event) of that year. Fast forward three […]

TORONTO — Open source advocates have long pointed to Asterisk’s ascendancy as one of the movement’s great success stories. But for the founder of the open source PBX solution, Asterisk’s success is just the beginning. In fact, even with growing demand and more than a million downloads under its belt, the full-featured, open source IP-PBX […]

TORONTO. Google is out making the conference rounds pitching the benefits of cloud computing. The conference I’m at today is the IT 360 conference and the speaker this time is Matthew Glotzbach Product Management Director for Google Enterprise. I’ve heard Glotzbach speak before (at the 2007 Interop NYC event) and the basic premise of his […]

Let there be no further doubt: Linux is becoming big business. According to a new report from analyst firm IDC and sponsored by the Linux Foundation, hardware and software spending related to the open source OS hit $21 billion during 2007. The researcher’s findings further indicate that by 2011, Linux ecosystem spending will grow even […]

From the how many releases can you make in a week files: Cisco is a big company and they sure have a whole bunch of news this week (coming out of both RSA and the Cisco partner conference in Hawaii). The Nexus product line was first announced earlier this year with the Nexus 7000 switching […]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled a series of new products and initiatives to build out its security products against the threats of today and tomorrow. The virtualization security technology called Phantom and a new security event manager are part of IBM’s multibillion dollar push to become an end-to-end player in security. “The investments you see […]

Python has not been a language that has been front and center all that much (though it is mature and enterprise ready as I noted in a recent story). Python’s position changes today with the official launch of Google’s App Engine. It’s easy just to think of Google App Engine as Google’s answer to Amazon’s […]

Networking giant Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is giving its four-year-old self-defending network initiative a major refresh this week at the big RSA security conference in San Francisco. The refresh touches multiple product lines within Cisco and includes update to Cisco Security Manager 3.2, Cisco Security Agent 6.0, Cisco Intrusion Prevention System 6.1, Cisco Security Monitoring Analysis Response […]

Many enterprises struggle with the competing requirements of speed and security in their networks. Juniper Networks (NASDAQ: JNRP) claims to have the solution with its new Linux OS-based high-end Intrusion Detection Platform (IDP), which can scale all the way up to 10 gigabits per second (Gb/sec) of throughput. Juniper’s new platform comes at a time […]

Fans of the cult classic 80’s flic, ‘Clash of the Titans‘ know the Kraken as an evil sea monster that terrorizes the ancient Greeks. Apparently the Kraken is now back, with a 2008 twist. Instead of being a Sea monster, it’s what one security research firm is claiming to be the biggest Botnet in history. […]