Sean Michael Kerner

Running QuickTime may well involve more risk to users than just the risk of seeing bad video content. Apple has pushed out a security update for its QuickTime software, the second security update to the media playing software in just over a month. QuickTime version 7.3 fixes at least 7 security issues that could have […]

At the heart of Cisco’s dominance of the enterprise networking landscape is the Cisco Catalyst switch. As the name implies, Catalyst switches enable traffic to flow across an enterprise as part of the Cisco Campus Communications Fabric. Now the Campus Communications Fabric is about to get faster, thanks to a set of new features that […]

Sun’s open source Java effort has won a new convert today; Red Hat has announced that it will join the Sun-led OpenJDK effort and will now be an active participant in the process. With Sun open sourcing Java, it took the first step on a longer road toward further opening it up to development. Despite […]

Open source software might make it simpler for employees to download and install an application without first having to check that it meets with the company’s approval and governance policy. But that freedom also means that application usage in the enterprise can become something of an untamed, unregulated Wild West. Fortunately, there’s a new sheriff […]

Microsoft is a tremendous competitor in every market in the world. And according to a letter written by Mandriva Linux CEO Francois Bancilhon, it’s so bent on winning that it undercut a deal between the Nigerian government and the Linux vendor. The letter details circumstances that might raise some ethical questions about Microsoft’s competitive practices. […]

The fastest connection an enterprise could get was the venerable T1, with its 1.54Mbps transmission speeds. Those days are long since gone, as faster speeds available over SONET based optical carrier (OC) and Ethernet networking technologies. The fastest for many carriers and enterprises is OC-192 and on the Ethernet side it’s 10GbE, both of which […]

You can now buy a Linux PC at Wal-Mart! Woo hoo! The only problem is that it’s really more of a Google network PC that could easily be run on hardware that costs significantly less than $199. Don’t get me wrong — I’m a big fan of the world’s largest retailer. I shop at Wal-Mart […]

Users expect their Web browsers to work rather than crash or break functionality — especially after they update to a newer, supposedly better, version. Yet that’s what happened with Mozilla’s Firefox 2.0.0.8 update, released two weeks ago. In addition to providing fixes for old security issues, it introduced new problems, which Mozilla has addressed in […]

When it comes to big enterprise IT deployments in the U.S., there is no enterprise bigger than the federal government itself. Linux vendor Red Hat is hoping for a larger portion of the government’s multi-billion dollar IT spending with its widest-ever array of security certifications, thanks to assistance from HP. HP today released new Multi-Level […]

Big Blue is rolling out a big plan for dealing with security in the most comprehensive way it can — by using almost all of the immense technological assets at its disposal. IBM today launched a wide array of new products and services from across its product portfolio in a bid to improve security throughout […]

Understanding what’s going on in a business service process is big money for technology vendors. It’s a business that Netuitive is aiming to shake up with it new Service Analyzer 2.0 that automatically learns what’s going on to provide enterprises with actionable metrics. “What’s unique here is the service-level aspect,” Daniel Heimlich, Netuitive’s vice president […]

Four times a year Oracle releases its Critical Patch Update (CPU), which often reveals database flaws numbering in the double digits. But for users who want to take additional steps to secure their Oracle databases, rather than wait for the quarterly CPU, there are other options. This week, database security vendor Sentrigo will release an […]