Sean Michael Kerner

Interop is often a time when new alliances are announced, though some never amount to anything more than a press release. The OpenSEA (Open Secure Edge Access) alliance, which was announced in May just ahead of the Las Vegas Interop show, is trying to prove that it’s more than just a one-shot announcement with its […]

What’s the most popular open source license currently in use? If you said GPL you would be right. But how did you know? Plenty of people assume that GPL is the most commonly used because that’s what a simple search of the SourceForge.net online repository brings up. Now, licensing detection software vendor Black Duck is […]

WAN acceleration is getting a lot of attention, because enterprises are more than ever faced with the problem of sharing applications and backup operations across disparate locations. This week, many vendors will addressing that issue as they pitch their WAN acceleration wares at the Interop show in New York. And two of the biggest vendors […]

Citrix as a company has always been about application delivery. As its iForum user conference kicks off today in Las Vegas Citrix will demonstrate its growth as an end-to-end application virtualization vendor as well. The virtualization technology comes by way of Citrix’s acquisition of open source virtualization vendor XenSource for $500 million which was announced […]

It’s that time of year again, when networking professionals gather at the Interop conference to get the lowdown on their industry. This time, it’s the East Coast, New York City version of the show — the little brother of the Las Vegas event that draws a significantly higher pedigree of headliners. In fact, among the […]

IT attacks need network carriers in order to hit their targets, for it is the carrier that, well, carries the Internet traffic — both good and bad. The Yankee Group released a report that highlights the growing need for carriers to pay more attention to the threats by implementing security measures to ensure clean pipes. […]

Mozilla has updated its Firefox Web browser with fixes that address more security issues than its previous two sets of releases combined. The new Firefox 2.0.0.8 release tackles at least eight security issues and includes no fewer than three different variants of problems that Mozilla has tried to repair before. Of the fixed security issues, […]

The third quarter of this year was a good one for the worldwide PC market, as mobility and a healthy consumer market provided the fuel for the double-digit percentage growth over last year, according to reports from IDC and Gartner. In its Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker, IDC reported that 67 million PCs shipped in the […]

Sometimes it’s just not enough for network administrators to know that a problem exists somewhere on the network. They need to see where it is. So Zenoss decided to map it. Open source network management vendor Zenoss released Zenoss Core 2.1, which integrates Google Maps into its network-reporting interface. The feature provides a degree of […]

Oracle’s October Critical Patch Update (CPU) addresses 51 vulnerabilities spread across the company’s product portfolio, a marked improvement over last October’s update. The quarterly release also introduces an update to the system it uses to score the severity of vulnerabilities. Oracle’s namesake database products, which have 27 disclosed vulnerabilities, get the majority of the 51 […]

Ubuntu Linux and its corporate sponsor Canonical claim to be ready for the enterprise challenge on the desktop and the server. Ubuntu’s 7.10 release, code-named Gutsy Gibbon, includes a slew of updates to both the server and the desktop that improve usability and security as the open source startup challenges both its open source peers […]

The nation’s first Linux patent suit currently facing Red Hat and Novell isn’t about open source at all. Or so the plaintiff says. IP Innovation last week filed the patent lawsuit against Linux in Texas, alleging that both Red Hat and Novell infringe on U.S. Patent No. 5,072,412, “User Interface with Multiple Workspaces for Sharing […]