Sean Michael Kerner

NEW YORK — You can be good. You can be fast. You can be cheap. But you can’t be all three. That’s the view of Juniper Networks  chairman and CEO Scott Kriens who kicked off the Interop show here with a keynote about putting the “Real” in real-time enterprise in which he took aim at […]

UPDATED: Security researchers are alleging that a zero-day exploit for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is in the wild. The vulnerability stems from a buffer overflow condition in IE for an XML component called Vector Markup Language (VML). VML handles vector images that are specified via XML inside of an HTML page. According to Verisign’s iDefense Labs […]

What’s new in the world of networking? That’s the question on the table this week at the Interop conference in New York. The last Interop, held in Las Vegas earlier this year, yielded a rash of network security, platform and acceleration-related news. The latest iteration shouldn’t be much different. In Las Vegas, Cisco CEO John […]

Some open source developers prefer LAMP stacks. Some prefer J2EE. Red Hat is betting that by combining both into one stack, it’ll deliver the best of both worlds in a standardized way. Today Red Hat is announcing the Red Hat Application Stack, which includes components of both LAMP and J2EE, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, […]

Network Access Control (NAC) is quickly becoming a generic term for a wide swatch of network access control technologies from various vendors. It’s important to note that NAC as a technology is a term used by Cisco for its product. Rather than fall in line with the generic, Cisco’s lead rival, Juniper Networks , is […]

Firefox users, update your browsers. Mozilla has released its seventh update this year, Firefox 1.5.0.7, which fixes four critical security issues in the popular open source browser. Among the four critical issues tagged by Mozilla in the update is Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2006-57, which describes a JavaScript Regular Expression Heap Corruption. The corruption could […]

TORONTO — Most PHP developers use a Windows desktop to develop their code, but then turn to Linux when it comes time to deploy their apps. It’s a situation that Microsoft is hoping to change On day two of the php|works conference here, Microsoft’s Joe Stagner, who bears the title, “Opinionated Misfit Geek,” delivered the […]

TORONTO — “The Web is broken and it’s all your fault.” Those are the words that Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP, said to kick off his keynote at the php|works conference under way here. He said the current state of the Internet includes a litany of broken items, but with a little help from […]

How do you change a change management solution? That’s the issue that faced Serena software following the December 2004 release of its flagship Dimensions 9. The answer? Dimensions 10, which debuts today. The new Dimensions release boasts a host of new features that Carl Theobald, senior vice president of research and development at Serena, noted […]

In a world where data loss and security breaches of private data seem to be an everyday occurrence, the need for data security cannot be overstated. The key to data security, according to IBM, is all about the key itself. IBM today officially announced new encryption technology and services that claim to provide “end-to-end” protection […]

Asterisk has been a disruptive force in the telco world since at least its 1.0 release. And now with version 1.4, the first major release of the open source VoIP IP-PBX in almost a year, as well as a looming hardware appliance, Asterisk and its corporate sponsor Digium are hoping to disrupt the telco world […]

Symantec  and Juniper Networks  are about to get a lot closer than they’ve ever been, thanks to a new strategic partnership announced today. But they aren’t going to merge. John W. Thompson, chairman and CEO of Symantec, denied on a morning conference call that a merger with Juniper had been a topic of discussion for […]