Sean Michael Kerner

Riverbed reported its fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2013 earnings late Thursday. For the quarter, revenue came in at $283 million, a 19 percent gain compared to the fourth quarter of 2012. Riverbed reported total revenue of $1 billion, a 26 percent year-over-year gain. Looking forward, Riverbed provided guidance for first quarter fiscal 2014 […]

The overall speed of connections on the Internet rose during the third quarter of 2013. Akamai reported that the global average connection speed to its platform came in at 3.6 Mbps which is a 29 percent year-over-year gain. As has been the case ever since Akamai first began drafting its State of the Internet reports, […]

Yahoo announced late on Jan. 30 that its widely used consumer mail service was attacked recently. “Recently, we identified a coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail accounts,” Jay Rossiter, senior vice president of Platforms and Personalization Products at Yahoo, wrote in a Tumblr blog post. “Upon discovery, we took immediate action to […]

According to a Wall Street Journal report this week, the Target attackers were able to gain access to the retailer’s system by way of stolen credentials from a third-party vendor. The investigation into the Target breach has widened and now involves the U.S. Department of Justice. In a submission to the U.S. Senate Committee on […]

“As we think about the entire cloud services space for enterprise customers, this is immature. And with customers, there’s a lot of tire kicking, a lot of experimentation and test and dev. So overall, for anybody in the enterprise space, this is still very early days.” –VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger (ServerWatch) “Bitcoin is a massively […]

In the U.S. during the third quarter of 2013, 4.2 percent of all traffic seen by Akamai came in over IPv6. The U.S ranks fifth in the world for IPv6 traffic, behind Luxembourg (4.9 percent), France (5.0 percent), Switzerland (7.0 percent) and Romania (7.3 percent). Digging a little deeper, some network service providers have larger […]

VMware reported fourth quarter fiscal 2013 revenue of $1.48 billion, which is a 15 percent year-over-year gain. Net income for the quarter was reported at $335 million. For the full fiscal 2013 year, VMware revenue came in at $5.21 billion, for a 13 percent gain over 2012, with net income reported at $1.01 billion. Looking […]

The risk of data loss from a Website can come from multiple avenues. There could be an outright data breach where an attacker steals content directly from a database, or an automated bot could scrape the site, stealing data that is out in the open. The challenge of dealing with automated Web-content scraping is one […]

FileZilla is a commonly used open-source FTP program, and according to security vendor Avast, malware versions of FileZilla are out in the wild. The malware versions of FileZilla are corrupted versions of the software that steal users’ credentials and could also be employed for spreading more malware. “Attackers also can download whole Web page source […]

Arpit Joshipura, VP at Dell Networking, told Enterprise Networking Planet that server buyers have long had the ability to choose the operating system they want. Now that same choice is coming to the networking realm. Cumulus Networks first emerged in June of 2013 with a Linux distribution geared towards networking. Inside Cumulus, the system is […]

ACI first came to light under the Insieme brand and was officially launched in November of 2013. The initial focus for ACI was on Cisco’s Nexus data center portfolio. This week, that expands to the enterprise campus and branch portfolio too. Jeff Reed, VP and GM of SDN at Cisco, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet that ACI […]

Today at the Open Compute Summit V event, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that in the last three years his company has saved a billion dollars by building out its infrastructure using OpenCompute designs. “We’ve also saved a lot in terms of the energy consumption,” Zuckerberg said. “In just the last year, we […]