Sean Michael Kerner

LAS VEGAS — Juniper Chairman and CEO Scott Kriens sees what he calls a perfect storm brewing for enterprise networks. The keys to surviving? Users and user choice, he said during a keynote address at the Interop conference here. Kriens was talking about the converging challenges bearing down on enterprises today: global competitiveness, data center […]

LAS VEGAS — Partnerships and standards are the key to Voice over Internet Protocol adoption, according to Avaya CEO Donald Peterson and Extreme Networks CEO Gordon Stitt. The two partners, who shared the stage in a keynote at Interop Las Vegas Tuesday afternoon, were far less than complimentary about Microsoft’s incursion into the VoIP space. […]

LAS VEGAS — Cisco President and CEO John Chambers has an aggressive vision for the future of networking. He and his team at the networking giant are aiming to transform the network from being a cost of doing business to being the engine that drives communications technologies such as data, video, voice and mobility. Chambers, […]

LAS VEGAS –- The 18,000 visitors expected to descend on Interop this year will be tapping into an open source network that provides connectivity of all kinds. The network, InteropNet, is a custom environment for Interop that serves as a networking technology showcase. Tony Barbagallo, vice president of product management and marketing at GroundWork, said […]

LAS VEGAS — Avaya is now targeting its Voice over IP efforts at the small- to midsized-business (SMB) market with a new series of Linux-powered initiatives. The company’s VoIP, messaging and contact center is now available in an on-demand service called Avaya On Demand. For those looking for a customer-premise solution, Avaya MultiVantage Express includes […]

LAS VEGAS — Peer-to-peer approaches work for a variety of different technologies. But can P2P work for serious network security? A company called InfoExpress thinks so with the use of Dynamic Network Access Control (NAC). Network Access/Admission Control technologies, commonly referred to as NAC, typically involve either hardware infrastructure or client-side software approaches in order […]

Trolltech has a critical role to play in the Linux ecosystem. Its Qt (pronounced “cute”) application framework is at the heart of KDE , one of Linux’s main graphical environments, the other being GNOME, which is based on the GTK+ framework. Qt’s mobile version Qtopia is a critical component for rolling out Mobile Linux and […]

With 20,000 global deployments as a part of every major Linux distribution, the Amanda project has provided an open source alternative to proprietary backup systems since 1991. But there has been no formal enterprise edition until now. A new start-up called Zmanda has released an enterprise edition of Amanda in addition to a network-based approach […]

TORONTO — The holy grail of search marketing is to deliver the right ad to the right person at the right time. But is reaching that goal worth the price of user privacy? Using a mix of analytics and user demographics, Microsoft may well be further along on the quest of search ad nirvana than […]

TORONTO — Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Free Standards Group, is on a mission. He wants to prevent Linux from falling prey to the fragmentation fate that befell Unix. Zemlin was among those talking at the LinuxWorld Canada show here about the Free Standards Group and its latest Linux Standard Base (LSB) certification version […]

TORONTO — Apparently Google isn’t just the most trafficked and utilized search engine; it may also well be the most relevant as well. A panel at the Search Engine Strategies Toronto conference revealed that people perceive Google provides more relevant results than other search engines. Gord Hotchkiss, president and CEO of search research firm Enquiro, […]

Beta versions of Microsoft’s next generation browser, Internet Explorer 7, were intended just for developers and very early adopters. That all changed today when Microsoft released its latest IE 7 Beta 2 build, which has dropped the “preview” moniker and is available to tens of millions of users in English via Microsoft’s Web site. Though […]