Sean Michael Kerner

Internet users in China were affected by a large-scale outage over an eight-hour period on Jan. 21 that has been linked to an unspecified DNS problem that redirected traffic and prevented many Web users from reaching popular domains. DNS (Domain Name System) is the technology that links domain names and routes them to the right […]

The FreeBSD 10 release is the first major version jump for the open-source server operating systems since January of 2012 when FreeBSD 9.0 was officially released.The FreeBSD Project is one of the earliest open source operating system projects, and is a direct descendent of the original open source BSD work performed at the University of […]

IBM reported its fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2013 results late Tuesday, showing continued declines in its hardware business, as software and cloud initiatives move the other way. For the quarter, IBM reported revenue of $27.7 billion, which is a five percent year-over-year decline. Net Income for the quarter was reported at $6.2 billion […]

The RHEV 3.3 release is built on top of the open-source oVirt project, which is led by Red Hat. The new release adds support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 platform, improves performance and supports a wider array of systems. The RHEV platform is one component in Red Hat’s overall virtualization and cloud efforts, […]

It often takes real money to move virtualization technology forward, which is why open-source virtualization vendor Docker is now raising new funds. Docker announced today that it has raised $15 million in a new Series B round of funding led by Greylock Partners, with participation from Trinity Ventures, Benchmark and Insight Ventures. Total funding to […]

One of the biggest changes in the Linux 3.13 release is the inclusion of the new nftables packet filtering technology, which is intended to be a successor to the widely deployed iptables technology. Iptables are typically used for security, access and firewall configuration on Linux servers and systems. The basic idea with nftables is that […]

A new study from Aruba Networks, titled “Are You Ready for #GenMobile?,” surveyed 5,000 people about their mobile habits. The study, found that the majority of respondents (57 percent) prefer Wi-Fi to other forms of connectivity, including 3G, 4G/LTE, and wired. The amount of time respondents reported spending on all forms of mobile is also […]

IBM is a founding member of the OpenStack Foundation, which is an effort to build an open-source cloud platform. As a member, IBM both contributes code into OpenStack and provides guidance to the project through its participation in the foundation’s governance. IBM’s representative on the OpenStack Foundation board of directors is Todd Moore, whose day […]

User information, whether it’s preferences for where you buy coffee or application passwords, can be a valuable commodity. That’s why it has long been a best practice to ensure that potentially sensitive data is not just stored or sent in the clear, without first being encrypted. A pair of incidents this past week helped highlight […]

Intel reported its fourth quarter and full year fiscal 2013 earnings late Thursday, providing insight into the state of the IT landscape. The PC market, which has been in a state of steady decline in recent years, still has potential, according to Intel CEO Brian Krzanich. For the full year, Intel reported revenue of $52.7 […]

The security breach at U.S. retailer Target in December has been the subject of intense scrutiny and speculation over the course of the last month. Few details were made public when Target first admitted to the security breach on Dec. 19, 2013. This month, little by little, scraps of information have emerged, including the disclosure […]

The Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report found that Java represented 91 percent of all Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) in 2013. What that means is that the final payload in observed attacks was a Java exploit, Levi Gundert, technical lead, Cisco Threat Research, Analysis, and Communications (TRAC), explained to eWEEK. The Java data comes into the […]