Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Linux Runs the (Apache) World files: The Linux Foundation has made a name for itself, not just as the home of Linus Torvalds and Linux development, but as the premier organizer for open-source collaboration. It’s a fact that the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has also realized and after 14 years of producing their […]

Cisco announced the Videoscape platform expansion at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) now underway in Las Vegas. Back at the 2011 CES event, Cisco first announced Videoscape as a network video delivery platform. The initial Videoscape technology platform was based on Linux, using technology Cisco gained through its acquisition of Extend Media in August […]

The WRT54G was one of the first 802.11g Wi-Fi routers in the market back in 2003. Due to its low price point (originally marketed at $149) and its extensibility, the WR54G became widely deployed over the years. Linksys is now bringing back the WRT line of wireless routers with the new WRT 1900AC Dual Bank […]

The Firefox OS effort first began back in 2011 under the name Boot to Gecko (B2G) and was rebranded Firefox OS in July 2012. Gecko is the name of the core rendering engine that powers Firefox, and the idea of B2G was to have a thin Linux base tightly integrated with Firefox as the foundation […]

When you don’t control all content that flows onto a site, there is always the potential risk that malicious malware could be sneaking in. That’s what happened to Internet giant Yahoo over the weekend as malicious ads were able to infect unsuspecting users. Frankly, I’m not surprised. Ad platforms have been the subject of much […]

Security is one of the great market segments of the technology world as it’s not typically driven by seasonality or cyclical demands. Security needs are constant and evolving. Simply put, no enterprise on the planet can afford not to invest continuously in security—for fear of being attacked and embarrassed in a public breach. It’s in […]

Security vendor FireEye is acquiring privately held Mandiant in a cash-and-stock deal worth $1 billion. FireEye will pay $106.5 million in cash and issue 21.5 million shares and options to acquire Mandiant. Kevin Mandiant, founder of Mandiant, will become the chief operating officer (COO) at FireEye. “Mandiant is a gold standard in the security industry […]

In July 2010, Rackspace’s Jim Curry helped to found the open-source OpenStack platform. It’s an effort that now has the support of many of the world’s leading IT vendors and is a key technology option for deployment of public and private clouds around the world. In a video interview with eWEEK, Curry, senior vice president […]

2013 was another year of evolution in the ever-changing world of networking. Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) dominated headlines throughout the year and likely will again in 2014. SDN and BYOD aren’t however, the only key trends in 2013 that will be prominent in 2014 as 802.11ac Wi-Fi, IPv6 and […]

The state of server virtualization is one of the many questions answered in the 2014 Data Center Outlook: Data Center Transformation – Where is Your Enterprise? report from QuinStreet Enterprise (publisher of this site). The study surveyed 321 qualified IT professionals and found that 88 Server Virtualization Report percent of enterprises are investing in their […]

Developer Jeffrey Paul first raised the issue of data security on Digital Ocean in a Github post earlier this week. Paul noted that Digital Ocean was not by default “scrubbing” user data from its hard drives after a virtual machine instance was deleted by a user. The scrubbing process securely removes any and all residual […]

In a brazen attack to kick off the brand-new year, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacker group briefly took control of the Microsoft Skype service blog as well as its Facebook and Twitter accounts Jan. 1. The SEA is an online hacktivist group that is loosely affiliated with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. […]