Sean Michael Kerner

Linux started from humble beginnings in Finland, born in the brilliant mind of creator Linus Torvalds and has emerged to become a dominant force in the modern IT landscape. Linux today is the enabling engine for the embedded devices that will make up the Internet of things, it powers enterprise servers, supercomputers and the world’s […]

Disasters and equipment failures can happen at any time, anywhere, and enterprise IT administrators need to properly prepare for them. This past week, NASA fixed an equipment failure aboard the International Space Station (ISS), and while it operates in a very different environment from data centers here on Earth, its operations can serve as a […]

Apple’s iPhone is one of the most popular devices on the planet, and its popularity has made it a target for exploitation by the U.S. National Security Agency. In a presentation at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany, on Dec. 30, security researcher Jacob Appelbaum discussed multiple exploits in the NSA’s catalog of vulnerable […]

Target publicly acknowledged on Dec. 19 that its U.S. retail stores had been the victim of a data breach. In a public media update published Dec. 27, Target stressed that its customers’ PIN information was strongly encrypted using the Triple Data Encryption Standard (DES). “The PIN information was fully encrypted at the keypad, remained encrypted […]

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has its own catalog of vulnerabilities that it uses to exploit commercial networking gear in order to insert backdoors to conduct surveillance, according to a report published this weekend in German news magazine Der Spiegel. The report is based on materials leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and details […]

VIDEO: Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux, talks about what he learned in 2013 from crowdfunding and the wearable computing future. Shuttleworth also addressed the issue of how Ubuntu Linux will help enable the nascent world of wearable computing devices. He shot down the idea, however, that an Ubuntu Glass-type device is in the works […]

“We take this matter very seriously and are working with law enforcement to bring those responsible to justice.”  -Gregg Steinhafel, Target chairman, president and CEO (eWEEK) “I know we got a lot of criticism when we bought Sun and we have gone through this transition where we had a growing hardware business, Engineered Systems, and […]

Oracle reported its second quarter fiscal 2014 earnings late Wednesday with revenue reported at $9.3 Billion for a two percent year-over-year gain. Looking forward, Oracle President and CFO Safra Katz provided guidance for the third quarter fiscal 2014 revenue to grow between two and six percent on a year-over-year basis. One particular area highlighted by […]

Among those helping to lead the effort is Brocade’s David Meyer, chairman of the OpenDaylight Technical Steering Committee (TSC). At his “day job” with Brocade, Meyer holds the titles of CTO and Chief Scientist. In a video interview with Enterprise Networking Planet, Meyer detailed his involvement with OpenDaylight and what challenges the project faces as it […]

The big security news of the day is that U.S. retail giant Target had a massive in-store data breach that compromised the information of 40 million credit and debit card customers. It’s a bad situation and one that triggers a lot of fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD). Target customers are obviously concerned that they could […]

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform had its first public release in July and was based on the OpenStack Grizzly platform. The new Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 release is based on the updated OpenStack Havana platform that debuted in October. The Havana release includes a number of key new features that […]

U.S. retailer Target quite literally has a target painted on itself, and it’s one that attackers are now confirmed to have hit in one of the largest data breaches on record. Target admitted Thursday that approximately 40 million credit and debit card accounts are at risk from the breach. The affected accounts were compromised between […]