Sean Michael Kerner

The report titled, “Liberty and Security in a Changing World,” offers 46 recommendations to improve and overhaul U.S. Intelligence activities. The task force report was ordered by President Barack Obama on Aug. 27 to determine what could be done to assuage concerns about over-reaching government snooping while defending the strategic national interests of the United […]

Cisco is well known for its networking equipment, the cornerstone of its business operations, but the company also wants recognition for its collaboration and desktop efforts. Cisco has acquired the assets and technology behind Collaborate.com for an undisclosed sum. Collaborate.com offers a mobile collaboration and project management platform that will now extend the Cisco portfolio. […]

Since June, the world has been learning, leak by pilfered document leak, the extent of the U.S. government’s cyber-spying operations. National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden stole countless numbers of documents that have had the effect of also reducing confidence in U.S. technology vendors as they try and do business abroad. The tech vendors […]

Bitcoin’s value had been hovering above $1,000 USD per BTC for most of December, but a decision made in China has triggered a collapse in value that is unprecedented in the short history of Bitcoin’s existence. Bitcoin lost half its value overnight—with BTC to $USD rates hovering around $500 on major BTC exchanges, including Mt. […]

WANDL (Wide Area Network Design Laboratory) has a portfolio of network design and traffic engineering software solutions. Among WANDL’s offerings, its IP/MPLSView solution includes design and planning, management and monitoring, and service creation and provisioning components. WANDL’s other solutions include the Network Planning and Analysis Tools (NPAT) suite, a planning solution of optical and frame […]

The new Exadata Database Machine X4 is Oracle’s fifth-generation Exadata system. The Exadata system first debuted back in 2008 and has been updated multiple times since. The Exadata X3 system was announced back in October of 2012. “The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is the best platform on which to run the Oracle Database, and the […]

A key addition in the Fedora 20 release is full support for the ARM architecture as a target platform. ARM support now is completely integrated, and the Fedora Project had been working on it for several development cycles, Fedora Project Leader, Roby Bergeron said. “We’ve added significant quantities of build infrastructure for the ARM effort, […]

Apple this week released its first milestone update for the OS X 10.9 Mavericks desktop operating system. Mavericks, Apple’s latest OS X release, first became generally available Oct. 22. The new OS X 10.9.1 release includes both stability and security updates. On the security front, the OS X 10.9.1 update is narrowly focused on Apple’s […]

New exclusive research conducted by Palmer Research and QuinStreet Enterprise (publisher of this site) is detailed in the 2014 Data Center Outlook: Data Center Transformation – Where is Your Enterprise? report. The study surveyed 321 qualified IT professionals and found that 88 percent of enterprises are investing in their data centers for a variety of […]

According to new research conducted by Palmer Research and QuinStreet Enterprise (publisher of this site), security is both a leading priority and a leading challenge for data center modernization. The study, which surveyed 321 qualified IT professionals and summarized the findings in a new QuinStreet Enterprise Executive Brief, 2014 Data Center Outlook: Data Center Transformation […]

Dreamhost has emerged in recent years to become one of the world’s most popular shared hosting providers. The company is now expanding its lineup with new cloud compute and storage services, leveraging the open-source OpenStack platform serving as the foundation. Helping to fuel Dreamhost’s expansion is a new $30 million round of financing. In a […]

Accurately controlling and managing users and data in the cloud is becoming increasingly complex and challenging for many organizations. One vendor tackling the problem is CloudLock, though it is taking a bit of a different tack. On Dec. 10, the company made available a free tool called CloudLock GeoFence to help Google Apps users track […]