Sean Michael Kerner

With the new encryption capabilities, Vogt is aiming to help enable more Hadoop deployments. “This is supposed to be the breakout year for Hadoop, but what we have found is that a lot of large organizations that were testing Hadoop last year, did not deploy it this year,” Vogt said. “The biggest show-stopper is security; […]

There are a lot of security threats facing mobile device users, and there is a lot of money on the table for vendors that are trying to provide solutions for that problem. One of those vendors is Mojave Networks, which this week announced a $5 million round of funding to fuel its enterprise-class mobile security […]

With Black Friday right around the corner, many retailers will consider using iPhones and iPads as point-of-sale (POS) terminals. Some of those implementations will be safe – but others will not. Trustwave Managing Consultant Mike Park, who has been evaluating mobile POS solutions, has uncovered a few disturbing trends. He is presenting his findings at […]

Open-source Web development organization Mozilla is patching its Firefox Web browser with a rare out-of-band update that addresses five security flaws. The new Firefox 25.0.1 update comes as Mozilla is gearing up its much-anticipated Australis user interface update that will overhaul the way the open-source browser looks. Read the full story at eWeek: Mozilla Fixes […]

For Q4 of fiscal 2013, Brocade reported revenue of $559 million, a 3 percent year-over-year decline. Revenue for the full year was down by 1 percent year-over-year, coming in at $2.2 billion. While revenue was down, however, net income is on the rise. For the fourth quarter, Brocade reported net income of $64 million, up […]

One of the reasons for the on-time release of openSUSE 13.1 stems from improvements in the development process that came from the openQA effort, which performs automated testing of openSUSE builds. Agustin Bethencourt, openSUSE team lead at SUSE, told ServerWatch that the improvements done in openQA worked better than expected. “We detected bugs earlier and […]

Nearly all mobile applications present a risk to users, according to a new report from Hewlett-Packard’s software division. In a study of 2,107 applications published by 601 companies on the Forbes Global 2000, HP found that 97 percent of the apps in some way accessed private information on the user’s device. HP scanned applications to […]

According to an FBI memo seen by Reuters, the hacktivist group Anonymous has gained access to multiple U.S. government agencies. The report alleges that the infiltration of the U.S. government agency sites came by way of flaws in Adobe’s ColdFusion Web building software. As part of the October breach at Adobe, hackers allegedly also got […]

The Pacnet Enabled Network debuted earlier this month during the OpenStack Summit held in Hong Kong. In a video interview, Jim Fagan, president of managed services at Pacnet, explained what the new service is all about and how it could revolutionize the way organizations consume networking services. Fagan said that Pacnet’s carrier assets allow it […]

Last week in Japan at HP’s Mobile Pwn2Own event, the legend of Pinkie Pie grew as the My Little Pony-loving security researcher once again demonstrated previously unknown zero-day flaws in Google’s Chrome. Pinkie Pie was able to pwn Chrome on both a Nexus 4 as well as a Samsung Galaxy S 4 smartphone. This time, […]

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine, more commonly referred to as KVM, is one of the most popular open-source virtualization technologies in use today. Both IBM and Red Hat use it as the basis for their Linux virtualization technologies, and it is the most widely used virtualization technology in the OpenStack cloud as well. KVM was originally written […]

Amazon executives detailed a series of innovations for Amazon Web Services (AWS), including enhancements to existing services as well as new cloud services. Typically, Amazon and its partners have leveraged the cloud as a server consolidation and scalability play, but at re:Invent, the focus expanded to the desktop. The new Amazon WorkSpaces service brings Virtual […]