Sean Michael Kerner

Rather than just focus the new C2000 as a processor for microservers, Intel is positioning the new chip as a low-power scale-out solution for storage and networking use cases as well. From a performance perspective, the C2000 is a 22 nanometer, 64-bit processor, based on Intel’s Silvermont micro-architecture. There are 13 different versions of the […]

Is cloud-based storage from Dropbox a secure option for enterprises? And what should enterprises be thinking about in order to securely store data in the cloud anyway? Dropbox is a widely used cloud-based storage platform that is now the target of security researcher scrutiny, as user data privacy is being called into question. A pair […]

The Apache Traffic Server 4 caching proxy server release improves Web performance and stability. The open-source Apache Traffic Server is hitting a major milestone with the release of a new version and a new road map for future development. The Apache Traffic Server was originally donated to the Apache Software Foundation by Yahoo and is […]

Developers from SUSE Linux join the effort to provide support for LibreOffice, an OpenOffice fork. The open-source LibreOffice office productivity suite—a widely deployed application on Linux operating systems with development led by The Document Foundation—is gaining new backing today with the launch of commercial support from Collabora Productivity. SUSE Linux has been one of the […]

The KDE desktop variant of Ubuntu Linux gets its own commercial support as it begins life away from Canonical. Thanks to support vendor Emerge Open, the Kubuntu Linux distribution now has its own commercial support for those users and enterprises that need or want it. Kubuntu is the KDE desktop version of the Ubuntu Linux […]

The new open-source Linux kernel release improves ARM architecture support and storage security. The fourth major milestone release in 2013 of the open-source Linux kernel is now out, providing users with improved performance and new capabilities, including support for the Lustre filesystem. Among the big new items included in the Linux 3.11 kernel is the […]

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is one of the most important and influential players in the modern open-source software development community. The ASF is perhaps still best known for its eponymous Web server, the Apache HTTP Server project, commonly referred to as “Apache.” Apache has dominated the Web landscape since its creation in 1995 and […]

Open-Source Python Code Sets New Standard for Quality: Study – See more at: http://www.eweek.com/developer/open-source-python-code-sets-new-standard-for-quality-study.html#sthash.QskL51XT.dpuf The open-source Python programming language has continued to steadily improve its code quality in recent years and now surpasses that of its open-source and proprietary peers, according to a study published by development testing vendor Coverity. “The Coverity platform is part […]

The executive director of the 80,000-member-strong VMware User Group (VMUG) explains what his group is all about and what they think about last month’s announcements at VMworld. Tech vendors live and die, not on the strength of their technologies alone, but rather on the strength of their loyal user bases. Helping to lead the charge […]

As cloud computing, and the need for qualified individuals to operate and manage cloud environments, grows rapidly, Red Hat is launching a new training program as well as the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Infrastructure as a Service to help teach and certify skilled professionals. Red Hat is well-known as a Linux vendor and […]

The new AT&T Foundry innovation center opened last month in Atlanta with the support of networking giant Cisco. The new center will help build and develop improved solutions for the modern network, which many increasingly use as a medium to deliver entertainment. Bob McIntyre, vice president and CTO for Cisco’s service provider group, explained to […]

Hewlett-Packard’s Fortify Source Code Analyzer 4.0 release is designed to deliver faster and more accurate analysis of software code. Hewlett-Packard is updating its Fortify Static Code Analyzer (SCA) to version 4.0, boosting both the performance, accuracy and feature set of the security and code quality tool. Static Analysis refers to the examination of code at […]