Sean Michael Kerner

The concept of the cloud was born with Amazon’s public cloud, though a new study shows that enterprises in both the U.S. and the U.K. increasingly are interested in a hybrid cloud approach, melding both private and public components. Sixty percent of respondents see a hybrid cloud solution as the right approach for cloud deployment, […]

VMware, perhaps more-so than any other vendor on the planet, is responsible for helping enterprises move to more agile and efficient virtualized server infrastructure. Simply put, VMware is the vendor to beat in the enterprise virtualized server space. Read the full story at eWeek: VMware’s Love-Hate Relationship With OpenStack Sean Michael Kerner is a senior […]

The Washington Post reported Thursday, Aug. 15 that it had been the victim of an attack by a group known as the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). The intrusion involved both a phishing attack against a staff writer’s Twitter account as well as some Washington Post page redirections by way of an exploit of the Outbrain […]

For anyone taking electronic payments, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a critical must-have compliance component in order to do business. Currently the standard is at the PCI-DSS 2.0 level. The new 3.0 standard is now in development, bringing with it policy and procedural changes that will impact the security of the […]

The open-source Linux operating system is widely deployed on enterprise server infrastructure, but it also has a place on the desktop, as well. While many in the Linux community have long speculated on when “The Year of the Linux Desktop” would finally arrive, the reality is that there is no single such entity as THE […]

On the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 14, my Twitter feed was overflowing with people noting that the venerable Gray Lady, The New York Times, was offline. Within minutes, the rampant speculation was that The Times had been hacked, which in my initial opinion, wasn’t all that far-fetched. After all, The Times itself admitted in January, […]

Cisco reported its fourth quarter fiscal 2013 financial results late Wednesday, showing positive growth and momentum across key networking segments. Despite the growth, Cisco plans to reduce its workforce by 4,000 employees in a bid to further improve operational efficiency. For the quarter, the vendor reported $12.4 billion in revenue, a 6 percent year-over-year gain. […]

Brocade reported third quarter fiscal 2013 financial results late Tuesday, with revenue coming in at $536.6 million, a 3 percent year-over-year decline. Earnings Per Share (EPS) came in at $0.26, up from the $0.09 reported for the third quarter of 2012. Part of Brocade’s third quarter 2013 earnings came from a $76.8 million gain during […]

Adobe is now building out a number of new Web development tools, among them is the open-source Brackets code editor that is now available as a preview for Linux users. The Linux support currently is as a debian package, and it joins existing support for Windows and Mac OS X. Unlike Dreamweaver, which is a […]

While Linux is a general-purpose operating system that can be used to run any number of applications, some applications are more widely deployed than others. Seventeen percent of respondents noted that they currently run business intelligence applications on Linux, while 14 percent said they use Linux for Web server deployments. Only 6 percent said they […]

Apparently Google’s Gmail users don’t necessarily have the legal rights to the full privacy they might expect. “Just as a sender of a letter to a business colleague cannot be surprised that the recipient’s assistant opens the letter, people who use web-based email today cannot be surprised if their communications are processed by the recipient’s […]

Meraki’s wireless access points (APs) leverage a cloud-based controller for management, rather than the typical on-premises hardware controller common in many enterprise Wi-Fi deployments. Cisco’s MR34 AP, an 802.11ac device, expands the Meraki portfolio. The 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard offers the promise of up to 1.3 Gbps of wireless access speed. Sanjit Biswas, Cisco’s VP and […]