Sean Michael Kerner

A10 Networks is introducing its new Thunder Series Unified Application Service Gateway (UASG), starting out with three appliances ranging from the entry-level to large enterprise use-cases. A10 doesn’t like to refer to its UASG devices as Application Delivery Controllers (ADC), though they share many similarities. “Things have evolved beyond just the ADC, so if you’re […]

Security in a modern enterprise is a complicated multi-headed beast. Many organizations have multiple layers of tools to keep the beast at bay by detecting vulnerabilities, but few have tools to manage the entire process. IBM is aiming to fill that void with its new QRadar Vulnerability Manager, a solution that collects data from multiple […]

F5 reported third quarter fiscal 2013 earnings late Wednesday, with revenue coming in at $370.3 million for a 5 percent year-over-year gain. The bulk of F5 revenues came from its ADC business, which generated $366.8 million. Revenue from F5’s ARX file virtualization business hit $3.5 million. Looking forward, F5 provided fourth quarter guidance for revenue […]

OpenDaylight operates under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, no stranger itself to running large scale collaborative projects. Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, told Enterprise Networking Planet that OpenDaylight is now accelerating at a rapid rate. “There is code now coming in that delivers a broad set of functionality,” Zemlin said. “We’ve […]

From the ‘Life is Precious’ files: I woke up this morning to check my email, in the hope that I got an overnight confirmation from celebrated hacker extraordinaire Barnaby Jack that we’d be talking soon about his upcoming Black Hat session. Instead, my inbox/twitter stream was filled with comments/praises about his life – as Jack […]

The new zBC12 mainframe is a step up from IBM’s previous entry-level mainframe the z114 Kelly Ryan, director and business line executive, IBM System z, explained to ServerWatch that the zBC12 machine is available in two models; a single central processing drawer model, the H06 and a two drawer model, the H13 which offers the […]

According to the first quarter 2013 State of the Internet report from Akamai, global average Internet connection speeds grew to 3.1 Mbps, a 17 percent year-over-year gain. In the U.S, the first quarter average broadband speed was 8.6 Mbps, a 27 percent year-over-year increase. Across the top ten broadband nations, only the Czech Republic, with […]

VMware reported its second quarter fiscal 2013 results late Tuesday, showing continued momentum for its Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) strategy and end user computing initiatives. For the quarter, VMware’s revenue came in at $1.24 billion, which is an 11 percent year-over-year gain. Net Income for the second quarter was reported at $244 million, up […]

In all the hype surrounding Big Data and its potential benefits, little time has been spent talking about its security implications. That is, until now. Hadoop vendor Cloudera today announced its new open source Sentry technology that aims to help provide a new level of security for Big Data. Justin Erickson, Cloudera’s director of Product […]

Andy Miller has resigned as CEO of the unified communications vendor after irregularities were found in his expense submissions. Miller had been the CEO of Polycom since May of 2010. Miller’s resignation was made public as the company he is leaving reports its second quarter fiscal 2013 earnings. “While this situation is certainly disappointing, it […]

Juniper Networks, CEO Kevin Johnson is calling it a day. Johnson announced his pending exit during Juniper’s second quarter 2013 earnings call. Johnson joined Juniper in July of 2008, replacing Scott Kriens, who had served as the company’s CEO for 12 years. “After 32 years in a line operating role, with the past 5 years […]

The Apache Software Foundation is out with a major new milestone release of the open source OpenOffice suite. The new OpenOffice 4 release marks a major new stage in the evolution of the open source project at Apache. “This is a big update, a release nearly a year in the making,” Rob Weir, Apache OpenOffice […]