Sean Michael Kerner

In a deal set to reshape the network security landscape, Cisco today announced its intention to acquire Sourcefire for $2.7 billion. Cisco will pay $76 per share for Sourcefire. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2013. Sourcefire is a leading vendor of Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) technology; its founder, Marty […]

Nearly seven years after first being introduced, Oracle Linux continues to power ahead. “There are nearly 11,000 customers running Oracle Linux on non-Oracle hardware,” Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president of Linux and Virtualization Engineering, Oracle, told ServerWatch. In addition to those customers, Oracle’s Engineered Systems, including Exadata Database Machine, Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle Big Data […]

The general idea behind Software Defined Networking (SDN) is to decouple network hardware and its control plane from the software that runs on top of it. Networking startup Embrane now aims to take the idea of software defined architecture to the next level with SDN software that enables applications with their own networks. Embrane calls […]

Apple’s developer site is offline, thanks to a breach. According to Apple, the breach occurred on July 18. “Last Thursday, an intruder attempted to secure personal information of our registered developers from our developer website,” Apple advised. “Sensitive personal information was encrypted and cannot be accessed, however, we have not been able to rule out […]

Canonical is reaching out to its community via crowdfunding site Indiegogo, to raise $32 million in order to build 40,000 Ubuntu Edge devices. The campaign will last 30-days and backers that contribute $600 today and $830 any day thereafter, will receive a new Ubuntu Edge phone. The Ubuntu Edge will be a dual-boot device with […]

From the ‘Why Are You Still Running 1.3.x?’ files: Nearly two weeks ago, the Apache Software Foundation updated its namesake Apache HTTP webserver with new 2.0.65 and 2.2.25 releases. What was noticeably absent was an update to the current leading edge – Apache 2.4.x That’s no longer the case as Apache has now released Apache […]

Last week, network visibility vendor WildPackets rolled out its WatchPoint 3.0 solution, providing a distributed Big Data network monitoring solution. With WatchPoint 3.0, an enterprise can capture and store granular network data for up to a year in order to optimize networks and troubleshoot issues. WildPackets CEO Tim McCreery explained to Enterprise Networking Planet that […]

In a Black Hat webcast last week, Ben Williams, consultant with NCC Group, detailed his investigation into security devices. Williams found that many of the network security gateway devices he tested had security shortcomings that could potentially enable an attacker to perform all manner of malicious activities on a vulnerable network. “The ironic thing about […]

On July 19th, 2010, the CTO of NASA joined with Rackspace to announce a new effort, known as OpenStack. Three years later, OpenStack is much more than just Rackspace and NASA. Today OpenStack is supported by 231 member companies, including some of the biggest names in technology with HP, IBM, Dell, Cisco, Intel, AT&T and […]

“The constant drumbeat of critical Oracle patches is more than a little alarming, particularly because the vulnerabilities are frequently reported by third parties who presumably do not have access to full source code” Tripwire security researcher Craig Young, talking about Oracle’s 89 flaw July Patch update (eSecurity Planet) “It’s a small company and you know […]

Keyboard, Video and Mouse, or KVM, switch devices have been around since the dawn of the computer age. With a KVM device, a user can connect multiple physical computers and their associated network interfaces to a single keyboard, monitor, and mouse. In the modern world, where virtualization (like the other KVM) is the norm, it […]

In his first earnings call as CEO on Wednesday afternoon, Krzanich detailed his strategy for how Intel will move forward. During Intel’s second quarter fiscal 2013, revenue came in at $12.8 billion, up two percent on a year-over-year basis. Net Income was reported at $2 billion for the quarter, which is down by 2 percent […]