Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Don’t Mess with Sarah’ files: Linus Torvalds is well known for his use of colorful language on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) and he’s not the only one that uses questionable language that some might considering threatening. For the last 20 years, I can’t remember anyone actually standing up to Linus (or […]

From the ‘Aruba Out/ Xirrus In’ files: Two weeks to go until the big Black Hat security conference and I’ve just found out about a really big change. For the last several years, my first stop at any Black Hat event was the Wi-Fi control room/suite – run by Aruba Networks. So this year, I […]

To date, much of the WebRTC discussion has revolved around its implementation in web browsers, including Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, but that’s not the whole story. WebRTC also has relevance beyond the browser. It’s now a key technology in VoIP vendor Vonage’s mobile aspirations. Baruch Sterman, VP of Technology Research at Vonage, told Enterprise […]

Earlier this year, Red Hat shook up the organizational structure for its Linux platform. Tim Burke, the exec that had been leading Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux efforts, has shifted over to the cloud. In his place, Denise Dumas, who had been working as part of Burke’s team for the past five years, now leads the […]

Going beyond the basics, Amazon has a service called Trusted Advisor that is available on a number of its paid support tiers. The basic idea behind Trusted Advisor is to offer users advice and options on how best to configure and utilize their cloud deployment. The Trusted Advisor effort was born out of an event […]

From the ‘yum-update/apt-get upgrade RIGHT NOW’ files: The Apache Software Foundation is out with a pair of important updates to its namesake Apache HTTP Server. The new updates are the Apache 2.0.65 and Apache 2.2.25 releases. Of particular note is the fact that the Apache 2.0.65 release is the final release of the Apache 2.0.x […]

Forristal first responsibly disclosed the flaw to Google in February of this year. It is currently known by Google as Android security bug 8219321. The flaw is present in all versions of Android from 1.6 forward. Forristal said that all of Google’s Open Handset Alliance Android partners got the patch code in March. The patch […]

As part of its go to market product bundling, Red Hat is now offering two separate bundles for the commercial release of its OpenStack solution. The first is the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform which is optimized as an OpenStack Nova Compute platform. The second offering is called the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack […]

From the ‘Biting the hand that feeds you’ files: Apparently, Jeff Moss (aka Dark Tangent) doesn’t want U.S. Federal agents showing up at his Defcon conference this year. The irony is that at Defcon in 2012, the NSA’s top brass General Keith Alexander was the keynote of the event. Alexander praised the work that Defcon […]

From the ‘Doing the Neutron Dance’ files: Technology nomenclature is always a ‘funny’ business. Case in point, the soon to be renamed OpenStack Quantum networking project. I first heard about/wrote about Quantum in 2011as part of the OpenStack Diablo release cycle. It’s a brilliant idea, distill the core elements needed for Networking-as-a-Service in the cloud […]

The Xen project is out with is first release under the Linux Foundation banner with Xen 4.3 The new release includes new scalability and security capabilities as well as ARM and SDN technology previews. Lars Kurth, community manager, Xen Project explained to ServerWatchthat Xen Project 4.3 was the first release that had a release coordinator. […]

Software Defined Networking (SDN) extends the basic concept behind server virtualization to networking. A Brocade study found that SDN is currently being implemented across 19 percent of the survey base of 1,750 IT decision makers. As to why IT decision makers are considering moving to SDN, there are a number of perceived benefits. 42 percent […]