Sean Michael Kerner

The International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2 recently announced the Certified Cyber Forensics Professional (CCFP) credential. (ISC)2 is no stranger to world of IT certification, as it is the organization behind the influential Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) designation. “It has become obvious to us that the forensics field is growing fast,” Hord […]

One of the leading ARM vendors in the server space is silicon startup Calxeda. Calxeda has its own unique system-on-chip (SoC) designs that enable high density scale-out of server architectures.  In an exclusive video interview with ServerWatch, Larry Wikelius, co-founder and VP of Software Engineering at Calxeda, details some of the challenges his company faces […]

From the ‘Counter-intuitive’ files: Apparently Mozilla officially launched Firefox OS yesterday. The first Firefox OS powered phones are set to debut – soon – Deutsche Telekom and Telefonica will release the first Firefox OS devices. This is a big win for the open mobile web – unless of course the carriers lock down their Firefox […]

The new Couchbase 2.1 release builds on the improvements that first landed with the Couchbase 2.0 release in December 2012. “Couchbase 2.0 was a huge release for us, and with that release we became a document database and we added cross data center replication, ” Couchbase CEO Bob Weiderhold told Database Journal. “A lot of […]

Oracle is expanding its engineered systems portfolio this week with the launch of the new SPARC SuperCluster T5-8. The new SuperCluster is powered by the SPARC T5 processor that Oracle first announced in March of this year. The T5 has 16 SPARC v9 cores per processor and 8 MB of shared level 3 cache per […]

“Modern infrastructure and especially cloud technology is very dynamic and transient, so it might be that a workload is running today on a machine that simply won’t exist tomorrow.” Luc Kanies, CEO and founder of Puppet Labs (ServerWatch) “It seems that they detected the malware pretty quickly — they removed it after only 36 minutes […]

This week Puppet Labs accelerated the drive toward full Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI( with the release of Puppet Enterprise 3.0. The latest release of Puppet Enterprise adds new cloud and network orchestration capabilities that go beyond what had been available in the Puppet Enterprise 2.5 release that debuted in 2012. Luc Kanies, CEO and founder of […]

Virtual machine traffic is now the norm, and it’s not limited to single servers anymore, with machines migrating across multiple servers in a data center environment or even across data centers. To help solve the problem of virtual machine network visibility, network visibility vendor Gigamon this week released its GigaVUE-VM 2.0 solution. Huy Nguyen, senior […]

Browser vendor Opera Software has revealed that it was the victim of an infrastructure attack. The incident was discovered on June 19 and publicly disclosed by Opera on June 26. As part of the attack, a code signing certificate was stolen, exposing several thousand Opera users to potential risk. “We recently uncovered a targeted attack […]

From the ‘subtle differences’ files: The Mozilla Foundation is rolling out a new logo for Firefox — but it’s likely something that few people will actually notice. The difference between the ‘old’ logo and the new one is very, very subtle changes that are about optimizing the logo for mobile. The revised logo is simpler […]

From the ‘Think Different Be a Beastie’ files: Jordan Hubbard, the open source developer that helped to co-found the FreeBSD Project back in 1993 is leaving Apple. Hubbard had been at Apple since 2001 and his most recent title was the Director of UNIX Technology. Mac OS X after all has strong roots in FreeBSD […]

According to the new 2013 Mobile Threats Report from the Juniper Networks Mobile Threat Center, 92 percent of mobile threats are now targeted at Android. That’s up from 47 percent in 2012. “That’s an incredible number and it shows not only where attackers are finding opportunities, it shows where attackers are finding ways to make […]