Sean Michael Kerner

Soni Jiandani, senior vice president for Insieme Networks, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet that Insieme is a subsidiary company 85 percent owned by Cisco. “Insieme is primarily an organization that is focusing on working on the next-generation data center solutions, around an application-centric infrastructure that will complement Cisco’s existing portfolio,” Jiandani said. The goal at […]

From the ‘On-Time Release Train’ files: In the open source development world, the influence of the Eclipse Foundation cannot be underestimated. While Eclipse started off as ‘just’ an IDE over the years it has evolved with its coordinated release train effort that sees piles of project all released on the same day. Today is that […]

The core Xen hypervisor technology has been open source since day one, but the overall server virtualization technology has not been. XenServer’s roots go back nearly 7 years to August of 2006 when XenSource released its XenEnterprise product. XenSource was acquired by Citrix in August of 2007 for $500 million, and XenEnterprise got folded into […]

OpenDaylight is run as a collaborative project operated by the Linux Foundation, which is no stranger to the world of open source collaboration. Jim Zemlin, executive director at the Linux Foundation, told Enterprise Networking Planet that while there is a lot of interest in open source SDN, the Linux Foundation is not actively recruiting members […]

PLUMgrid emerged from stealth today with $10.7 million in funding and its PLUMgrid Platform SDN overlay approach to present to prospective customers. Awais Nemat, co-founder and CEO of PLUMgrid, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet that his company’s approach to SDN is absolutely not OpenFlow based. OpenFlow has emerged in recent years as the key open […]

Among the big items that has landed in Firefox 22 is WebRTC. WebRTC is a Real Time Communication (RTC) effort that will enable users to use a browser as a communications and collaboration vehicle. Mozilla has been working on including WebRTC over the last several Firefox releases, and with Firefox 22 now considers it to […]

According to Cisco, there are over 800,000 Catalyst 6500s in its deployment base. “The Catalyst 6800 is the 6500 on steroids,” Inbar Lasser-Raab, senior director of marketing for enterprise networking at Cisco, told Enterprise Networking Planet. The Catalyst 6800 platform benefits from a new chassis design and includes updated silcon. The ASIC is EARL8, which […]

The AS/400 (Application System/400) was first introduced by IBM 25 years ago in June of 1988, and it’s a system that is still alive and well today in 2013. Though the core server operating operating system that constituted the AS/400 is still alive, the name AS/400 as a product brand is not. In 2008, IBM […]

Arvind Krishna has a big job at IBM. Krisha is the General Manager for Development and Manufacturing in the Systems and Technology Group at IBM. His responsibilities include semi-conductor research and development as well as production In an exclusive video interview with ServerWatch, Krishna detailed how IBM is differentiating its x86 offerings and what the […]

The XLP900 multi-core CPU family is a MIPS-based solution that can scale up to 1.28 trillion operations per second of compute performance. The XLP900 has multiple target market verticals, including wireless infrastructure, storage, and security applications. Chris O’Reilly, senior director of Broadcom’s Processors & Wireless Infrastructure Business, explained that each processor has up to 80 […]

Oracle reported its fourth quarter fiscal 2013 earnings late Thursday, showing growth in some areas and decline in others. For more information on Servers Active Directory Forest Recovery: What You Don’t Know WILL Hurt You Virtualization and Cloud Computing Moves the SMB Market Forward Powering Linux in the Data Center Thinking Outside the Data Warehouse […]

This week, Crowdstrike launched its Falcon active defense platform. Kurtz explained to eSecurity Planet that Falcon is a cloud-based platform that fuses real-time detection of targeted attacks with actionable security intelligence. “We want to be able to identify and attribute targeted attacks in real-time,” Kurtz said. “Legacy technologies just aren’t capable of dealing with targeted […]