Sean Michael Kerner

In an exclusive video interview with Enterprise Networking Planet, Avaya Networking senior vice president and general manager Marc Randall explains why SDN matters, and why the conversation has changed. Avaya acquired the enterprise networking assets from bankrupt Nortel in 2009. While still supporting the Nortel legacy, Avaya has made significant strides forward in enabling the […]

From the ‘That’s a lot of machines’ files: BOSTON. I’ve known for some time that Cisco runs and uses Linux. Until today though I had no idea how large that footprint was. Speaking at the Red Hat Summit today, Ram Appalaraju, Vice President of Technology, Products and Solutions Engineering at Cisco told us all what […]

BOSTON. For better or for worse, when I think JBoss I think – Java. In the open JBoss keynote at the Red Hat Summit this week, Mark Little the CTO for Red Hat’s JBoss explained why JBoss is more than just Java today. But don’t get me wrong – Java is still at the center […]

At Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) today the company announced OS X Mavericks, updated the MacBook Air and Mac Pro and announced the new IOS 7 mobile operating system. The new IOS 7 mobile operating system is now being made available in developer preview, with general availability set for later this year. The […]

Red Hat first announced OpenShift back in May of 2011. With OpenShift Online, users can build server applications on the platform that can then be deployed on Red Hat’s online service. Red Hat has also since expanded the effort with an on-premises OpenShift Enterprise edition. Over the last two years of development for the OpenShift […]

For many years, there was a widely-help notion that Apple Mac users were more secure than their Windows counterparts. While that may not necessarily be entirely accurate, there are a number of things that Apple Mac OS X users can do that will secure their web browser experience. In 2012, Apple Mac OS X users […]

Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of CloudFlare, told eSecurity Planet that while there had been a bit of noise around IPv6-based attacks over the years, about two months ago the noise started to get real. “In the last two months we’ve seen a number of attacks that have been IPv6 only,” Prince said. “The techniques […]

OpenStack services startup Mirantis announced this week that it has pulled in another $10 million in venture capital funding, bringing total funding to date up to $20 million. Mirantis provides services for OpenStack and develops the open source FUEL library of tools, which enables cloud deployment and management. Alex Freedland, Co-Founder and Chairman of Mirantis, […]

According to the 2013 Cost of Data Breach Study from Symantec and the Ponemon Institute, the cost of a data breach in the United States declined to $188. This is the second year in a row that Ponemon saw a drop. In the 2012 study, it reported the cost of a data breach was $194 […]

On Wednesday night, Microsoft announced that in coordination with the FBI, it had moved in to disrupt the massive botnet-based crime ring known as Citadel. Richard Boscovich, assistant general counsel in the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, told eSecurity Planet that there were more than 1,400 botnets associated with this malware. As such, it took Microsoft […]

IPv6 Launch Day aimed to accelerate global IPv6 adoption by encouraging sites around the world to turn IPv6 on and leave it on. The Launch Day event was the Internet Society’s second yearly event for IPv6, following IPv6 Day in 2011. 2013 sees no IPv6 Day event, but that doesn’t mean the job of moving […]

“The level of secrecy around the current legal procedures undermines the freedoms we all cherish” Larry Page, Google CEO commenting on NSA PRISM (Google) “I call on all Web users to demand better legal protection and due process safeguards for the privacy of their online communications, including their right to be informed when someone requests […]