Sean Michael Kerner

Linux and iSCSI are two technologies that are gaining ground in the storage space. And thanks to a reborn effort, the two may be poised to gain together. In April, two of the leading open source iSCSI initiator projects, Open-iSCSI and Linux-iSCSI, merged, potentially heralding a new era for iSCSI on Linux. In another sign […]

SCO has officially launched OpenServer 6, its newest flagship Unix server formerly known as ”Legend”. The new server comes as SCO’s legal battles with Novell, IBM and others in the Linux world continue unabated. At the heart of OpenServer 6, which was designed to bridge the gap between Unixware and Open Server, is the SCO-owned […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is reportedly set to announce today that Apple will switch from the PowerPC chip to an Intel x86-based chip. Jobs is delivering a keynote at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco. Apple has not traditionally used an Intel-based processor in any of its offerings. The first Apple computers used […]

UPDATED: Apple has been encouraging PC users to switch as part of a massive advertising campaign for the last several years. It looks like Apple has taken its own advice and is now set to switch to the CPU inside the PC, Intel. Widespread speculation on Apple’s intentions surfaced over the weekend and have now […]

Things may soon go a lot smoother at London’s Heathrow Airport, thanks to a VoIP deal announced today between Cisco Systems and British Airways. Cisco will deploy VoIP to more than 14,000 British Airways staff, which will use 8,500 Cisco IP phones at its U.K. offices and airports. Financial terms of the deal were not […]

Media ratings company Nielsen/NetRatings today reported that the Mozilla.org Web site has benefited from its Firefox browser’s popularity with a surge in unique audience over the last 12 months. In March 2004, Nielsen/NetRatings reported that Mozilla.org had a unique audience of 1.1 million home and work Internet users in the U.S. That number jumped 284 […]

Neither SCO Group’s copyright claims on select Linux code nor Microsoft will be able to slow the spread of Linux in the enterprise over the next two years, an analyst for Gartner Research said. The biggest hurdles to greater Linux enterprise penetration are process-based, according to George Weiss. In a conference call sponsored by Unisys, […]

NEW ORLEANS — What’s the next big thing in wireless? What else? It’s still convergence, according to attendees at this week’s CTIA 2005 conference here. Officials from Texas Instruments (TI), Philips, Fujitsu Network Communications, the Wi-Fi Alliance, Flarion Technologies and Freescale Semiconductor touted the holy grail of convergence, highlighting a number of next-generation technologies, such […]

A week after Cisco reported a vulnerability in its Internetwork Operating System (IOS) Software Embedded Call Processing Solutions, the company has, thrice again, been hit. A trio of potential Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerabilities has been reported in the IOS that involves issues with the way it handles Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) packet processing, IPv6 and […]

IT spending in 2005 is expected to fall somewhat according to a new poll from CIO magazine. However, there are certain sectors, including security and storage, that are reportedly expected to rise. The magazine conducted the poll during a one-week period in December that garnered 243 responses from a cross section of industries. Only 6.7 […]