Sean Michael Kerner

It has been nearly six months since Red Hat has released Red Hat Enterprise 6(RHEL 6). Red Hat engineers have been keeping busy over that time, working on the RHEL 6.1 release that hit general availability today. With RHEL 6.1, Red Hat is expanding hardware platform support, virtualization features and introducing new identity technology as […]

In 2003, Novell acquired SUSE Linux, bringing the German Linux distribution under Novell’s direction. Now eight years later, SUSE Linux is being spun out from Novell, as is its own separate business unit, owned by Attachmate. Attachmate has now appointed Nils Brauckmann as president and general manager of the new SUSE Linux business. Brauckmann has […]

LAS VEGAS. The Internet is growing at a faster rate than ever before and technology needs to keep changing to keep pace. That’s the message delivered by Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group, in a keynote address at the Interop conference in Las Vegas. According to Skaugen, there was […]

LAS VEGAS. Everyone is talking about the cloud at the Interop conference this week in Las Vegas. One of the opportunities that cloud provides enterprises with is choice of provider, but with so many alternatives, how do you make a choice? A panel of cloud vendors including Engine Yard, Microsoft, Rackspace and Verizon tackled the […]

It’s widely known that networking giant Cisco has seen stiffening competition over the last year. In a recent webcast, the company worked to assert its dominance. Sean Michael Kerner reports. A lot of things in the networking world were originally conceived on a best effort basis. There are also a lot of networks built simply […]

Today is the last day that Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL) will exist as a publicly traded company. Trading in Novell’s stock will cease at the close of business, as the company is taken private. Novell is being acquired by privately held Attachmate in a deal that closes today. The $2.2 billion acquisitionwas first announced in November of […]

No country wants to be ranked as the top source of hacking attacks, but should the U.S. feel good about falling a few notches in this dubious ranking? Sean Michael Kerner reports. According to the fourth quarter 2010 State of the Internetreport from Akamai, Russia is now the top source of Internet attack traffic in […]

As cloud computing continues to gain adoption, open source cloud computing keeps progressing as well — and perhaps outpaces its proprietary competitor. Sean Michael Kerner reports. Deploying PHP to the cloud is about to get easier thanks to a new partnership between commercial PHP vendor Zend and cloud management firm RightScale. The new RightScale Zend […]

While there are concerns on Wall Street that Google might be hitting a plateau, the search giant reported strong — if not spectacular — revenue increases in its Q1 earnings report. The first quarter of Google’s fiscal 2011 marks not only the beginning of a new year for Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), but also the beginning of […]

Cisco isn’t just a networking hardware vendor, they’re also a consumer of data center technologies that power their own operations. Today Cisco took the wraps off a new 5 megawatt, 30,000 square foot data center in Allen, Texas serving as a hub for Cisco’s own internal private cloud as well as WebEx services. The new […]

Don’t think that tablets are ready for the enterprise? Think again. The tablet market may still be a young one, but it is one that is rapidly becoming very relevant to enterprise IT. How are enterprises using tablets today and what should they be doing to enable tablet use in the future? Gartner Research Vice-President, […]

The virtualization vendor’s new initiative enables a Platform as a Service solution across various cloud infrastructures. Sean Michael Kerner reports. VMware is accelerating its cloud efforts today with the announcement of its new Cloud Foundry project. Cloud Foundry is an open source application platform for the cloud. Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits Protecting your company’s […]