Sean Michael Kerner

Email is a tough business. Just ask networking giant Cisco. After just over a year of trying to make a market for its own Linux-powered hosted email service, Cisco is calling it quits. “The product has been well received, but we’ve since learned that customers have come to view their email as a mature and […]

While some aspects of the tech market have been slow to recover from the downturn, clearly the network equipment is seeing dramatic growth. Sean Michael Kerner reports. According to a new report from Infonetics Research, the market for Service Provider routers and switches continued to grow at a double-digit pace in 2010. The company reports […]

Every math student knows that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. It’s a lesson that networking vendors are beginning to learn, too. Avaya is now implementing the new IEEE 802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging standard, a straight line approach to help networks take the shortest path between two points. Avaya’s embrace of […]

Not far now. Novell shareholders have voted in favor of a deal that will see their company merged with Attachmate. The $2.2 billion deal was first announced in November 2010, following months of speculation about the future of Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) as an independent company. In a special meeting of shareholders this week, 99 percent […]

Cisco’s competitors have gained ground on the network giant recently, yet the company has a new solution to keep the momentum in its favor. Sean Michael Kerner reports. Cisco is rolling out a new security framework this week at the RSA security conference in San Francisco. The new framework, called SecureX, goes beyond the self-defending […]

Still an underdog in the browser race, Chrome 9 benefits from cash payouts to those who report its vulnerabilities. Google recently awarded security researchers $3,000 for reported flaws as part of the Chromium Security Award. Sean Michael Kerner reports. Google released its Chrome 9 stable Web browser less than a week ago, fixing at least […]

It’s a sign of the Web’s exponential growth these last several years: the IPv4 protocol is now exhausted. Sean Michael Kerner reports on the transition to a new Internet era. In a sense, this week marked the end of an era for the Internet. The last five blocks of Internet addresses available under the IPv4 […]

The OpenStack open source cloud computing platform is out today with a new release codenamed Bexar, introducing new cloud computing and storage technologies. Bexar provides support for IPv6 as well as the ability to have unlimited storage. The Bexar release also includes preliminary support for Glance – a new technology that will enable cloud image […]

In remaining doubt lingered, the latest report on mobile usage confirms it: the smartphone is the computing device of the 21st century. Sean Michael Kerner reports. Cisco is forecasting that mobile data video traffic will continue to grow and that by 2015, video will represent 66 percent of all mobile data. Most of the growth […]

Verizon is taking aim at the cloud with a $1.4 billion acquisition bid for services vendor Terremark. Verizon (NYSE: NASDAQ:VZ) is offering $19 per Terremark (NASDAQ:TMRK) share, a 35 percent premium over the closing price on Jan. 27. Verizon expects the deal to close by the end of the first quarter. Verizon plans to operate […]

The benefits of virtualization, offering IT organizations the opportunity to consolidate and reduce costs, can also extend to scalability and reliability for the most mission-critical workloads, including those that serve medical facilities. Moses Cone Health System is a group that operates five hospitals as well as a regional cancer center in the United States. The […]

Application whitelisting is coming to Linux and Mac platforms. To date, application whitelisting vendor CoreTrace has offered its Bouncer technology just for Windows, yet is now set to expand the effort due to market demand and opportunity. According to CoreTrace, Linux and Mac users face some of the same types of application risks as their […]