Sean Michael Kerner

While cloud computing and virtualization are today’s leading emerging IT trends, does actual adoption live up to the hype? Sean Michael Kerner reports. The cloud is a topic that is top of mind for many in enterprise IT, but how widely is it actually being deployed now? Networking vendor Cisco this week issued a pair […]

Cisco and BMC are joining forces for a new cloud delivery platform that aims to enable service providers to deploy and secure cloud services. The new solution integrates Cisco’s unified service delivery networking hardware with BMC’s Cloud LifeCycle Management (CLM) solution. With the integrated cloud delivery platform, Cisco and BMC are aiming to accelerate cloud […]

In what may turn out to be Novell’s final earnings report as a public company, revenues continued to fall as the company is set to be acquired. Enterprise software vendor Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL) is on the verge of being acquired for $2.2 billion by Attachmate. For its fourth quarter fiscal 2010, Novell reported net revenue of […]

Goodbye Novell. After months of speculation about who might acquire Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL), the company announced today that it was being sold to enterprise software vendor Attachmate for $2.2 billion. The deal is set to close in the first quarter of 2011. Privately held Attachmate will be paying $6.10 per Novell share, which is a 9 […]

Back in 2006, Raleigh, North Carolina-based rPath helped to pioneer a new market for Linux based software applianceswith the rBuilder service. Now rPath is moving beyond its Linux roots into the Windows world. With rBuilder 5.8, rPath is delivering a service that will enable enterprises to build customized Windows application stacks that can then be […]

It’s often easy to forget that even though Mozilla gives away its flagship product, the Firefox web browser, Mozilla itself still generates millions in revenues from Firefox usage. Mozilla today publicly released its financial statements for 2009, reporting $104 million in revenue for the year. The 2009 revenue tally is a 34 percent increase over […]

Novell officially announced the Baracus open project this week as a new effort to provide a network-based boot manager for provisioning and managing systems. Baracus includes remote boot, provisioning and power management as well as the ability to image, clone and backup systems. With Baracus, Novell is aiming to provide expanded remote boot capabilities beyond […]

Is there trouble ahead in 2011 for the tech industry? Networking giant Cisco reported its first quarter fiscal 2011 earning this week, showing weakness in a few sectors and providing a very conservative outlook for the next quarter. There were a number of key bright spots for Cisco during the quarter, with growth in its […]

RHEL 6 doesn’t target the leading edge of Linux technology, instead focusing on enterprise hardening for stability and long-term security. Sean Michael Kerner reports. Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE:RHAT) today officially released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6). The new RHEL 6 operating system includes new Linux kernel, scalability, virtualization and performance improvements over […]

Having a set of IT policies in place doesn’t mean they’re the optimal policies. Sean Michael Kerner reports. According to a new global study sponsored by Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), 82 percent of IT professionals said that their organizations have an IT policy. When Cisco asked the same question to non-IT employees, only 47 percent of respondents […]

Novell is pushing forward on a cloud-based collaboration platform leveraging the Google Wave federation protocol. The Novell platform was first announced back in March under the name Pulse and is now being rebranded as Novell Vibe with its first open beta release. The Novell Vibe beta comes just a few months after Google abandoned Google […]

While IPv4 address space is nearing exhaustion, service providers and enterprises need to provide access to both current IPv4 and new IPv6 addresses. Managing the enablement of both IPv4 and IPv6 stacks is a challenge that has given rise to multiple different approaches. This week Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) announced that it was adding support for […]