Sean Michael Kerner

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 […]

For years, the scourge of the Internet has been ever increasing volumes of spam that clog inboxes around the world. According to a new report from Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), 2010 was the first year on record that spam volumes actually declined. Cisco’s report also points out some counter-intuitive data about which types of technologies are being […]

EnterpriseDB is out this week with Postgres Plus Standard Server version 9, updating their commercially supported version of the open source PostgeSQL database. The open source community version of PostgreSQL 9 debutedin September 2010, adding new database replication and scalability features. In addition to the new PostgreSQL Plus Standard Server release, EnterpriseDB is delivering new […]

The MySQL database is headed to the cloud, thanks to software vendor Xeround. Starting this week the Xeround cloud database is being made available as a public beta. While Xeround leverages components of the open source MySQL database, the cloud solution itself is not open source. Xeround also includes its own proprietary components which exapand […]

Next generation firewall, IPS and anti-malware, anti-virus capabilities could be coming together soon. IPS vendor Sourcefire (NASDAQ:FIRE) announced that it is acquiring privately held anti-malware vendor Immunet for $21 million in cash. Immunet develops cloud-based anti-malware capabilities for consumers. The two companies have been partners for several years with the joint ClamAV for Windows Desktop […]

Cisco is increasing its focus on open source as it continues to build its presence in cloud computing. Sean Michael Kerner reports. The move to cloud-based infrastructure is one that is set to dominate networking discussions in 2011. One of the leaders in the move to cloud is networking giant Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO), which provides servers, […]

The worlds of cellular and Wi-Fi communications are about to get a whole lot closer. Mobile silicon technology vendor Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced its intention to acquire Wi-Fi silicon vendor Atheros (NASDAQ:ATHR) in a deal valued at $3.1 billion. Qualcomm will pay $45 for each Atheros share and the deal is expected to close […]

Novell could remain a public company for a bit longer than first anticipated. In November, privately held software vendor Attachmate announced its intention to acquire Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) for $2.2 billion. Part of the Novell acquisition involves another deal with a group called CPTN Holdings, which is set to acquire 882 Novell patents for $450 […]

Oracle is out this week with the Open Office 3.3 and Oracle Cloud Office 1.0 releases, introducing new features and technologies to users. The OpenOffice.org open source office suite is a key piece of technology that Oracle acquired as part of its purchase of Sun Microsystems. Open Office is also an area of controversy for […]