Sean Michael Kerner

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 […]

The Drupal content management system (CMS) is one of the most successful open source projects on the Internet today, thanks in no small part to its community. At the head of the Drupal community is the project’s founder, Dries Buytaert, who started the project ten years ago in his dorm room. In 2008, Buytaert helped […]

Building software in a waterfall approach where there is a big milestone release at the end of the process, isn’t conducive to success in the modern world, according to top executives from the NYSE and GE. Speaking at the Zendcon PHP developers conference, Robert Kerner, vice-president at New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) told developers in […]

Red Hat has numerous cloud initiatives, but Fedora is its own separate project and doesn’t always align with Red Hat’s corporate cloud initiatives. However, the brand new Fedora 14 is definitely cloud-ready. Sean Michael Kerner reports. The Red Hat sponsored Fedora Linux distribution has unveiled its second release of 2010. Fedora 14, codenamed “Laughlin,” introduces […]

PHP has long been used as one of the primary languages for the web. With the help of some new tools, commercial PHP backer Zend is now helping to position PHP for the cloud too. At the ZendCon conference in Santa Clara, California, Zend today announced the general availability of the Zend Studio 8.0 IDE […]