Sean Michael Kerner

Money can’t buy everything, especially when it comes to freely available open source software from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The ASF is now celebrating its 10th anniversary as a non-profit foundation that has grown from its initial project, the Apache HTTP Web Server, to more than 60 projects today. The Apache HTTP Web Server […]

A trio of tech heavyweights on Tuesday announced an alliance that’s targeting the lucrative corporate datacenter market where enterprise customers are racing to virtualize their data workloads and develop private cloud architecture for disparate applications and business processes. Executives at the three companies said the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition will “help organizations simplify and […]

In the enterprise, developers are often working on code for software even as it’s already in production use by IT operations people. But what happens when that code still has bugs? How does operations communicate back to developers, and vice-versa? The problem of integrating developer tools with operations tools is one that is now being […]

Networking vendor Brocade is often thought of as just being a datacenter player — a perception that company executives are keen to change. Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) also has enterprise campus as well as service provider offerings competing against the big boys of carrier networking like Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), Juniper (NASDAQ: JNPR) and Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU). […]

With more than 8 million users, Ubuntu Linux is among the most popular Linux distributions. But what is its mission? What are Ubuntu and Canonical, its lead commercial sponsor, really all about? Ubuntu has desktop and server releases, and is gearing up both user and cloud services, all of which are set to be updated […]

The networking world is now at a cross roads with increasing demands for more bandwidth while at the same time trying to deal with effects of a global recession. But it’s not all doom and gloom. According to a Supercomm conference panel of top technology officers from Verizon (NYSE:VZ), AT&T (NYSE:T), Sprint (NYSE:S), Quest (NYSE:Q) […]

Cisco’s new ISR 3900 routerSource: Cisco At the core of Cisco’s traditional networking business is its networking routers — and specifically the popular ISR (Integrated Services Router), which has sold more than 7 million units. Now the ISR is getting a major refresh with a new generation of routing, processing, video and scalability features. Cisco’s […]

There is a lot of buzz in the tech media world about the upcoming Ubuntu Karmic Koala release, but it’s not the only Linux release on its way from a major vendor. Novell’s (NASDAQ: NOVL) community-driven openSUSE project is nearing completion of its next major release, version 11.2 The first release candidate for openSUSE 11.2 […]

How do you make money from Linux in the cloud? One potential route could be to open a store. As part of its upcoming Karmic Koala release, Ubuntu Linux is set to integrate a number of new cloud technologies. One of the efforts will include a cloud software appliance store to help expedite setup and […]

The promise of Cisco’s unified computing system (UCS) is its ability to tie servers, LANs and SANs together by way of virtualization. But while the system provides a degree of network consolidation, it also has the ability to generate more virtual server traffic than traditional network interfaces are typically designed to handle. To that end, […]

Why is Linux vendor Red Hat successful during the current recession? It was a question put to company executives during Red Hat’s (NYSE: RHT) Analyst Day event Webcast live from New York today. The executives explained that open source leadership is key to Red Hat’s success, but that the firm is also branching out into […]

The “Karmic Koala”  aka Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Beta, Server and Netbook editions,and the Ubuntu Netbook Remix are now available. The final release is now only a few weeks away and the Beta is a major milestone. I’d expect to see a whole lot more users try out the Beta than the Alpha versions as Ubuntu […]