Sean Michael Kerner

The past year has been a good one for Linux vendor Red Hat, and as it looks forward to its fiscal 2011, the outlook remains strong. That’s due at least in part to new customer wins and partnership initiatives the enterprise Linux player unveiled this week. Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) is set to report its first-quarter […]

Most IT systems generate log files and hidden within them could be the answer to some enterprise IT security issues. Security information and event management (SIEM) vendor LogRhythm this week announced an update to its platform, providing enterprises with increased visibility into the real-time log files of their IT assets. The LogRhythm release comes as […]

WordPress, one of the most popular blogging applications, is out this week with a major update. WordPress 3.0 includes 1,217 bug fixes and a long list of new features developed with the efforts of 218 contributors. WordPress is available as an open source download that anyone can setup and install on their own server as […]

IBM is enhancing its portfolio of application-development security technologies and services this week, offering improved access, source-code analysis and security-assessment services. The new releases from IBM (NYSE: IBM) include the AppScan Source Code Edition, Tivoli Access Manager and a services capability for source code assessment. With the product rollout, IBM is expanding its efforts to […]

Apple’s new iPhone 4stole the headlines this week, but it wasn’t the company’s only big news coming out of its Worldwide Developers Conference. On Monday, Apple also officially released the Safari 5 Web browser for both Mac and Windows users. The new Safari 5 browser debuts as competition in the market for new browsers using […]

Enterprises and telcos gobbled up switches and routers during first quarter, according to new industry analyst research — a development that points to reinvigorated interest among IT buyers in networking gear. According to IDC‘s Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Networks Tracker report for the first quarter of 2010, Ethernet switch revenues ballooned by 35.3 percent on a […]

For some, the name LISP conjures up memories of an old programming language. For others, LISP has a different meaning that is rooted in the future of Internet routing. LISP is an acronym for Locator ID Separation Protocol, which is a new standard for routing under discussion at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The […]

It’s been a tough quarter quarter for Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) as questions about its future ownership remain on the table. Novell is also facing pricing pressure on its Linux business as renewals come up on Microsoft’s SUSE Linux Enterprise subscriptions. Novell this week reported its second-quarter fiscal 2010 earnings, showing a decline in revenue, whihc […]

What happens when you use a different browser on your desktop than the one you use on your iPhone? For Mozilla Firefox users, that question could soon be an easier one to answer, thanks to the Firefox Home for iPhone app, now currently under development. With Firefox Home, Mozilla is aiming to enable Firefox users […]

Google’s Chrome 5 Web browser is now available as a stable release for Mac and Linux, extending the availability of a stable version of the service to the three major operating systems. The first stable release for Mac and Linux users comes after nearly a year of development in the dev and beta channels of […]