Sean Michael Kerner

LAS VEGAS — Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is not all hype, it’s here now, though some issues remain to be solved. That’s the message coming out of a panel here at the Interop conference this week on VDI delivery. Panelists included representatives from vendor firms Citrix, VMware, Red Hat and Teradici. The issues that could […]

LAS VEGAS — First, the bad news: The economy’s state is as bad as you think it is, or maybe even worse. That’s got enterprise IT managers feeling like they’re falling into a black hole — where they’re trying to contend with increasing traffic demands but declining budgets, researchers at IDC said. Yet IDC says […]

LAS VEGAS. Google’s answer to Amazon’s S3 cloud storage service is coming ‘within weeks’ according to Mike Repass, Product Manager at Google. Repass was on the stage at the Interop Enterprise Cloud summit talking about Google’s AppEngine and related cloud initiatives. Repass’ mention of Google’s cloud storage service is not the first time Google has […]

Running a full Java middleware stack in a production environment is often about more than just having an application server. Red Hat’s JBoss division today announced a new solution for managing the business rules that are needed as part of a full middleware stack. JBoss Enterprise Business Rules Management System (BRMS) 5.0, is an open […]

From the ‘it’s time to get smart about power‘ files: The Smart Grid, the idea of transforming the century old electrical grid in the United States into a more efficient and optimized platform for electricity management and delivery is big business. It’s a business in which networking giant Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) is very interested in playing […]

The race is on for networking vendors to get their share of the $7 billion in broadband grants being offered through the Obama administration’s massive economic stimulus bill. At its core, the program will involve billions in new networking gear to help improve the state of broadband in the United States, and networking vendors like […]

KDE 4.3.0 Beta 1 is now available for testing and there sure are a whole lot of new things to look at on this Linux desktop GUI. While KDE 4.0 when it was first released showed lots of promise, but plenty of flaws, both KDE 4.1 and 4.2 have made some significant improvements. With KDE […]

While most technology vendors are seeing revenue declines as a result of the recession, VeriSign is reporting a revenue gain for its first quarter of 2009. It’s secret? Growth in domain name sales. VeriSign reported that revenues in its naming business, which includes .com and .net registrations, grew 17 percent on a year-over-year basis. Mark […]

OpenOffice.org today released version 3.1 of its office productivity suite, with claims of enhanced features, improved performance and better graphics. OpenOffice is a critical component of the open source ecosystem, providing a free alternative to Microsoft Office for both Windows and Linux users. With the new release, developers are aiming building on the success of […]

PHP developers will have new ways to easily connect their PHP applications to the cloud, thanks to the latest version of the open source Zend Framework. Zend Framework 1.8 expands the PHP framework to work with Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing service. Zend Framework has also added new rapid application development (RAD) features to accelerate PHP […]