Sean Michael Kerner

Nearly seven months after it bought security firm Ironport for $830 million, Cisco (Quote)is leveraging the investment into a new strategic direction.

Reporter's Notebook: Convergence. Triple Play. IP. Ethernet. After four days at NXTcomm in Chicago, I probably heard each of those words 1,000 times or

CHICAGO -- Convergence has been a key IT buzzword for years. For Alcatel-Lucent it means a few different things, because it applies to both IT

Government users, it's time to trust Linux vendor Red Hat (Quote). After over a year and a half of effort, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has now achieved the

Novell and its former partner Open-Xchange are updating their collaboration offers in an effort to make their respective products more feature rich for

Mobile Linux growth is accelerating, but mobile Linux standards have not kept pace until now. The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum is finally ready to

Mozilla has finally, after much delay, put its new book-marking system in a Firefox build. Places, originally expected to be a key part of Firefox 2.x but

After nearly two years of development, the open source Apache Synapse enterprise service bus (ESB) is ready for prime time with its 1.0 milestone release.

One year from now the U.S. government will be running IPv6 (define) across its IT infrastructure. Maybe. In the third volume of its report to the

Enterprise CIOs typically have to make a platform decision about whether they will run enterprise applications on JavaEE or .NET 2.0. It's a decision that

UPDATED: Novell was the first Linux vendor to get Microsoft's intellectual property assurance pledge. But it might not be the last. Xandros and Microsoft

The Xen open source project released Xen 3.1 hypervisor with a little help from Intel, IBM, Novell, VA Linux (Japan), HP, Fujitsu, SGI, Red Hat, AMD, Sun,