Sean Michael Kerner

Reporter’s Notebook: Early last week at Interop NY, I postulated that there wouldn’t be all that much that is new or surprising coming out of the show. Little did I know that one of the world’s largest and most influential networking vendors, Cisco Systems (Quote, Chart), would not be an exhibitor at the show. Cisco […]

NEW YORK — There’s a lot to be afraid of in the world of network security threats. That was the general consensus of a diverse panel at Interop that included vendors, an analyst and an enterprise user. The panel agreed that NAC (network access control) isn’t necessarily the solution and that much more needs to […]

NEW YORK — Is faster necessarily better? In a boisterous over-capacity and overtime session at Interop here today, vendors debated the merits of WAN and application acceleration and whether transparency is required for them to actually work within enterprise environments. Moderator Erick Siegel, a senior analyst at Burton Group, began the session with a long […]

What’s new in the world of networking? That’s the question on the table this week at the Interop conference in New York. The last Interop, held in Las Vegas earlier this year, yielded a rash of network security, platform and acceleration-related news. The latest iteration shouldn’t be much different. In Las Vegas, Cisco CEO John […]

Symantec (Quote, Chart) and Juniper Networks (Quote, Chart) are about to get a lot closer than they’ve ever been, thanks to a new strategic partnership announced today. But they aren’t going to merge. John W. Thompson, chairman and CEO of Symantec, denied on a morning conference call that a merger with Juniper had been a topic of […]

With the EclipseWorld conference in Boston this week, it would be easy to think the open source Java tools project is everywhere. According to the latest research from Evans Data, it is everywhere with developers. Evans Data is reporting in its 2006 Annual Eclipse Global Enterprise Survey Research Findings that 60 percent of respondents indicated […]

With the EclipseWorld conference kicking off this week in Boston, it would be easy to think the open source Java tools project is everywhere. According to the latest research from Evans Data, it is everywhere with developers. Evans Data is reporting in its 2006 Annual Eclipse Global Enterprise Survey Research Findings that 60 percent of […]

SAN FRANCISCO — There are a lot of things that Linux users and developers say are good about Linux. But at least one notable Linux kernel developer sees plenty not to love. “I think the enterprise stable kernel model doesn’t work,” said Greg Kroah-Hartman, who works closely with Linus Torvalds and Andrew Morton, the keepers […]

As I predicted recently, the LinuxWorld show here last week had a few surprises. And it had its share of same old, same old. The announcement that HP (Quote, Chart) would formally and fully support Debian kicked off the week. It’s a revelation that will fundamentally change the enterprise Linux landscape in a significant way. […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The success of Linux over the past 15 years boils down to a few key factors, according to a panel of Linux luminaries. Larry Augustin, chairman of VA Software, Eric Raymond, founder of the Open Source Institute, Jon Maddog Hall of Linux International, Chris DiBona of Google, and Dirk Hohndel of Intel […]