Sean Michael Kerner

Check Point Software Technologies is updating its Software Blade Architecture for network security services with the R77 release today. The R77 release provides new threat emulation capabilities that are intended to help limit the risk of zero-day exploits. The Software Blade Architecture is Check Point’s platform for delivering multiple “blades” of security capabilities, including firewall, […]

The Linux Foundation is growing its roster of collaboration projects by expanding from the physical into the biological realm with the OpenBEL (Biological Expression Language). The Linux Foundation, best known as the organization that helps bring Linux vendors and developers together, is also growing its expertise as a facilitator for collaborative development projects. “Companies in […]

The VMware faithful gathered by the thousands today at San Francisco’s Moscone Center to hear CEO Pat Gelsinger detail the future of virtualization and their place in it, during the company’s 10th annual VMworld event. During his keynote, Gelsinger (pictured) announced new server, storage and networking virtualization solutions. Gelsinger’s first appearance as the CEO of […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) was hit with a service interruption on Sunday, Aug. 25, that caused four hours of degraded service for customers of its US-EAST data center availability zone and knocked a number of virtual machine instances offline. The degraded service was the result of an issue with a single networking device that failed. […]

VMworld is an event that highlights the latest and greatest in technology from VMware, but it is also a place where rivals show off their competitive wares. One such rival is enterprise Linux vendor Red Hat, which is demoing its upcoming CloudForms 2.1 cloud management technology today at the VMware VMworld event in San Francisco. […]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is retiring inside of the next 12 months, in a move that I personally see as yet another exit of the old guard of Microsoft. Ballmer has been the CEO of Microsoft since 2000, which was a very different time for both Microsoft and the computing industry as a whole. In […]

The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) is continuing its campaign of attacking online media sites by way of third-party widgets with an alleged attack this week against ShareThis.com. The SEA is a group with ties to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and last week was implicated in an attack that redirected traffic from The Washington Post. Jaeson […]

Nginx, the commercial vendor behind the open-source Nginx Web server, is growing its solution portfolio this week with the release of the Nginx Plus Web server. Nginx Plus provides a bundled package that delivers additional enterprise capabilities to organizations, including application health checking, load balancing and high availability. The open-source Nginx Web server has emerged […]

In our modern world, where we’re all hyper-sensitive to the relentless onslaught of cyber-attacks, any time a major site, service or piece of infrastructure stops working properly, the immediate speculation is that hackers are to blame. On the afternoon of Thursday, Aug. 22, the NASDAQ exchange halted trading for nearly 4 hours. The exchange publicly […]

Privately held open-source services and support vendor OpenLogic is being acquired by software services development firm Rogue Wave Software. Financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed, though OpenLogic CEO Steven Grandchamp told eWEEK that all existing staff are set to be retained. The acquisition of OpenLogic could serve as a catalyst that will […]

Thirty days ago on July 22, I was on a phone call with Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu Linux, talking about his audacious plan to raise $32 million to build a phone. The plan was to raise the money through community crowdfunding site Indiegogo to build the Ubuntu Edge smartphone. The Ubuntu Edge […]

The financial market grinds to a standstill as a “glitch” hits the major exchange. New York’s second largest financial exchange halted all trading on Thursday after a technical issue raised alarm bells about the integrity of the stock quote system. The NASDAQ Exchange halted trading at 12:20 p.m. EDT. A market summary note on Nasdaq.com […]