Sean Michael Kerner

The concept of the cloud was born with Amazon’s public cloud, though a new study shows that enterprises in both the U.S. and the U.K. increasingly are interested in a hybrid cloud approach, melding both private and public components. Sixty percent of respondents see a hybrid cloud solution as the right approach for cloud deployment, […]

VMware, perhaps more-so than any other vendor on the planet, is responsible for helping enterprises move to more agile and efficient virtualized server infrastructure. Simply put, VMware is the vendor to beat in the enterprise virtualized server space. When it comes to the cloud though, VMware’s dominance is not a foregone conclusion, with Amazon and […]

Linux Users Have Luxury of Choosing from Diverse Desktop Options By Sean Michael Kerner GNOME Shell Runs on Multiple Linux Distributions The GNOME 3 project has multiple desktop environment options, with the cornerstone default option being the GNOME Shell. GNOME Shell runs on multiple Linux distributions, including Fedora 19 (shown here), and provides an Activities […]

For anyone taking electronic payments, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a critical must-have compliance component in order to do business. Currently the standard is at the PCI-DSS 2.0 level. The new 3.0 standard is now in development, bringing with it policy and procedural changes that will impact the security of the […]

On the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 14, my Twitter feed was overflowing with people noting that the venerable Gray Lady, The New York Times, was offline. Within minutes, the rampant speculation was that The Times had been hacked, which in my initial opinion, wasn’t all that far-fetched. After all, The Times itself admitted in January, […]

The open-source Linux operating system is widely deployed across modern enterprises, and a new study sponsored by enterprise vendor SUSE Linux aims to reveal precisely what workloads Linux is running. The SUSE study asked 167 IT professionals about their usage of Linux in general. Across the survey base, 83 percent indicated that they currently have […]

When it comes to Web development, Adobe’s Dreamweaver (originally from Macromedia) is a well-known and widely deployed tool. Like most of Adobe’s commercial tools, it doesn’t run on Linux. While historically Adobe’s tools haven’t been widely available for Linux users, a new era seems to be starting. Adobe is now building out a number of […]

Tens of millions of users around the world rely on Google’s Gmail service as their email provider, but a recent legal filing from the search giant just might be enough to sway a few of them to choose a different solution. Google is currently going through the motions in the judicial system to defend itself […]

A common capability on many Web server and content management platforms is the ability to perform Remote File Inclusions (RFIs), which allow users to simply upload an image or a file. Yet RFIs might well be the most pervasive threat on the Web today, according to new research published by cloud security firm Incapsula. Incapsula […]

As expected, Microsoft is out today with its monthly Patch Tuesday release for August, delivering fixes for a total of 23 vulnerabilities, spread across eight security bulletins, three of which are rated as being critical. Among the critical fixes are a pair of vulnerabilities that were first privately disclosed to Microsoft at the Hewlett-Packard Zero […]

Members of the open-source Fedora Linux Project gathered at the new Flock conference in Charleston, S.C., from Aug. 9 to 12 to discuss the future of their Linux distribution. It’s a future that could see Fedora take a new path forward that will see the distribution evolve from a general-purpose open-source operating system to a […]

Over the last three years, Google has paid out over $2 million as part of its Chromium and Google Web Vulnerability Programs. In my opinion, those programs have done much more than just secure Google and its direct users—it has helped improve the security of the Web for us all. Back in February 2010, I […]