Sean Michael Kerner

Back in 1984 during the early days of PC Week, Unix was not a new operating system, but it was an operating system that was just beginning to take root in the mainstream of enterprise computing. Unix was first developed in 1969 at AT&T’s Bell Labs. But it was during the mid-1980s when its commercial […]

Hundreds of millions of users around the world freely benefit from Mozilla technologies, including Mozilla’s open-source Firefox Web browser, but that doesn’t mean Mozilla isn’t making any money. Mozilla announced its 2012 earnings this week, reporting record revenue of $311 million. That figure is a far cry from where Mozilla started. In 1998, Netscape (remember […]

openSUSE 13.1: What’s New in the Latest Linux Distribution by Sean Michael Kerner OpenSUSE Is Open-Source Software There are hundreds of different components that make up the openSUSE 13.1 Linux distribution. In one of the first screens of the installation process, users get the License Agreement page, which outlines the open-source component licenses that make […]

If the saying “time is money” is true, then the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 (RHEL) release is very valuable. RHEL 6.5 first made its public appearance as a beta in early October and is now ready for general availability. The RHEL 6.5 release is the second milestone update for Red Hat’s flagship platform […]

“Big data” is one of the hottest terms in IT today as organizations look to extract value from large volumes of unstructured content. With all that data available, proper controls and, more importantly, encryption must be in place to prevent abuse. That’s where new technology from Zettaset comes into play; the company is offering role-based […]

There are a lot of security threats facing mobile device users, and there is a lot of money on the table for vendors that are trying to provide solutions for that problem. One of those vendors is Mojave Networks, which this week announced a $5 million round of funding to fuel its enterprise-class mobile security […]

Open-source Web development organization Mozilla is patching its Firefox Web browser with a rare out-of-band update that addresses five security flaws. The new Firefox 25.0.1 update comes as Mozilla is gearing up its much-anticipated Australis user interface update that will overhaul the way the open-source browser looks. Mozilla moved to a rapid release cycle in […]

Nearly all mobile applications present a risk to users, according to a new report from Hewlett-Packard’s software division. In a study of 2,107 applications published by 601 companies on the Forbes Global 2000, HP found that 97 percent of the apps in some way accessed private information on the user’s device. HP scanned applications to […]

In early October, Adobe admitted that it was the victim of a breach that exposed the usernames and passwords of millions of its users. According to a report from Reuters published late Friday, the impact of the Adobe breach has been felt within the U.S. government. According to an FBI memo seen by Reuters, the […]

Kernel-Based Virtual Machine, more commonly referred to as KVM, is one of the most popular open-source virtualization technologies in use today. Both IBM and Red Hat use it as the basis for their Linux virtualization technologies, and it is the most widely used virtualization technology in the OpenStack cloud as well. KVM was originally written […]