Sean Michael Kerner

Akamai Technologies announced on Oct. 11 that it is acquiring privately held DNS solutions vendor Nominum. The all-cash deal is expected to close at the end of the current quarter. Nominum was founded in 1998 by DNS inventor Paul Mockapetris and has raised approximately $41 million in funding over the course of existence. Since 2011, […]

Saar Gillai has a new job. Networking startup Teridion on Oct. 10 named Gillai as the company’s new CEO The affable technology executive spent six years at Hewlett Packard, leading the company’s NFV, cloud and networking efforts at various points. Gillai joined HP as part of the 3Com acquisition that closed in April 2010. “Saar […]

For many enterprise workstations, 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) Ethernet Network Interface Cards (NICs) represent the normal top end. Dell is now set to change that situation by adopting Aquantia AQtion NICs that can deliver Multi-Gig capabilities. Dell’s OptiPlex 7050 series workstations are now shipping with the Aquantia Multi-gig NICs. Among the configurable options for […]

There likely is no more hostile network on the planet than the one at the DEF CON security conference. The annual security conference hosts up to 30,000 attendees and in the vendor area openly sells hacker tools that help to enable users to hack the network. In a video tour of the Network Operations Center […]

Juniper Networks is currently building out an intent-based networking capability that will use a Software Defined Networking (SDN) controller model. The basic idea behind intent-based networking is rather than having a predefined, rigid set of policies that define network operations, the network is more agile and is able to react to the ‘intent’ of the […]

Look under the sheet metal on networking switches from multiple vendors and more likely than not, there is Broadcom silicon inside. Broadcom is now advancing its silicon with a new generation of Trident 3, powering a new portfolio of programmable switches. The StataXGS Trident 3 switch series extends Broadcom’s widely deployed StrataXGS Trident and Tomahawk […]

Nokia is evolving its core networking capabilities that the company gained through the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent for $16.6 billion in April 2016. Among the new technologies is the FP4 silicon, which is a 2.4 Terabit per second network processor, the 7750 Service Router and the 7950 Extensible Routing System (XRS). The FP4 silicon is the […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) wants to be a bigger player in the switching market. At HPE’s Discover conference today, its Aruba Networks division announced the new Aruba 8400 core and aggregation switch platform. The Aruba 8400x switch series provides a top-end performance of up to 19.2 terabits per second of switching capacity. The switch is […]

Network security vendor Fortinet is expanding its product portfolio with a new Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) product, suitably named FortiCASB. The CASB market has been busy in recent years as vendors and enterprises alike rush to connect on-premises users and authentication systems with cloud delivered applications and services. While some vendors have partnered with […]

It’s a situation that many have faced at one point or another – multiple devices, each with their own clock and each showing a different time. The challenge can be a simple annoyance, but it’s also a real risk for data synchronization and live media. The new Wi-Fi TimeSync initiative led by the Wi-Fi Alliance […]

The first time I wrote about PLUMgrid was in June 2013, when the company emerged from stealth with $10.7 million in funding and a dream to enable the Software Defined Networking (SDN) market. Three and a half years later, that dream is dead as PLUMgrid is gone, with some of its assets and employees joining […]

Cisco today announced that it is acquiring privately-held Heroik Labs Inc., doing business as Worklife. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Worklife had raised approximately $1.02 million in funding and was founded in 2014. Some meetings are more productive than others. The goal of Worklife is to help make meetings more productive with […]