Sean Michael Kerner

Software Defined Networking (SDN) hype is everywhere in the networking market today. The hype cycle began with Martin Casado’s thesis work at Stanford in 2005. Casado went on to found Nicira Networks, a company acquired by VMware in 2012 for $1.26 billion. In an exclusive interview with Enterprise Networking Planet, Casado discusses the origins of […]

Networking giant Cisco Systems is no stranger to the world of open source software. In 2009, Cisco was identified as one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel; its core IOS XE operating is based on Linux as well. But it has only been in this past week that Cisco has made its largest […]

At the core of Avaya’s unified communications and collaboration portfolio is its Aura platform. While Aura has been available on dedicated hardware and as software, Avaya is now extending the platform with a virtual edition running in an engineered collaboration pod. The Avaya Collaboration Pod is a combination of Avaya software and hardware, together with […]

Juniper is expanding its product portfolio in support of its emerging SDN vision. The expanded portfolio includes a new family of programmable switches, a virtual WLAN controller, and a new network management tool. EX9200 The new Juniper EX9200 is the biggest innovation in the company’s switching line since Juniper first entered the switch market in […]

In recent years, analyst firms and vendors have all jumped on the bandwagon using the terms Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) and Next Generation IPS (NGIPS). The key to both technologies is application visibility, and the difference between the two technologies depends on which vendor you ask. Martin Roesch helped to invent the modern IPS as […]

Content Delivery Network (CDN) vendor Akamai is updating its Kona Site Defender Web Application Firewall this week, with new rules and DDoS mitigations. The Kona Site Defender can use rules from the open source Modsecurity project that provide a baseline on current attack vectors. John Summers, vice president for the security business at Akamai, told […]

Cisco is expanding its data center networking portfolio with a series of new technologies that enables the new world of the software defined data center. Cisco’s goal is to have a networking fabric that ties data centers and the cloud together. To that end, Cisco is expanding on the vision of the Cisco ONE strategy […]

For the most part, wired and wireless networks on the enterprise campus have been two separate entities controlled by different technologies. That’s about to change, thanks to a new suite of Unified Access technologies announced today by Cisco. At the core of the Cisco announcement is new silicon that will enable the convergence of wired […]

There are a number of important differences between a LAN and WAN. For one, Jumbo Frames are common on enterprise LANs, but are not on the WAN. WAN acceleration vendor SilverPeak is aiming to narrow the Jumbo sized gap with the latest version of its core VXOA software. Silver Peak’s Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) […]

Big Switch is a company that is synonymous with Software Defined Networking (SDN), but until today, the company did not have any publicly available commercial offerings. The CEO and Co-Founder of Big Switch is none other than Guido Appenzeller, the former Stanford Professor that helped to usher in the SDN revolution with the OpenFlow protocol. […]

VeriSign has been managing the .com domain registry since 1999. It’s an agreement that has already been renewed once, back in 2006 and is set for renewal this year. While ICANN has already awarded the contract to VeriSign, the deal is now under review by the U.S Department of Justice. Jim Bidzos, executive chairman, president […]

The U.S. Government has put in place an IPv6 mandate that comes into affect on September 30th. That new mandate requires all government agencies to have their public facing websites and email services available over IPv6. At this point, it’s not likely that every government website will meet the deadline, though a large number of […]