Sean Michael Kerner

Sean Michael Kerner is an Internet consultant, strategist, and contributor to several leading IT business web sites.
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Open Source iSCSI Gains Traction

Linux and iSCSI are two technologies that are gaining ground in the storage space. And thanks to a reborn...

US-CERT: Veritas Vulnerability Exploited

The Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT (Computer Emergency Readiness Team) has issued an alert stating that Veritas Backup Exec...

RAID Revs for the Future

Seventeen years ago this month, David Patterson, Garth Gibson and Randy Katz published their landmark research paper, A Case...

SATA Presence in Enterprises Growing

Serial ATA (SATA) is fast becoming a standard part of enterprise storage environments. Storage vendors are placing SATA drives...

Linux’s Growing Role in Storage

SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel or iSCSI, it all sits on an operating system. Sometimes that OS is UNIX, other...

Sierra Logic Makes SATA Play Nicely with...

Fibre Channel drives have long been known to be a critical yet relatively expensive piece of hardware. A new...

QLogic, Emulex Results Bode Well for Storage

After struggling for much of last year, QLogic and Emulex finished the fourth quarter with a bang,...

SOX Deadline Arrives

After months of preparation and trepidation, Sarbanes-Oxley arrives Monday for U.S. publicly traded companies.The result has been a boon...

Linux Networx Launches Clustered Storage

Linux cluster vendor Linux Networx has released the Xilo scalable clustered storage system.Combining management software, scalable file systems and...