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Granite was first  announced by Riverbed back in 2012 as part of a broader technology initiative known as the Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure (Edge-VSI). The Granite technology was updated again in July of 2013, providing support for Fibre Channel-based storage in addition to iSCSI-based storage. With the new SteelFusion 3.0 release, Eric Carter, director of […]

This week, Red Hat announced new virtualization and cloud initiatives leveraging open-source container technology, including an effort known as Project Atomic. Paul Cormier, president of Red Hat’s products and technologies, explained to eWEEK that Project Atomic is really a cloud host operating system. With open-source container technology from Docker, instead of requiring a separate operating […]

Mozilla this week named Chris Beard as its interim CEO, filling the position left vacant after Brendan Eich resigned on April 3 after controversy erupted over a 2008 donation he made to the campaign for Proposition 8, an amendment to ban same-sex marriage in California. Eich had been appointed CEO of Mozilla on March 24. […]

Not to diminish the importance of the Heartbleed flaw (which should be patched immediately), but the truth of the matter is that most Websites don’t use SSL properly to begin with, and neither do many end users. Have you ever visited a Website and got a notification for an SSL warning? Many of us have, […]

WordPress blogs around the world began to receive an automatic security update late on April 8 to fix security vulnerabilities. The WordPress 3.8.2 and 3.7.2 updates each provide five security fixes, as well as multiple non-security bug updates. The open-source WordPress content management system is widely deployed around the world and is used to power […]

The open-source Linux ecosystem is one of the most successful examples of collaborative software development. In a new report released today at the Linux Collaboration Summit, the Linux Foundation has attempted to quantify how organizations today are embracing the collaborative development model. The study surveyed 700 business managers and software developers, 91 percent of whom […]

Enrique Salem served as the CEO of Symantec from 2002 until 2012, and in that decade, he learned a lot about what’s important in the security world. Today, Salem sits on the board of directors at multiple companies, including, ForeScout and FireEye, where he helps management set strategic direction. In a video interview with eWEEK, […]

On March 16, 2009, Cisco first formally acknowledged Project California with the official announcement of the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). The first Cisco UCS servers were based on Intel’s Nehalem processor family and powered the UCS B-series blade system. In June of 2009, Cisco expanded its server portfolio with the C-series rack-mounted servers. This […]

The CloudStack 4.3 release is the first major update to CloudStack since the 4.2 release debuted in October. CloudStack is an open-source effort that Citrix donated to Apache in April 2012. The original technology behind CloudStack came to Citrix by way of the acquisition of Cloud.com in 2011. CloudStack 4.3 offers support for Microsoft’s Hyper-V […]

Enrique Salem served as the CEO of Symantec from 2002 until 2012, and in that decade, he learned a lot about what’s important in the security world. Today, Salem sits on the board of directors at multiple companies, including, ForeScout and FireEye, where he helps management set strategic direction. In a video interview with eWEEK, […]

From a deployment perspective, over half of the study’s 600 respondents indicated that they have plans to deploy SDN and NFV in 2014. The OpenDaylight study stands in sharp contrast to a study released at the end of 2013 by QuinStreet Enterprise, publisher of this site, which found that only 15 percent of organizations plan to […]

In a Cumulus Networks-sponsored webcast SDN panel on March 21, Najam Ahmad, Facebook’s director of technical operations, explained why the social networking website has embraced the open SDN model. Ahmad said that when it comes to the reasons SDN makes sense for Facebook, it boils down to two key things: scale and agility. He noted that […]