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Security startup Bluebox Security has raised $18 million in a round of Series B funding to advance its vision for mobile security. Total funding for Bluebox Security now stands at $27.5 million. Bluebox rose to public notoriety in the summer of 2013 with the disclosure of what is known as the Android Master Key vulnerability—a […]

“What I learned from Gluster is, if you want to be open-source and you want to make a difference, you have to be radically different and present a significantly newer way of doing things.” – Ben Golub, CEO of Docker (eWEEK) “You’ve heard me say we get to plant acorns that will eventually become oak […]

HONG KONG—There are a lot of acronyms in the cloud marketplace, and according to the head of the OpenStack Foundation, none of them really matter all that much to people who really matter—the users. Speaking in a keynote session here at the OpenStack Summit, Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, explained what OpenStack […]

Can the development model that is used to build Linux be extended for the life sciences? A new collaborative project will aim to answer that question. The Linux Foundation is growing its roster of collaboration projects by expanding from the physical into the biological realm with the OpenBEL (Biological Expression Language). The Linux Foundation, best […]

The new bug bounty programs include the Mitigation Bypass Bounty, which will earn security researchers up to $100,000. The Mitigation Bypass is for research that demonstrates what Microsoft refers to as “truly novel exploitation techniques” against Windows 8.1 Preview. Microsoft will also pay up to $11,000 for bugs that researchers find in the IE 11 […]

Securing SDN is similar to securing all other forms of IT. It’s about threat modeling, risk analysis and being able to attach policy to the workloads. “I don’t think there is anything that SDN brings to the table, when we think from a threat modeling perspective, that we have not seen before, any time we’ve […]

SAP reported its fourth-quarter fiscal 2012 and full-year results this week, highlighting a number of key trends including the cloud. SAPs 2012 revenue came in at $16 billion for a 14 percent year-over-year growth rate. “I know many people were curious as to what SAP would do after its best year ever in 2011,” said […]

As it turns out, SDN is ideally suited to help enable security. One company that is aiming to leverage the power of SDN for security is startup TaaSERA. TaaSERA is set to officially launch its suite of malware security products at the end of the month. Sriniva Kumar, CTO of TaaSERA, explained to Enterprise Networking […]

Cisco used the CES 2013 event this week to announce a trio of announcements, including new video, Wi-Fi and home security efforts. Cisco is updating its Videoscape video delivery platform with the new Videoscape Unity effort. Videoscape Unity includes the ability to have cloud-backed Digital Video Recording and provides a new user interface. Videoscape Unity […]

From the ‘fine print’ files: The W3C announced today that the HTML5 definition is now complete. This is a big deal for the web and all of us that work and use it…but it’s not end of the story. The definition is not a final standard for HTML5, though it is an important milestone. HTML5 […]

From the ‘Open Source CMS that Rules Them All’ files: That’s right I called WordPress a CMS (Content Management System) and not a blogging platform. With WordPress 3.5, officially released on Tuesday, the CMS moves forward with some incremental features. I’m a user of both self-hosted as well WordPress.com sites so I’ve noticed some of […]

HP is  dipping into the PaaS market with its new HP Cloud Application Platform-as-a-Service offering. The HP PaaS leverages technology from the Stackato PaaS from ActiveState. Stackato in turn is based on VMware’s open source CloudFoundry PaaS and provides some additional language and development capabilities. “Stackato brings multi-language PaaS capabilities to HP Cloud Services,” ActiveState […]