Sean Michael Kerner

In an interview with Enterprise Networking Planet, Jane Li, Chief Operating Officer, Huawei Enterprise USA, explained that her group only got started in the U.S in 2011. Its focus has always been the U.S. market and for the last two years she has been focussed on making sure that Huawei knows was enterprises in the […]

Alcatel-Lucent is adding new connectivity options to the OmniSwitch 6900 top-of-rack switch. First announced in April 2011, the 6900 platform only had optical interfaces for 10 GbE before being expanded with 40 GbE networking modules. It now also offers copper-based 10GBaseT options. Cliff Grossner, senior director of product marketing, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet that […]

The new JunosV Contrail controller builds on technology that Juniper gained when it acquired Contrail at the end of 2012 for $176 million. “This is the lynchpin technology. This is what takes SDN from being an isolated item and really brings the network into the cloud age,” Brad Brooks, VP of marketing and business strategy […]

Microsoft issued an advisory late Friday, warning of a critical flaw in IE 8 that could lead to a remote code execution attack. The flaw only impacts IE 8, according to Microsoft and does not affect IE 6, 7, 9 or 10. “In the latest watering hole attack against Department of Labor (DoL), our research […]

From the ‘Vendor Defined’ networking: LAS VEGAS- For me, open source is mother and it is father. It is a better way to build software and it’s also a better way to build networking too. I sat in a session today at the Interop conference, led by Stuart Bailey, a name that is familiar to […]

Much like last year, SDN and BYOD will dominate sessions and the Interop exhibit hall, set to showcase over 300 exhibitors this time around. The hands-on OpenFlow InteropNet lab and operations center, seen in 2011 and 2012, will return to the show floor. But this year, there’s a difference. Jennifer Jessup, Interop’s general manager, told […]

Cloud computing is a big business already for HP.  Saar Gillai, SVP and GM for Converged Cloud at HP said that in 2012, HP did approximately $3.9 billion in cloud business. The current forecast is for cloud revenue to surpass $8 Billion in 2015. Growth in the cloud is coming from multiple locations. There are […]

“I put down a lot of my success in OpenStack to the fact that I’ve been through this before with GNOME”Red HatSenior Principal Software Engineer, Mark McLoughlin. (InternetNews) “Virtualization gives you efficiency, but it doesn’t give you speed”Saar Gillai, SVP and GM for Converged Cloud at HP (Datamation) “The bad guys get to choose what […]

Helping to lead Red Hat’s OpenStack efforts is Senior Principal Software Engineer, Mark McLoughlin. McLoughlin isn’t just a leader at Red Hat, he was also the leading contributor by code commits to the recent OpenStack Grizzly release. In an exclusive video interview with Datamation (see below), McLoughlin explains how his years of experience in the […]

The top two vulnerabilities identified by Whitehat during 2012 by prevalence were Information Leakage at 55 percent and Cross Site Scripting at 53 percent. Content Spoofing came in third at 33 percent, Cross Site Request Forgery in fourth at 26 percent tied with Brute Force. Whitehat’s Brute Force vulnerability class is not quite the same […]

HP is positioning its new FlexFabric 12900 platform as the industry’s first OpenFlow-enabled core switching platform. A big box 23 RU switch with up to 20.5 Tbps of switching capacity, the 12916 supports 768 x 10 GbE ports. The 12910 switch is a 21 RU platform with up to 12.8 Tbps of switching capacity and […]

This week Cloudera is officially declaring Impala to be generally available and ready for deployment. “Impala is a parallel database query engine that runs natively on top of the Hadoop platoform,” Charles Zedlewski, VP of Product at Cloudera, explained to Enterprise Apps Today. “It runs natively on Hadoop storage, with the same schema, Hive metastore […]