Sean Michael Kerner

One of the core components of the On-Demand Data Center is the virtual Brocade vRouter, which had formerly been part of the Vyatta portfolio. Brocade acquired Vyatta in November of 2012. Vyatta had been building a Linux-based networking distribution and associated technologies; Herrell was CEO of Vyatta at the time of the company’s acquisition. With […]

For the first quarter of its fiscal 2013, Riverbed reported revenue of $246 million, a thirty-five percent year-over-year gain. The company reported a net loss of $8.1 million for Q1, in contrast to the $6.9 million net income reported for the same period lastyear. Moving forward, Riverbed provided guidance for total revenue in the second […]

The 3.9 kernel follows the previous Linux 3.8 kernel by just 10 weeks and after eight release candidates. “Whatever the reason, this week has been very quiet, which makes me much more comfortable doing the final 3.9 release, so I guess the last -rc8 ended up working,” Torvalds wrote in a mailing list message. “Because […]

Martin Casado’s thesis work at Stanford in 2005 is the beginning of the SDN revolution.. Casado went on to found Nicira Networks, a company acquired by VMware in 2012 for $1.26 billion. While the work that Casado began at Stanford has helped to create the entire SDN revolution, he’s no longer sure what the term […]

Midokura raised $17.3 million in Series A funding in April and announced that CTO Dan Mihai Dumitriu was taking over the CEO role. In an exclusive interview at the recent OpenStack Summit, Dumitriu told Enterprise Networking Planet what makes his company different and where it might be headed. Dumitriu noted that MidoNet uses an overlay […]

The largest DDoS on record hit the Internet at the end of March. A pair of studies released this week from Arbor Networks and Akamai Technologies further reinforces the notion that DDoS is a growing threat, depending on how you interpret the data. DDoS Getting Bigger According to Arbor, at the end of the first […]

Yes, of course there will be GIFs.White House announcing that the President Obama is not on Tumblr (Whitehouse.tumblr.com) “GE is a 130-year old company, so we always like to be around you youngsters and help create the future with you” GE CEO, Jeff Immelt, commenting during the Pivotal launch event, a company he just invested […]

For the quarter, F5 reported revenue of $350.2 million, a three percent year-over-year gain, with $63.4 million net income, or $0.80 per share. Moving forward, F5 provided guidance for a third quarter revenue target in the range of $355 to $365 million. “During the quarter, we experienced difficulties in closing certain forecasted deals, as customers […]

GE announced this week that it is investing $105 million in startup Pivotal. Pivotal was officially launched at a media event on Wednesday and is made up of technology assets spun out of EMC and VMware. Pivotal’s technologies include VMware’s CloudFoundry Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) as well as a Hadoop distribution called Pivotal HD based on Greenplug […]

The Ubuntu 13.04, aka The Raring Ringtail release, is out this week and is a standard (non-LTS) release. The difference between an LTS release and a standard release is support length, which is a big deal for server users in production. LTS releases receive five years of support, while standard releases only get 9 months. […]

VMware reported first quarter fiscal 2013 earnings late Tuesday, with revenue at $1.19 billion, for a 13 percent year-over-year gain. Net income was reported at $174 million, or $0.40 per share. Looking forward, VMware provided second quarter guidance for revenue to range from $1.21 billion to $1.24 billion, representing growth of between approximately 8 percent […]

For Q1 2013, Juniper reported revenue of $1.06 billion, a three percent year-over-year gain. Net income came in at $91 million, or $0.18 per share. Moving forward, the company provided Q2 guidance for revenues to range from $1.07 to $1.10 billion. While Juniper’s service provider business continues to grow, its enterprise networking business has faltered. […]