Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Multi-tenant VM Security’ files: Apache CloudStack is being updated to version 4.0.2 today fixing at least 40 bugs. From my perspective two of the flaws are particularly interesting and those are the security flaws. CVE-2013-2756 is a flaw that could potentially enable an attacker to gain unauthorized access to another person’s virtual machines. […]

In the fourth quarter of 2012, Akamai reported the global average connection speed at 2.9 Mbps, a twenty-three percent year-over-year gain. Global average peak connection speeds rose by thirty-five percent, to 16.6 Mbps. David Belson, author of the SOTI report, told Enterprise Networking Planet that several factors drive the global growth of Internet speeds. “One […]

Regardless of the point of origination of a data breach incident, the majority of attacks are after user identity and authentication systems. Verizon found that 76 percent of network intrusions took advantage of weak or stolen usernames and passwords. “The identity management system is under attack here,” Jacobs said. “We’re seeing a targeting of credentials […]

IBM’s POWER based system revenue was also down significantly during the first quarter of 2013 suffering a 31 percent decline. “Our declines were driven by both the high performance computing segment, where we had a strong performance last year, and the impact of the transition to POWER7+,” IBM CFO Loughridge said. The POWER7+ server lineup […]

The relationship between WildFly and JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is analogous to the relationship between Fedora Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat terminated its Red Hat Linux product line in 2003, evolving to the Fedora Core Linux community. Fedora serves as an upstream project for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. “So WildFly will be […]

Six months ago at the OpenStack Summit in San Diego, OSSG members Bryan Payne, who works for Nebula, and Robert Clarke, cloud security architect at HP, detailed what they saw as points of concern in OpenStack. At a session in the Portland OpenStack Summit last week, Payne and Clarke were back, updating the community on […]

Saar Gillai joined HP in May of 2010 as part of the $2.7 Billion acquisition of 3Com and most recently was the CTO for HP Networking. He know leads HP’s cloud efforts. “I spent a lot of my time looking at how we would provide network solutions for the cloud,” Gillai said. “I also got […]

Xen’s move to the Linux Foundation overall is seen as a very positive one from Rackspace’s standpoint. Rackspace’s Troy Toman commented that since Xen had been run by Citrix, there was a notion that perhaps it was a bit more proprietary than KVM. “I think this is a good move by Citrix — that Xen […]

In an exclusive interview  at the OpenStack Summit, Shuttleworth talks about OpenStack in production environments and why a little magic known as Juju is a pivotal part of it all. The word ‘juju’ means magic, in the same African languages from which the name Ubuntu itself was derived. Juju itself, however, is not actually magic, […]

From the ‘Did Sun Flush $1B Down the Toilet?’ files:   Monty Widenius is well known in the open source community for creating the MySQL database. It started out as a community project, then went commercial with MySQL AB (and support) got acquired by Sun for $1 Billion in 2008, then acquired by Oracle as […]

A new study from the Ponemon Institute, sponsored by authentication vendor NokNok Labs, sheds some light on the current state of password use — and as it turns out, misuse. The study surveyed 1,900 people in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Curse You, Passwords Nearly half of the study’s respondents were unable to […]

To support SDN, Intel announced a pair of reference architectures. One is for switches, the other for servers. The Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design was under development at Intel under the codename Seacliff Trail. Running on top of the switch will be Intel’s Open Network Platform SDN software, built from Intel’s Wind River Linux […]