Sean Michael Kerner

PORTLAND. OpenStack is being deployed and used by organizations that many Americans know as household brand names. That’s the message coming from the OpenStack Summit where a conga line of big end users explained to capacity crowds why they chose OpenStack and how it is being used. In a live demo on the keynote stage, […]

From the ‘Grizzled to Svelt’ files: PORTLAND. Vish Ishaya has been the project leader of the open source OpenStack Nova Compute project since the beginning of OpenStack. He’s now stepping aside and Red Hat developer Russell Bryant is now taking the help of the core compute project that makes OpenStack, OpenStack. At the OpenStack Summit […]

Oracle has released its April Critical Patch Update (CPU) for Java, fixing no less than 41 vulnerabilities. Of those 41 vulnerabilities, 18 of them carry the highest possible CVSS Base Score of 10.0, meaning they are highly critical issues that need to be patched rapidly. Included among the April CPU patches are four vulnerabilities that […]

After six months of customer trials and beta testing, Polycom is making CloudAXIS generally available. Since the initial CloudAXIS announcement, there haven’t been any major fixes or bug issues, Manny Kostas, group vice president of worldwide product management organization at Polycom, told Enterprise Networking Planet. “The general-availability feature set matches what we set out to […]

PORTLAND – In July 2010 at the OSCON conference here in Portland, Rackspace joined with NASA to launch the open source OpenStack project. At the time there was some skepticism that the effort would succeed. Nearly three years later, thousands of users and developers have gathered in Portland at the OpenStack summit to prove the […]

Linux vendor SUSE is working with Dell on an offering known as the Dell SUSE Cloud Solution, Powered by OpenStack. The solution leverages Dell PowerEdge servers as the underlying server architecture for a cloud deployment. Running on top of the servers is an OpenStack solution based on the SUSE Cloud as its reference platform. SUSE […]

From the ‘No Such Agency’ files: PORTLAND. The NSA (America’s super secret intelligence agency) is no stranger to open source software and apparently they aren’t strangers to OpenStack either. NSA developer Nathaniel Burton was speaking at the OpenStack summit today, though he joked that he couldn’t reveal how many servers they had running OpenStack or […]

Dell Networking this week announced its Active Fabric solution, which provides management and operational control of a converged network. Dell is also announcing a new 1U converged LAN/SAN top-of-rack switch to further enable network convergence. Arpit Joshipura, vice president of networking product marketing at Dell, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet that the rapid growth of […]

HP is doubling down on its OpenStack efforts with a new CloudSystem 7.2 private cloud release. HP’s public cloud offering is also based on OpenStack and the company is a leading contributor to OpenStack development. “One of the key tenants of CloudSystem has always been its openness. It supports Microsoft, it supports VMware, it supports […]

Red Hat OpenStack RDO is being officially launched this week by the Linux leader as a way to enable easier adoption of OpenStack. Red Hat is also in the process of building a commercially supported, subscription-based enterprise release of OpenStack that is set to officially debut by the summer. “While we work on the run-up […]

In the core Metasploit 4.6 open source framework, 138 new penetration testing modules have been included, enabling at least 80 new exploits. One of the exploits that Metasploit 4.6 includes is a webcam activation module. The basic idea behind the module is that it could enable a security researcher to gain access to webcams and […]

PORTLAND. Lots of people are here at the OpenStack Summit this week talking about OpenStack but how do you actually get code into the open source cloud? Rackspace developer Michael Still explained the process during a neat session. Still is a Core Reviewer for the OpenStack project. The first step is to get a Launchpad […]