Sean Michael Kerner

Venafi  announced on June 30 that it has raised $39 million to help fuel its growth in the security certificate management space. The new Series F funding, led by QuestMark Partners with the participation of Intel Capital and Silver Lake Waterman, brings the company’s total financing to $101 million. “To be able to get to […]

In a video interview, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst details what the motivation for the book is about, and why there won’t be a new theory of management anytime soon. “The book describes how Red Hat does it (management) holistically in company that is in 60 countries with almost 8,000 employees,” Whitehurst said. “I wouldn’t […]

The first OpenDaylight Hydrogen release debuted in February 2014 and was followed by the Helium release in September.  The OpenDayLight Project announced its Lithium release on June 29, marking the third major platform release for the open-source Software Defined Networking (SDN) effort since the project was first created in April 2013. Read the full story […]

In many cases today, cloud identity is handled by Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) assertions, which can enable federated identity across cloud vendors.  Chenxi Wang, vice president of Cloud Security & Strategy at CipherCloud,noted that identity management is only one piece of the puzzle for cloud security, and the new open API effort will cover […]

This year’s Red Hat Summit brought together the company’s executives, customers and partners from June 23 to 26 to discuss technology trends and product innovation. A key theme this year was Docker container technology, with Red Hat announcing its Atomic Enterprise Platform and the OpenShift Enterprise 3 platform. Atomic Enterprise brings an enterprise-grade supported host […]

Starting with the new Docker engine 1.7 release, there are now experimental features for users to test out. The first such experimental feature is the new libnetwork component that enables a pluggable system for Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Much of the work behind Docker’s SDN effort comes from technologies it gains via the acquisition of SocketPlane […]

As Dell’s rival Hewlett-Packard (HP) is nearing a split into two separate companies, Jim Ganthier, VP and GM for engineered solutions and cloud at Dell, sees an opportunity for his company from the change. In a video interview with eWEEK, Ganthier discusses the benefits of his company’s private placement and the potential opportunities as other […]

In an entertaining session at the Red Hat Summit Boston last week, Magnus Glantz, Product Responsible for Linux at IKEA, detailed the flavor of common sense it used to patch for the recent Shellshock vulnerability that impacted Linux systems. Glantz explained that IKEA has more than 3,500 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers deployed in […]

From the ‘Mozilla’s Leadership Collapse Continues’ files: Andreas Gal, the CTO of Mozilla announced today that he is leaving Mozilla. Gal was named CTO in April of 2014, after Brendan Eich left the position to become CEO of Mozilla (albeit temporarily). Mozilla’s PR cordon have not let me speak with Gal in several years, the […]

From the ‘Where are they now?’ files: Lots of chatter in my news feeds the last few days about Oracle allegedly hiring most of Nebula’s OpenStack devs. Trouble is it’s not entirely accurate. Brian Payne, one of the co-founders of the OpenStack Security Group and a former employee of the now-defunct company Nebula did not […]

The 2015 Dell Security Annual Threat Report was officially released on April 13 providing insight into the threat landscape. The Dell report also calls out the rise in point-of-sale (POS) malware over the course of 2014. Retail malware was a significant concern in 2014, with multiple high-profile breaches occurring, including ones at Staples and Home […]

The basic idea behind Ionic’s platform is to protect data with encryption that is easy to deploy and maintain. Adam Ghetti, founder and CTO of Ionic Security, explained that the ionic.com platform is a data protection platform-as-a-service offering. The company isn’t just announcing that it is existing stealth, but also that it already has a […]