Sean Michael Kerner

In a brute force attack, the attacker randomly tries username/password combinations until one works. In the case of the ongoing attack against WordPress sites, the attackers are simply going after sites with the username “admin” and attempting to brute force the password. There are a a number of things users can do to help mitigate […]

One of the easiest ways to build a software appliance is the SUSE Studio Linux technology. SUSE is now updating the software appliance building technology with its 1.3 release. SUSE Studio was first launched in 2009 as a free online service. The effort was expanded in 2010 with first release of a commercial on-premise SUSE […]

The OpenDaylight project is a multi-stakeholder effort being run under the auspices of the Linux Foundation. In addition to Cisco, other vendors participating in the effort include Arista Networks, Big Switch Networks, Brocade, Citrix, Dell, Ericsson, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, NEC, Nuage Networks, PLUMgrid, Red Hat, and VMware. At the core of […]

PORTLAND. Security is top of mind when it comes to the cloud, that’s no surprise to anyone. At the OpenStack Summit in Portland today, Rackspace developer Jarret Raim presented the CloudKeep project for OpenStack The basic idea is to create a secure service for sharing secrets (the ‘keys’ to security). CloudKeep has four pieces: Babrican […]

From the ‘Red Hat Linux Rulez’ files: The open source OpenStack Grizzly cloud platform release debuted the first week of April benefiting from over 480 contributors making over 7,600 updates. While the base of contribution is broad, one vendor stands at the top of the list, in terms of number of code commits made. While […]

Siva Sivakumar, director of UCS Solutions at Cisco, told ServerWatch that Cisco is now doubling down on Microsoft technologies. “The early ramp-up of UCS was primarily centered around work we had done with VMware,” Sivakumar said. “With Server 2012, obviously Microsoft has put out a platform that is a lot more data-center ready, and we […]

The ClearPass solution was first introduced in February of 2012. ClearPass is a Linux-based server appliance that provides FreeRADIUS-based access control. ClearPass 6.2 combines Network Access Control (NAC) for employees with NAC for guests. NAC technology provides device health and posture checks to ensure that a device is secure and able to join the network […]

Brocade introduced its HyperEdge network architecture in 2012 and is now expanding on the effort. HyperEdge leverages Brocade’s hardware and software to enable a more centralized point of control for the network. Brocade is expanding HyperEdge with a trio of new WLAN access points. The Brocade Mobility 1220 and 1240 are new 802.11n access points […]

At the top end of the Intel Xeon portfolio is the Xeon E7 family, codenamed Ivy Bridge-EX, which will hit the market in the fourth quarter of this year. “You used to need a mini-computer to be able to put 12 Terabytes of memory into a system and now we can do it with a […]

Piston is now updating its OpenStack solution in a 2.0 release that aims improve and ease the management of cloud deployments. “We are still the better, faster, easier way to get up and running with OpenStack,” Piston Founder, Joshua McKenty told Datamation. McKenty’s vision for an enterprise OpenStack company has been greeted by an influx […]

From the ‘open source coding’ files: When I first started aggressively using open source code , freshmeat and sourceforge.net were typically the first places I’d go to look. In 2006, Google shook up the open source code repository market with Google Code and I started to find great stuff there. Today, the VAST majority of […]

The Avaya Collaboration Pod is a combination of Avaya software and hardware, together with technology from VMware and EMC. The Collaboration Pod is an extension of Avaya’s virtualization strategy and the Aura Virtualized Edition (VE) that was first announced in December of 2012. Aura VE enables enterprises to consolidate and condense multiple servers into a […]