Sean Michael Kerner

The new Juniper EX9200 is the biggest innovation in the company’s switching line since it first entered the switch market in 2008. “The EX9200 is a net new addition to the Juniper switching portfolio,” Dhritiman Dasgupta, Sr Director of Product Marketing and Strategy at Juniper told Enterprise Networking Planet. “Its high degree of programmability differentiates […]

This week, the seventh major milestone release of OpenStack is officially becoming generally available. The OpenStack Grizzly release comes after six months of active development with some 7,620 patches contributed from 517 contributors. Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation told Datamation that maturity and scalability are key themes of the Grizzly release. The […]

Mulesoft is not a new company, having started out under the name Mulesource in 2003.The company originated as a commercial effort around the open source Mule Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) created by Mulesoft founder Ross Mason. One of the innovations Mulesoft is now pushing forward is its Anypoint platform. “One of the biggest challenges that […]

While Red Hat may not have been an early adopter of the open source OpenStack cloud platform when it was first launched by Rackspace and NASA in 2010, Red Hat did publicly jump into the OpenStack community in 2012 and has since become one of its leading contributors. Mark McLoughlin, Technical Lead for Red Hat’s […]

Cisco announced this week, its intention to acquire privately held femtocell vendor Ubiquisys for $310 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of Cisco’s fiscal 2013. Once the deal closes Ubiquisys employees will become part of the Cisco Service Provider Mobility Group, reporting to Partho Mishra, vice president and […]

The core SDN solution from Nuage is its Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) technology. VSP is a software based solution that provides a number of capabilities. VSP includes a Virtualized Services Directory (VSD) which is a policy engine where IT users can specify business requirements for deploying an application. The platform also has a Virtual Services […]

From the ‘open source fork’ files: Google is moving away from WebKit. Google is now going its own way with a new rendering engine called – Blink Shocking isn’t it? The announcement just went live and I still find it somewhat unbelievable that Google is forking away from the WebKit community which enabled it to […]

From the ‘Rust is Good’ files” Mozilla is partnering with mobile phone giant on an effort that i consider to be the most important in the entire history of Mozilla. For the first time (so far as I know) Mozilla could be leaving Gecko behind and moving to a new engine “Servo is an attempt […]

Red Hat this week announced the appointment of Radhesh Balakrishnan as the new global leader for Red Hat’s virtualization infrastructure solutions. Balakrishnan will now oversee the market development for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) as well as the upcoming Red Hat OpenStack Enterprise release. Balakrishnan comes to Red Hat by way of arch-nemesis Microsoft, where […]

Japanese startup Midokura, announced this week that it has raised $17.3 million in a Series A funding round. Midokura’s backers include the public-private partnership Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ). Midokura launched in the U.S. in October of 2012 with its MidoNet SDN approach for the OpenStack cloud platform. Ben Cherian, Chief Strategy Officer at […]

The Firefox 3.1 release back in 2008, introduced a Private Mode for browsing. In private mode, user history and cookie information is not retained after the browser is closed. Since 2008, there has been a bug listed against Private mode, that the Firefox 20 release finally fixes. Prior to Firefox 20, Private Mode only worked […]

From the ‘trac this’ files: For better or for worse, I tend to see a lot of bugzilla on any given day for bug related tracking. Though, I do see a whole lot of Trac, too. Soon, I hope to see a lot more of a different project though – Apache Bloodhound. Bloodhound in many […]