Sean Michael Kerner

This week, OpenStack startup Piston Computing announced it has raised $8 million in a Series B financing round. Piston had previously raised $4.5 million during its A round in July of 2011. The new money is all about giving Piston Cloud the ability to grow and capitalize on the opportunity and interest in OpenStack. “We […]

In a move that had been speculated on for weeks, Dell today announced yesterday that the company is going private. Michael Dell himself is taking the lead buying back the company from public shareholders. Dell is joined by private equity firm Silver Lake and is also receiving a $2 billion loan from Microsoft to help […]

From the ‘JavaScript is Fun’ files: Mozilla is now out with Firefox 18.0.2, the second incremental update for Firefox 18 in the last two weeks. Firefox 18 was first released at the beginning of January and was followed a few weeks later with the 18.0.1update fixing 7 bugs. Apparently those 7 fixes were not enough. […]

Late Friday Twitter revealed that it had stopped a sophisticated attack against its users — but not before approximately 250,000 user accounts were compromised. Potentially compromised Twitter users received emails late Friday advising them that, as a precautionary security measure, Twitter had reset their user passwords. “We recently detected an attack on our systems in […]

Cisco is announcing the new Nexus 6000 switch family, which will now offer the highest 10 GbE and 40 GbE port density in the Cisco switching portfolio. Now we are upgrading our data center switching fabric capability end to end into the era of 40 gig environments,” David Yen, Senior Vice President and General Manager, […]

Oracle has announced its first major acquisition of 2013, Acme Packet Acme Packet’s core product is Session Border Controller (SBC) technology that is critical to the operation of unified communications and voice networks. Oracle will pay $29.25 per Acme Packet (APKT) share, which is a 22 percent premium over the $23.93 the stock closed at […]

How does Cisco provision and provide IT to its own staff? That’s where the Cisco IT Elastic Infrastructure (CITEIS) effort comes into play. Michael Myers, Director Technical Services for Cisco Global Infrastructure Services, told Enterprise Networking Planet that with CITEIS, Cisco has been able to dramatically reduce the provisioning time for application infrastructure. The CITEIS […]

Dell announced a new workload solution for SAP HANA last week. Ben Tao, director for Converged Infrastructure at Dell, told Enterprise Apps Today that the new offering is not just another also-ran in the market for SAP HANA solutions. “The fact that we have an SAP HANA-certified solution is not huge news, as other IT […]

Sometimes its better to rush something out early than to wait. That’s what happened late Friday as Oracle released Java 7 Update 13 providing one of the biggest patch updates ever for Java. The February 2013 Critical Patch Update for Java SE was originally scheduled for February 19th, but given that at least one of […]

Networking vendor F5 updated it hardware portfolio of Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) last week.  In addition to the new hardware, F5 is debuting its BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager solution. The new Firewall is an evolution of technology that F5 first started talking about a year ago. Brian Lazear, Sr. Director of Product Management for Security […]

PagerDuty takes the idea of the pager alerting technology to a new level, integrating with enterprise IT monitoring tools to deliver a consolidated phone and SMS alerting system. It’s a system that is winning customers and now investor funding as well. PagerDuty announced last week that it has raised $10.7 million in new funding. The […]

The PCI Security Counsel issued new guidance this week to help merchants secure their ecommerce infrastructures. The new guidance document comes at a particularly interesting time for the PCI Council. 2013 is a release year for PCI standards. New items will be discussed and presented at community meetings throughout 2013 prior to the release of […]