Sean Michael Kerner

Alcatel-Lucent this week unveiled its SDN strategy, expanding on the company’s existing Application Fluency approach to intelligent application aware networks. Cliff Grossner, Senior Director, Networks Solutions Marketing at Alcatel-Lucent explained to EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet that to date there has been a lot of hype around SDN in general. He added that the Alcatel-Lucent SDN strategy is all […]

Linux vendor Red Hat is advancing its PaaS platform with a new on-site solution. The OpenShift Enterprise release builds on Red Hat’s open source OpenShift Origin platform and its existing OpenShift online service. Ashesh Badani, GM of the Cloud Business Unit, explained that OpenShift Enterprise is an on-premise PaaS that provides auto-scaling, self service features […]

From the ‘open source hygiene’ files: For the last several years, I have seen the same flaws again and again show up in the security vulnerability list for Google’s open source Chrome browser (and to be fair in Firefox lately too). Use-after-free errors are common and frequent in browsers. Google updated Chrome this week to […]

RHEV 3.1 is currently in beta with an official release set to debut by the end of the year. The updated open source virtualization platform is set to include new live migration features that Red Hat will use to further the challenge against VMware. The RHEV 3.1 release will be the first major update since […]

From the ‘Good Things Come to Those Who Wait’ files: Fedora 18 was originally scheduled to have its first beta release on October 2nd. Things change, bugs are found and now at long last Fedora 18 Beta is now available. There is a lot to like about Fedora 18 aka the Spherical Cow and I’ve […]

From the ‘More Monkey Business’ files: Firefox 18 is now officially in Beta and it is likely to be the fastest browser ever released by Mozilla. The reason of the speed boost is a new tech that I first wrote about back in September called IonMonkey. It’s the latest iteration of Mozilla’s JavaScript engine and […]

Red Hat’s first OpenStack preview was based on the OpenStack Essex release and is now being rebased to the Folsom release. Folsom was released by the upstream OpenStack community in September and includes new block storage and cloud networking capabilities. OpenStack is a multi-stakeholder cloud platform project with participation from many tech industry leaders, including […]

Salesforce is a company that helped to pioneer the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model and it’s a model that continues to be successful for the company. Salesforce reported third quarter fiscal 2013 revenues late Tuesday that show continued growth. For the quarter, Salesforce reported revenue of $788 million which is a 35 percent year-over-year gain. Looking forward, […]

“The majority of this impairment charge is linked to serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations that occurred prior to HP’s acquisition of Autonomy and the associated impact on the expected financial performance of the business over the long term.”  HP CEO Meg Whitman on her company’s $8.8 billion writedown on Autonomy (ServerWatch)   […]

From the ‘Open Source Acquisitions’ files: The first time I had ever spoken with Vyatta, it was about the company’s open source routing Linux distribution. That was back in 2006 and while many things have changed, some things haven’t. Vyatta Core (VC) 6.5 was released this week marking the latest iteration of the company’s open […]

Mozilla has implemented various plugin protections over the years, and with Firefox 17, the open source browser group is going a step further. There is a class of plugins known as click-to-play that only activate when a user clicks. With Firefox 17, there is now a blocklist for click-to-play that provides an additional layer of […]

For the quarter, HP reported net revenue of $30.0 billion, for a 7 percent year-over-year decline. For the full year, revenue came in at $120 billion, down by 5 percent from 2011. HP reported a net loss of $6.9 billion for the fourth quarter and a net loss of $12.7 billion for the full year. […]