Sean Michael Kerner

MicroStrategy last week launched its Cloud Express service offering, which aims to deliver a self-service approach to business analytics. The new Express offering builds on the MicroStrategy Platform cloud offering that debuted in 2011. “We have built on top of the platform a very streamlined application that enables any organization to quickly and easily sign […]

From the open source branding files: One of the most hotly debated topics in years is now bubbling up in the Mozilla community as people debate the position of Web vs. Firefox. There was a time when Firefox was just a browser, the view by which freedom loving people could see and interact with the […]

UCS Central enables enterprises and data centers to manage up to 10,000 physical servers at a time, providing new levels of operational efficiency and scalability. In addition to UCS Central, Cisco is updating its UCS Manager offering as well as the Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud solution. “UCS Central is a manager of many UCS […]

Relying on traditional spinning disk-based database platforms isn’t always what is required for modern application deployment. It’s a challenge that VMware is aiming to solve with its new Gemfire 7.0 release. “With Gemfire, we are focused on enabling the next generation of applications that require an in-memory approach for the data tier, David McJannet, VMware’s […]

“Your data may sleep in a database, but it lives in memory.” David McJannet, VMware’s director of Cloud and Application Service talking about the value of in-memory data grid tech (Database Journal)   I’m at a loss that a company such as Apple would do this,”. “That is a plain breach of the order.” Judge […]

Modern applications connect to multiple servers and services and proper network security policies need to be in place. Avishai Wool, CTO of AlgoSec explained to EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet that the people that own the business applications use different terminology than typical network security people to define their needs. For example, a business application owner might say that […]

From the ‘What’s in a number?’ files: Digium this week released Asterisk 11, (though I bet more than a few people missed it since Digium didn’t do a particularly good job in promoting the release IMHO, great tech terrible marketing/PR). This is the first major Long Term Support release (LTS) since the 1.8 release that […]

Zorawar ‘Biri’ Singh, SVP Converged Cloud and HP Cloud Services, has some big responsibilities. Singh is responsible for HP’s cloud efforts, which increasingly involve the open source OpenStack platform. In an exclusive interview with InternetNews Singh detailed his views on the cloud and how HP can leverage the open approach and still provide competitive differentiation. The […]

From the ‘Scary Stuff’ files: In October of 1994, on All Hallow’s Eve, Marc Ewing released the first publicly available distribution of Red Hat Linux. It’s a release that has become known as the Halloween release. Back in 1994, Linux was a scary beast. It was a nascent effort that was just getting going, full […]

Riverbed Technology today announced its intention to acquire Application Performance Management (APM) vendor OPNET. The deal is valued at $1 billion and is expected to close by the end of this calendar year. Riverbed will be paying $43 per OPNET share in a cash and stock deal. The plan is to combine the OPNET technology […]

Simon Anderson, CEO of Dreamhost, noted that his company has been using Linux since the company was founded in 1997. Dreamhost originally used the Debian Linux distribution but more recently has started to shift toward Ubuntu Linux. While Dreamhost uses Ubuntu, they currently don’t have a commercial agreement with Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor of […]

The name Alan Clark is a familiar one to those who follow open source governance. Clark sits on the Board of Directors at the Linux Foundation. He was also the former Chairman of the Board of the openSUSE Foundation, and Clark was recently selected to be the first Chairman of the newly formed OpenStack Foundation […]