Sean Michael Kerner

Commercial PHP vendor Zend today took the wraps off a trio of new initiatives designed to enable developers for the new world of mobile and cloud developmen The new Zend Studio 10 IDE provides new visual development options for mobile developers while the update Zend Server 6 and Zend Gateway products provide enhanced cloud capabilities. […]

At the core of Cisco’s OpenStack effort is the company’s own OpenStack Edition. The Cisco OpenStack Edition includes the core open source OpenStack projects, supplemented by additional open source monitoring and availability technologies. Cisco Cloud CTO Lew Tucker noted that the Cisco OpenStack Edition is currently being made freely available. He added that Cisco’s intent […]

The new Social API is an effort that will embed social networking site activity and collaboration directly into Firefox. For years, there have been multiple types of browser add-ons that try to enable social networking. The new Social API aims to go a step further with a uniquely integrated experience that weaves social networking fabric […]

Cisco is expanding its Tidal Enterprise Scheduler technology in a new release that takes aim at Big Data workloads. The latest version of the software, Tidal Enterprise Scheduler 6.1, includes Hadoop capabilities, a self-service portal for scheduling jobs and mobile apps for accessing the workload scheduling system. Cisco in 2009 acquired Tidal Software, a provider […]

As involvement in OpenStack has grown, so too has the number of core projects. Today the core project includes Nova, Swift, Horizon dashboard and Keystone identity, as well as Cinder block storage and Quantum networking. Cinder and Quantum were new additions that came on board with the OpenStack Folsom release that debuted at the end […]

At the OpenStack Summit this week, security professionals within the open source community discussed the current state of how security is handled in the cloud platform project. While OpenStack does have a security model in place, there is still room for improvement. OpenStack is a multi-stakeholder effort with broad participation from some of the biggest […]

Speaking at the OpenStack Summit, venture capitalist Ryan Floyd of Storm Ventures detailed to the capacity crowd why he’s putting money into funding OpenStack start-ups. Floyd noted that his firm was founded in 2000 as an early stage IT venture group. He also candidly admitted that he is very bullish on OpenStack. Storm Ventures has […]

The Ubuntu 12.10 Linux Server release is now generally available, providing administrators with an enhanced platform for cloud deployment. The 12.10 release follows the 12.04 release by six months and updates a number of key components. At the core, Ubuntu has updated its Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) to the Folsom release of OpenStack. Folsom was […]

At the core of VMware’s closed-source business is the company’s ubiquitous vSphere ESX hypervisor. Herrod noted that vSphere is used today by 400,000 companies. He estimated that there are more than 25 million virtual machines and a new VMware VM is born every 6 seconds. “Today 60 percent of all applications are now running virutalized,” […]

The second quarter 2012 Akamai State of the Internet report found that global average connection speeds grew 13 percent in the second quarter, to 3.0 Mbps. The Global average peak connection speed is growing even faster coming in at 16. Mbps for a 19 percent year over year gain. The U.S is still not the […]

During a panel event this week at the OpenStack Summit, OpenStack distribution vendors explained what it is that they do, how they differentiate and why fragmentation is not a risk. Pete Chadwick, Senior Product Manager of Cloud Infrastructure solutions at SUSE, explained that a distribution is like a museum, where a curator decides what makes […]

Zorawar ‘Biri’ Singh,SVP Converged Cloud and HP Cloud Services, delivered a keynote at the OpenStack Summit detailing what it will take to make the cloud real. “Over time there will be a common stack that emerges and that’s the opportunity for OpenStack,” Singh said. “That’s hundreds of billions of spending, not the 6 or 10 […]