Sean Michael Kerner

At the OpenStack Summit this week, developers from HP and Rackspace took to the stage to describe a new approach for delivering databases as a service, in the cloud. Officially called Project RedDwarf, the effort aims to enable cloud scale and provisioning capabilities for databases. RedDwarf is being built on top of the OpenStack Nova […]

The data storage explosion in enterprises large and small is a persistent challenge that needs to be solved. It’s a challenge that storage vendor Gridstore is solving with a “grow as needed,” Software Defined Storage approach. It’s a business that is also growing and is now going to be fueled by an additional $12.5 million […]

From the ‘Yeaah, I’m a LibreOffice User – ‘ files: There was a time when OpenOffice was where I spent a good chunk of my work day. Those days are now in the past, as I’ve moved on and so has every single major Linux distribution. We’ve all moved to a faster more agile open […]

From the ‘Cloud Punditry’ files: SAN DIEGO. Thanks to the OpenStack Foundation, I got to sit on a panel event this week alongside some industry analysts (Gary Chen/IDC, Steve O’Grady/Red Monk and Krishnan Subramanian. Yeah, that’s right I was the only press guy on a panel of analysts and no I wasn’t the moderator. There […]

SAN DIEGO.Mark Shuttleworth is a man with vision. He had the vision to create the Ubuntu Linux project and he had the vision to be the first commercial Linux distro to embrace OpenStack fully. Overall, Shuttleworth is very enthusiastic about OpenStack’s development community. “This is the most awesome community in action in open source today,” […]

SAN DIEGO. The last two years have been very eventful for Jonathan Bryce. Bryce is the Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation, overseeing a project that has become highly influential since he helped create it two years ago. At the OpenStack Summit, Bryce took the keynote stage to detail the progress and the path forward […]

While hardware is at the core of what Cisco does, the company is no stranger to software either. In many cases, software from Cisco is all about leveraging and enabling its networking and server gear, but that’s not the whole story when it comes to Cisco’s open source OpenStack release. Cisco released the first version […]

Midokura’s MidoNet is now integrated with the OpenStack Quantum networking project and has support for OpenStack Nova network drivers as well. Ben Cherian, Chief Strategy Officer at Midokura told EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet that cloud computing and virtualization are requiring enterprises to think more like service providers. He added that the cloud changes the control points in a […]

Spine is an open source technology for provisioning and scaling that was originally built by Ticketmaster and then released as open source. Steve Curry, CEO of Metacloud, was formerly a Senior VP at Ticketmaster before leaving along with some members of his cloud engineering team to create the OpenStack-based startup. Instead of being yet another […]

Brocade is aiming to bolster its cloud capabilities by way of a new partnership with Piston Cloud computing. The partnership will see the Brocade VCS Fabric melded to a Piston Cloud designed OpenStack platform. Piston Cloud is a commercial vendor building its own OpenStack distribution. With OpenStack and its included Quantum network virtualization components the […]

“As many other countries show through their actions, the Committee believes the telecommunications sector plays a critical role in the safety and security of our nation, and is thus a target of foreign intelligence services.” House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in its report on Huawei, banning the Chinese networking vendor from the U.S. Government […]

Next week is the OpenStack Summit and I couldn’t be more excited. This isn’t just a typical IT conference where vendors pitch their wares (though that will be there too). This is a working conference where the future of OpenStack will be mapped out. This is also the first big board meeting since the official […]