Sean Michael Kerner

Dana Loof, executive VP at Pano Logic, explained to InternetNews that Pano’s system for the cloud is focused on Web-only desktop computing. In the model, there is one device that gets a server-delivered image of Google Chrome. Loof added that the approach eliminates the need for desktop bloat and reduces server infrastructure costs. Having a […]

Red Hat is now officially a storage vendor. The open source operating system vendor released it first commercially supported storage system, dubbed Red Hat Storage 2.0, this week at the company’s annual user conference event. Red Hat Storage 2.0 first appeared as a beta in April of this year. The solution is built of top […]

SAP is a software company few folks would associate with open source. SAP Sybase CTO Ifran Khan would like to change that perception, however.  Khan took the stage at the Red Hat Summit in Boston this week, detailing SAP’s take on Linux, open source and Big Data. Khan began his keynote with a staggering statistic. […]

For the past six years, the Eclipse Foundation has delivered an annual release train of open source development projects that has kept growing. In 2012, the Eclipse Release train (codenamed Juno) is shipping a record 72 projects encompassing 55 million lines of code. In contrast, the first Eclipse release train (codenamed Callisto) back in 2006 […]

From the ‘Conference Panel Shockers’ files: BOSTON. Vendors and analysts alike tell me people aren’t worried about Linux litigation and that Solaris isn’t a concern for Linux vendors. As it turns out, that’s not entirely accurate. I was on a panel today at the Red Hat Summitt in Boston and we got a question about […]

After being available for free for its entire lifespan thus far, Red Hat is now revealing its plans for making money from the platform.Issac Roth, PaaS Master at Red Hat, told InternetNews that people have been asking about the pricing for months. “We’re going to keep the same level of resources that we give to […]

The first Firefox for Android release debuted in 2011 and didn’t fully embrace mobile, offering up a sluggish and unsatisfactory performance. Mozilla has been on a mission since October of 2011 to change that, with a rethought and rebuilt Firefox for Android browser, which is officially being released today. Johnathan Nightingale, Director of Firefox at […]

Over the course of the last two years, Cisco CEO John Chambers has been on a mission to streamline his company. It’s a mission that involves minimizing organizational layers in an effort to accelerate innovation. This week, Chambers made his latest move, this time an executive shuffling. Out after 13 years, is Chief Strategy Officer […]

From the ‘that didn’t take long’ files: BOSTON. It wasn’t all that long ago that Red Hat officially announced that they were joining the OpenStack open source cloud project. Today at the Red Hat Summit, Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens revealed that Red Hat already has active customer trials of OpenStack. Steven’s sees OpenStack as […]

From the ‘open source as a tool of industry’ files: BOSTON. There are keynotes that are little more than product pitches, then there are conference keynotes that educate and inspire. Red Hat CEO, Jim Whitehurst delivered the latter during his keynote kickoff for the Red Hat Summit here today. Whitehurst gave the capacity crowd of […]

From the ‘Bloatware Sucks!’ files: BOSTON. Mark Little, Red Hat’s JBoss CTO delivered a keynote at the JBoss summit this evening that really struck a chord. Little talked about all the problems that Java has yet to solve, better NoSQL work (Red Hat has an upcoming graph based NoSQL database in that area..), better density […]

Aaron Portnoy, a well-known and respected figure who until recently was the manager of the Security Research Team at HP TippingPoint and the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), is an example in point: Portnoy is now a co-founder and VP of Research at a new security startup called Exodus Intelligence. In a conversation with eSecurity Planet, […]