Sean Michael Kerner

On the cloud front, Ubuntu 12.04 includes the OpenStack Essex release. The OpenStack support is a shift from what Ubuntu 10.04 offered with cloud support via the Eucalyptus project. Ubuntu shifted away from Eucalyptus as its primary cloud technology in the 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” release. The difference with 12.04 is that this is an LTS […]

Open source business intelligence vendor Pentaho is updating its namesake software platform to version 4.5, with the specific aim of enabling user-driven data visualization. Ian Fyfe, chief technology evangelist and vice president of product marketing at Pentaho, told InternetNews.com that in Pentaho 4.5 all of the different visualization types have been made interactive. As such, […]

The Snort open source IPS platform debuted back in 1998 and has since become a popular system to write security signatures that protect enterprise IT assets. It’s now a system that IBM is supporting in limited fashion for its lineup of IPS devices. IBM’s support for Snort signatures is part of a new security update […]

Juniper Networks reported first quarter fiscal 2012 earnings late Tuesday that exceeded expectations. First quarter revenue was reported at $1.03 Billion, which is a 6 percent year-over-year decline. Juniper had forecast revenues to come in between $960 million and $990 million. Net Income was reported at $1.5 million or $0.03 per share. Moving forward, Juniper […]

During the Apple’s earnings call this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked if he thought the tablet and traditional notebook computing markets would converge. Intel currently is ramping up its Ultrabook concept, which includes hybrid tablet and notebook designs. “You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going […]

From the ‘Little Things that Matter’ files: The new Firefox 12 release is generating headlines for being the first have silent updates. As a Linux user though, that doesn’t interest me much, since Yum-Update and Apt-get are my installation/update methods of choice. What does interest me personally about Firefox 12 is View Source. More specifically, […]

Splunk debuted last week to a stellar IPO as the company cashed in on growing market demand and interest in leveraging Big Data. Now a venture capitalist with Rembrandt Venture Partners, Baum is looking at what’s next in Big Data and he’s got a few ideas to help find the next big thing. “Our big […]

Beginning with the Firefox 12 release this week, Mozilla is baking in a silent updating mechanism – for Windows users only. There is no change on Mac and Linux users. Instead of a user manually needing to click and update to the latest Firefox release, with Firefox 12 and beyond, updates can be set to […]

Dell acquired Force 10 in July of 2011 and it has since come to form the core of Dell’s overall networking efforts. With the Dell Virtual Network Architecture (VNA) the goal is to enable networks for the new era of cloud scalability and software defined networking (SDN) network programmability. “Dell Virtual Network Architecture is an […]

Virtual servers need virtual networking technologies that can deliver cloud scale. That’s the driving factor behind the release of a new virtual networking technology called vPlane from networking vendor Vyatta. With vPlane, networking between virtual machines can be accelerated by optimizing the data path. “When you had physical networking devices cabled to a physical service […]

From the ‘OpenStack Reality Check’ files: Despite claims from VMware that OpenStack is currently immature, vendors including Canonical (lead sponsor of Ubuntu Linux) are seeing significant demand. Canonical is particularly well positioned for OpenStack deployments since they’ve been the base/reference implementation for the open source cloud platform for at least a year at this point. […]

From the ‘Responsible Disclosure’ files: Users of the open source WordPress blogging system (and there are millions of us), should have seen an alert in their dashboard to update in recent days. WordPress 3.3.2 came out late Friday and is primarily a security update for media, upload, cross site scripting and privilege escalation bugs. There […]