Sean Michael Kerner

Last week, Rackspace announced that is was beginning to offer OpenStack as an option for it public cloud. Why has it taken so long for Rackspace to offer OpenStack in its own public cloud? It’s a question of capabilities and the maturity of the code base. The OpenStack Essex release came out earlier this month, […]

While some have speculated that SDN is a risk to Cisco and its networking business, nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is that today, Cisco executive, David Ward is the Chair of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) at the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), helping to build SDN as a whole. In an […]

“There are butts in seats and fingers on keyboards, pounding out the software for OpenFlow as well as extensions to that technology.” David Ward, CTO and chief architect of the Service Provider Division at Cisco explaining Cisco’s involvement in OpenFlow (EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet)   “I’m simply not really organized enough to be a good MIS person. And […]

From the ‘What’s In an Name’ files: Linux distro names started to get ‘weird’ when Ubuntu arrived on the scenes with Weirdly Wacky African-inspired Animal names. Other distros, notably Fedora have taken a more democratic approach where community members vote on the release name, but that could soon change. “ “This cycle, the Board is […]

For the quarter, VMware reported revenue of $1.06 Billion, which is a 25 percent year-over-year gain. Net income rose to $191 million, or $0.44 per share, which is up from $126 million, or $0.29 per share, for the first quarter of 2011. Moving forward, VMware is providing second quarter guidance for revenues to be within […]

HP now certifies Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu Linux operating systems on their ProLiant server and as such, their salesforce and resellers could potentially direct customers to specific distributions for a given use-case. Semandeni explained that the customer dynamic is what typically determines which distribution will be used. “For example, most enterprise customers always default […]

F5 reported second quarter fiscal 2012 earnings late Wednesday with revenue coming in at $339.6 million, for a 22.4 percent year-over-year gain. Net income was reported at $68.6 million or $0.86 per share, up from $55.6 million or $0.68 per share for the second quarter of 2011. Moving forward, F5 provided revenue guidance for the […]

Java exploits have been generally very reliable for attackers due to a low patch rate, Jason Jones, advanced security intelligence engineer at HP DVLabs told InternetNews.com. For example, one recent exploit took advantage of a Java vulnerability for which a patch was available at the end of 2011 — yet the Blackhole exploit toolkit included […]

NetScaler 10 is a major software release, and is supported across Citrix’s entire line of NetScaler appliances, including both the physical NetScaler MPX hardware appliances and the software-based NetScaler VPX virtual appliances. A key part of the new release is the TriScale functionality that enables multiple NetScaler appliances to be clustered together. “Citrix TriScale is […]

Intel reported its first quarter fiscal 2012 earning late Monday. Revenue was reported at $12.9 billion with Net Income coming in at $2.7 billion. Intel’s PC Client Group delivered the lion’s share of revenue at $8.5 billion with the Data Center Group coming in at $2.5 billion. A key target consumer platform for Ivy Bridge […]

IBM reported first quarter fiscal 2012 earnings late Tuesday, stating revenue of $24.7 billion, a 1 percent year-over-year gain. Net income was $3.1 billion, up 9 percent from the first quarter of 2011. Looking ahead, IBM is more optimistic now about its 2012 prospects than it was at the beginning of the year, thanks largely […]

GAiA provides a Web user interface for provisioning and management. Additionally, the GAiA system delivers automatic software updates and role based software administration. Existing users of Check Point’s IPSO and SPLAT powered appliances can migrate to GAiA using a documented process with scripts that can help maintain current rules and policies. Historically, Check Point has […]