Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Linux Desktop Miracle’ files: Fedora 17 is a Beefy Miracle – full of server focused enhancements, like a complete OpenStack. It’s also one fine desktop Linux release. Headlining the release is GNOME 3.4, which could well be the first ‘usable’ GNOME 3.x/Shell desktop . The desktop isn’t just about GNOME though, the Beefy […]

OpenStack now has the support of IBM, Cisco, Dell, HP and AT&T, among other leading vendors. With all that vendor support, there was a need for better configuration in a manner consistent with the way many enterprises today are already configuring their servers. That’s where a new set of open source modules for the Puppet […]

For the last several years, Red Hat’s JBoss division has been building the open source Infinispan in-memory database for Java. Now at long last Red Hat is debuting a beta of the commercially supported version of Infinispan, called JBoss Data Grid 6.   Jason Andersen, Director Middleware Product Line Management at Red Hat explained […]

Today, if you buy a networking switch from a large vendor, it’s not easy to modify the software running on it. What Software Defined Networking (SDN) enables switch owners to do is extend the functionality of the network. SDN also provides open APIs that enables orchestration of applications on the network. OpenFlow got its start […]

Until 2011, OpenFlow and SDN in general was still a relatively loosely organized effort in the market, but that changed with the formation of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). In 2011,the ONF took over the standardization effort for OpenFlow from Stanford University where it originally began. “Over the last year, we formed our structure and […]

Apple Mac OS X users have found themselves under attack in recent week from the Flashback malware outbreak. The Flashback malware was successful because it was able to exploit a vulnerability in Java that Oracle had already publicly patched. Apple has long trailed Oracle (and previously Sun) in providing OS X users with updates to […]

OpenStack is currently in the process of migrating from a loosely governed project to full open source foundation governance model. AT&T, Canonical, HP, IBM, Nebula, Rackspace, Red Hat and SUSE will be Platinum members of the new foundation. Cisco, ClearPath, Cloudscaling, Dell, DreamHost, ITRI, Mirantis, Morphlabs, NetApp, Piston Cloud Computing and Yahoo are joining the […]

Cisco is now refreshing its Linux powered portfolio of network devices with new switches and wireless access points (APs). On the switch side is the new 500 series switching platform that will serve customers that don’t need an IOS powered Catalyst switch. The 500 series switches are a step up from the Cisco 300 series […]

From the ‘Linux Vendors Choose Cloud Victor’ files: Over the last two weeks there has been a whole lot of news about ‘open’ clouds. From my perspective though there is now one clear winner – OpenStack. As opposed to say Eucalyptus or CloudStack, OpenStack has one key item that those other two ‘open’ cloud efforts […]

Networking vendor is Network Instruments (NI),  is being acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Full financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. “We have been focused in the last 18-24 months to find best-in-class companies in the network management space,” Robert Sayle, principal, Thoma Bravo told InternetNews.com. “We identified Network Instruments […]

A year ago, VMware officially launched its open source CloudFoundry Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) project. Today VMware officially announced how they are opening up the platform even further in an effort to dominate the open source PaaS landscape. “We see CloudFoundry as being the Linux of the cloud,” VMware CTO Steve Herrod said during a press conference […]

The IBM PureSystems architecture integrates server, storage and networking components to enable application deployment. The PureSystems approach leverages virtualization and then a technology for deploying applications that IBM is referring to as software ‘Patterns’ to deploy specific classes of enterprise applications. IBM is initially providing their PureSystems in two primary bundles, one for infrastructure called […]