Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘I wasn’t confused before, but I am now files: OpenStack Release Manager Thierry Carrez and the OpenStack Technical Committee have proposed a major overhaul to the project structure at OpenStack. Apparently there has been some confusion about the integrated release cycle, how things are included and what that means for the complexity of […]

While Rackspace is now officially joining the OpenPOWER Foundation, it’s not because the company has a great deal of familiarity running Power servers in production. “Rackspace is not using POWER-based systems in its datacenters or cloud today,” Aaron Sullivan, Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer at Rackspace, told ServerWatch. “Rackspace has been investigating POWER in its […]

Sucuri first warned of vulnerabilities in the RevSlider plug-in in September, and an updated version of the plug-in has been available for months. It wasn’t until Dec. 14 that a large-scale attack that abuses the RevSlider vulnerabilities emerged. The attack leverages the RevSlider vulnerabilities to connect with the SoakSoak.ru domain to load a JavaScript malware. […]

On January 1, 2015, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) version 3.0 formally comes in effect, ushering in a new era of compliance specifications to secure payments. The PCI-DSS 3.0 specification was formally approved (http://www.eweek.com/security/pci-dss-3.0-security-now-officially-a-standard.html) a year ago in December of 2013, giving retailers and those that handle payments a year to get […]

Python 3 was first released six years ago and, at the time, the plan was for Python 2.x to eventually disappear. That hasn’t happened. Instead, Python 2.x is still widely used (many parts of the open-source OpenStack cloud platform rely on it, for example), and on Dec. 10 Python 2.7.9 was released, providing all manner […]

Riverbed announced on December 15 that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be taken private and acquired by Thoma Bravo and Teachers’ Private Capital. The deal is valued at approximately $3.6 billion and will pay Riverbed shareholders $21.00 per share in cash. The deal is expected to close in the first half of […]

Docker has emerged over the course of 2014 to become a popular technology for application virtualization and now has the support of Amazon, IBM, VMware, Microsoft and Red Hat, among others. One of the issues fixed in Docker 1.3.3 is identified as CVE-2014-9357 and is a privilege-escalation flaw that was introduced in the Docker 1.3.2 […]

While much of Cisco’s history has been dominated by networking hardware, Cisco has evolved over the years to be much more than just a supplier of plumbing for networking engineers. That’s a fact that was on display this week as the company announced new analytics services that help to enable the emerging economy for the […]

Helping lead the development of CoreOS is CTO Brandon Philips. In a video interview with ServerWatch, Philips explains how the key components of Linux ServerCoreOS, including Fleet and etcd, come together and how the Linux distribution works. Prior to helping found CoreOS, Philips had been at Rackspace, where he came to a number of realizations […]

According to the 2014 Trustwave State of Risk report, 63 percent of organizations today do not have a fully mature method to control and track sensitive data. “That means many businesses do not know where their valuable data lives, who has access to it and where it moves,” Phil Smith, senior vice president of Government […]

The RHEL 7.1 beta provides new security and performance capabilities that have been developed in the open-source community The RHEL 7.1 beta is the first incremental milestone update for Red Hat’s flagship Linux platform since RHEL 7 became generally available in June. Among the improvements that the RHEL 7.1 beta includes is a new security […]

HashiCorp is known in the application development community for its open source tools, including Vagrant, Packer, Serf, Consul and Terraform. “What we’ve done with the open source goodness is to break down application delivery into distinct components that are very targeted,” Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder and CEO of HashiCorp, told Enterprise Apps Today. Vagrant allows developers […]