Sean Michael Kerner

This week, Citrix launched its effort to bring the open source cloud technology to the home of Zeus with Project Olympus. Project Olympus is the Citrix distribution of the OpenStack platform. OpenStack began as a joint effort of Rackspace and NASA in July of 2010. The effort has since expanded to over 60 industry partners […]

The open source WordPress blogging application is being updated to version 3.1.3 this week adding multiple security fixes and improvements. Perhaps the biggest security improvement is the inclusion of clickjacking protection support in WordPress. Clickjacking was first discussed as an attack vector back in 2008 by Whitehat Security researcher Jeremiah Grossman. In a clickjack attack, […]

Maintaining open source license compliance in an enterprise development and production environment can sometimes be a complex task. Applications can pull from multiple open source projects, each with their own licensing requirements and obligations. That’s where the Open Logic Exchange (OLEX) comes into play with a hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution to the challenge of open […]

“Spending time in courtrooms is generally not our thing.” Amanda Pires, Senior director, PayPal global communications commenting on why her company is suing Google over mobile payments. (Paypal) “Whatever you can do in IPv4, you should be able to do with IPv6.” Faraz Aladin, Director, Marketing Cloud Switching and Services at Cisco discussing the over […]

The winds of change are blowing at HP. HP’s top networking executive, Marius Haas, is leaving HP at the end of the month. Haas served as the Senior Vice President and Worldwide General Manager of the HP Networking Division. “Marius Haas has decided to leave HP to pursue other interests,” HP noted in a statement […]

From the ‘You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks‘ files: With all the excitementaround Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 last week, it’s important to remember that most RHEL users are still likely on RHEL 5. RHEL 5 debuted in March of 2007 and has been updated with 6 incremental updates over the last four […]

The open source Ruby on Rails community is gearing up for their next major release. This week Rails 3.1 was released as a release candidate, debuting new features for streaming, JavaScript integration and security. Rails 3.1 is the first major update to Rails since the 3.0 release in summer of 2010. “There is some very […]

Microsoft moved this week to put the last of its European anti-trust contretemps behind it — and tried to save a boatload of money at the same time — when it appealed the last fine, one for approximately $1.35 billion, levied against it late last decade by the European Commission. According to published reports, Microsoft’s […]

While Cisco has been providing support for IPv6 for nearly 12 years on its network equipment, IPv6 isn’t just about basic packet forwarding. Until this week, using the Network Time Protocol on IPv6 with Cisco networking equipment was not easily done, but that has changed with a new release of Cisco’s IOS network operating system. […]

According to IDC’s first quarter 2011 Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, global server revenues hit $11.9 billion for a 12.1 percent year-over-year increase. Revenues grew on the strength of increased server unit shipments of 1.9 million units. IDC noted that the 1Q11 server shipments numbers were the second highest quarterly total ever reported in the first […]

From the ‘39 Kernels Later‘ files: It seems very likely that the recent 2.6.39 Linux kernel was the last major release of the 2.6.x series. Linus Torvalds made a remark on the Linux Kernel Mailing list at the beginning of the week that the voices were telling him that the numbers were getting too big… […]