Sean Michael Kerner

The most popular deployment type for OpenStack is as an on-premises private cloud, according the recent OpenStack user survey, which is based on 669 responses from cloud operators and users. The OpenStack platform provides a framework that enables multiple underlying technology options for compute, storage and networking capabilities. The study also found that the Kernel-based […]

For the quarter, Palo Alto reported revenue of $192.3 million for a 50 percent year-over-year gain. The company however still isn’t making a profit and reported a GAAP net loss in the quarter of $30.1 million which is an increase over the $7.9 million net loss reported for the first quarter of fiscal 2014. Looking […]

For the fourth quarter, Brocade reported revenue of $564 million for a one percent year-over-year gain. For the full year, revenue was reported at $2.21 billion for a one percent year-over-year decline. Brocade CTO Dan Fairfax said during his company’s earnings call with analysts, that the revenue decline was due to the divestiture and repositioning […]

On Nov. 24, the Docker open-source project released version 1.3.2, fixing a pair of critical security vulnerabilities. One of the issues, identified as CVE-2014-6407, is a host privilege escalation flaw. “The Docker engine, up to and including version 1.3.1, was vulnerable to extracting files to arbitrary paths on the host during ‘docker pull’ and ‘docker […]

Over the past few weeks Google has released multiple security tools and open source efforts to help end-users and organizations defend themselves from modern threats. One of the most recent tools released by Google is called Santa (yeah, that Santa), which is a Mac OS X security tool. “Santa is named because it keeps track […]

In the aftermath of Heartbleed, a new effort emerged called the Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) to help fund developers wanting to improve security across critical open-source infrastructure technologies. In a video interview with eWEEK, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, explains how CII works and what can be done to improve open-source security. […]

In a video interview with Leslie Hawthorne, community manager at Elasticsearch, Hawthorne explains how the ELK stack came to be and the role the open-source community has played in its development and popularity. Hawthorne is no stranger to the open-source community. Between 2007 and 2010, Hawthorne was an open-source program manager at Google, where she […]

One such large market transition in the networking space has been the move to Software Defined Networking (SDN), a market that some had said would negatively impact Cisco. With SDN and with NFV (Network Function Virtualization), the general premise is that networking functions are abstracted from the underlying hardware. The risk is that hardware then […]

For 2013, Mozilla reported revenue of $314.10 million, up from $311.0 million reported in 2012. Unlike in the past, the 2013 revenue figure shows a relatively flat growth rate. Back in 2005, Mozilla’s reported revenue was $52.9 million, but grew by 26 percent in 2006 to $66.8 million. Mozilla’s revenue mix includes multiple components, with […]

Among the security updates in the 4.0.1 release are fixes for three cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. An XSS vulnerability can potentially enable an attacker to inject malicious code in a trusted site. Passwords are always a target for attackers, and the WordPress 4.0.1 update includes a number of updates related to password security. WordPress has […]

On Nov. 18, Home Depot reported its third-quarter fiscal 2014 earnings, which included its breach-related costs. The pretax net expenses related to the data breach were reported at $28 million. During Home Depot’s earnings call with financial analysts, the company’s CEO was asked about the impact of the breach. “It’s very difficult for us to […]

On Nov. 18, Home Depot reported its third-quarter fiscal 2014 earnings, which included its breach-related costs. The pretax net expenses related to the data breach were reported at $28 million. During Home Depot’s earnings call with financial analysts, the company’s CEO was asked about the impact of the breach. “It’s very difficult for us to […]