Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘cloud storage’ files: The first time I ever heard of the Manila project was at the recent OpenStack Atlanta summit. I had planned to sit in on the Manila session, but the room was overflowing and I wasn’t allowed in, which was very disappointing. The OpenStack Foundation however does a fantastic job of […]

From the ‘All Good Things’ files: I first wrote about PHP 5.3 back in 2009 when it first debuted. Five years later PHP 5.3 is now at its End of Life, dead and abandoned as newer versions have replaced it. php.net wrote: The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.29. This release […]

From the ‘open-source nomenclature’ files: Debate is currently raging in the open-source PHP community over what the number will be for the version of PHP that will succeed the current PHP 5.x series. While it might seem obvious that PHP 6, should be the next major branch, the PHP community is actually debating whether or […]

From the ‘What Follows Juno’? files: At long last, the OpenStack Community has settled on a name for its’ ‘K’ release that is set to follow the Juno release which should be out in October. The K release is now officially known as: Kilo OpenStack release manager Thierry Carrez wrote: “k” is the unit symbol […]

eNovance is one of the top 10 contributors to the open-source OpenStack platform, as is Red Hat. What eNovance brings to the table is a services business around OpenStack. Arun Oberoi, executive vice president of global sales and services at Red Hat, told eWEEK that from a services standpoint, eNovance brings a lot of breadth, […]

Riverbed acquired OPNET in a $1 billion deal back in 2012 in a bid to expand its APM product portfolio. Nik Koutsoukos, senior director of product marketing for Riverbed SteelCentral, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet that AppInternals consists of two components. The first component involves collector agents that are deployed and the second component is […]

Zuk Avraham, founder and CEO of Zimperium, alleges in new report that LinkedIn has left its users exposed to potential exploitation, due to the way the site uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. – Zimperium’s technology, zANTI,is a security research tool that allows IT managers to test for vulnerabilities in their network, such as SSLstrip. […]

With a decentralized structure, no one group should be able to have undue influence or control over Bitcoin. That idea is now being tested as a pair of Cornell university researchers revealed that a Bitcoin mining collective called Ghash.io managed to represent 51 percent of Bitcoin mining power as of June 13. With Bitcoin, as […]

A legal challenge from civil liberties groups around the world against the United Kingdom’s intelligence services, including the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), over mass surveillance has yielded some interesting insight into the perceived legality of the practice. On June 17, Privacy International published the witness statement of Charles Farr, director general of the Office for […]

When security vulnerabilities strike in the cloud, it’s important to make sure there is a playbook in place to know how to respond. Cloud vendor Rackspace has seen its fair share of security incidents, including the Heartbleed security vulnerability, which left the entire IT industry scrambling back in April. In a video interview with eWEEK, […]

Prior to Helion, HP had another OpenStack cloud effort that is now being rebased with a different Linux distribution at its core. In a video interview, Bill Hilf, VP Product Management for HP Cloud, explains what role Linux plays within a cloud platform like HP Helion. HP Helion uses its own version of Linux based […]

Cisco announced on June 17, the acquisition of privately held Tail-f Systems for $175 million in cash. The deal is set to close in the fourth quarter of Cisco’s fiscal 2014 year. With the acquisition of Tail-f, the Cisco product portfolio gains some much-needed device and network configuration management solutions. Tail-f’s technologies center around the […]