Sean Michael Kerner

In a video interview with eWEEK, Allan Clark, chairman of the board for the OpenStack Foundation, details what was discussed in board meetings at the Summit this week. Clark also provides insight into new initiatives that the OpenStack Foundation is looking to undertake to further advance its position in the market. From an organizational perspective, […]

Back on May 8, popular URL-shortening service Bitly admitted that its systems were compromised. As it turns out, Bitly has now disclosed that the problem is just the latest example of an insider compromise. “We audited the security history for our hosted source code repository that contains the credentials for access to the offsite database […]

Jesse Proudman started Blue Box Group in 2003 to provide hosting for complex open-source applications. Proudman is stepping back from the role of CEO and has hired Matthew Schiltz, the former CEO of Tier 3, to replace him. Tier 3 was acquired by CenturyLink in November 2013. In a video interview with eWEEK, Proudman discusses […]

In a move that seems somewhat obvious, Oracle May 13 announced OpenStack support for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM. Oracle had previously announced OpenStack support for its Solaris 11.2 Unix operating system that is currently in beta. The support is coming as a technology preview of an OpenStack distribution that works with Oracle Linux and […]

In a dramatic keynote presentation at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, Shuttleworth performed technology demonstrations and made multiple new technology initiative announcements. “Nearly 70 percent of OpenStack public clouds run on Ubuntu,” Shuttleworth said. Shuttleworth performed a number of live installations of OpenStack on Ubuntu on stage. At the core of Ubuntu’s Linux technology is […]

Security is one of the most often cited barriers to cloud adoption, but experts speaking at the summit don’t see it as an obstacle. Enterprises really should look at cloud security from the opposite viewpoint, said Bryan Payne, director of security research at Nebula. “Cloud is an interesting opportunity to do really good security work,” […]

From the ‘It’s Not the Marshmallow Man’ files: ATLANTA. There seems to be no shortage of interesting OpenStack installer projects and at that OpenStack Summit this week I learned about another one. Currently known as Project Staypuft – in homage to the Ghostbusters movie monster – Staypuft is essentially an installer for an installer (Foreman). […]

The new Marketplace includes multiple categories based on an organization’s consumption model for cloud services, Johnathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, explained to eWEEK. Those categories include infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) vendors, OpenStack distributions, consultants, training and compatible drivers. The Marketplace isn’t just a simple listing of services and vendors either. There are multiple degrees […]

The ManageIQ technology is proprietary, though Red Hat has pledged to make it open-source. As part of making it open-source, the new ManageIQ community will help organize and develop the project. Red Hat already has a number of partners that are founding members of the ManageIQ community, including AutoTrader Group, Booz Allen Hamilton, Chef and […]

Technically, the Heartbleed flaw is identified as CVE-2014-0160 and called “TLS heartbeat read overrun.” It is found within the open-source OpenSSL cryptographic library, which provides Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption capabilities for data in transit. The OpenSSL project first released its own patch for the Heartbleed flaw on April 7, but that hasn’t meant that […]

Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS, told eWEEK that so far he has raised a seed round of financing in an amount that has not yet been publicly disclosed. CoreOS has been in alpha since August 2013. CoreOS has a number of differentiated features that make it ideal for high availability container use, Polvi claimed. A […]

The CEO of Bitly publicly admitted on May 8 that the company’s URL-shortening service was compromised. Bitly CEO Mark Josephson blogged that compromised credentials include users’ email addresses, encrypted passwords, API keys and OAuth tokens. OAuth tokens are used to connect a Bitly account to identity systems from Facebook and Twitter for user access. Read […]