Sean Michael Kerner

The OpenStack Icehouse release debuted this week, providing users of the open-source cloud platform with a long list of new features. OpenStack got its start back in July of 2010 as a joint open-source effort between Rackspace and NASA. OpenStack has since expanded to include the biggest names in the IT industry with IBM, Cisco, […]

“If I already have a security guard at the door, if you discover that the door isn’t locking correctly, doesn’t that all of a sudden make us vulnerable. You’ll get the lock fixed, but my security guard was still defending that door.” -Mike Fey, CTO Intel Security (eWEEK)   “The single most chaotic open-source project […]

In its 2014 VoIP and UC Services and Subscribers report, Infonetics forecasts that by 2018, VoIP services revenue will hit $88 billion. In contrast, for 2013, Infonetics reported that the global market for VoIP services brought in $68 billion in revenue, an eight percent gain over 2012. A number of drivers contribute to the continued […]

For the quarter, IBM reported revenue of $22.5 billion, for a four percent year-over-year decline. The biggest drag on IBM’s revenue was its Systems and Technology hardware unit, with reported revenue of $2.4 billion for a 23 percent year-over-year decline. “We had strong growth in software, but hardware performance, especially in the U.S. remains challenged,” […]

The Ubuntu 14.04 release, dubbed the “Trusty Tahr,” is now available, providing users with a Linux desktop that will be supported for the next five years. The new Linux distribution comes at a very opportune time, given Microsoft’s recent end of life for support on Windows XP. Ubuntu is a great alternative to replace Windows […]

While Red Hat does win some of its business from competitive migrations, CEO Jim Whitehurst stressed during his company’s Analyst Day event this week, that’s not the primary area for his company’s future growth. “How we take share is we win an inordinate share of new applications,” he said. Whitehurst said he rarely walks into […]

The Heartbleed bug has dominated the security headlines for the past week as organizations around the world scramble to limit the risk. Although the impact of Heartbleed globally is still being calculated, the first arrest in the world related to the Secure Sockets Layer encryption flaw has now been made. On April 16, the Royal […]

Intel reported its first quarter fiscal 2014 earnings late Tuesday, showing strength in the data center and the emerging market for the Internet of Things. For the quarter, revenue was reported at $12.8 billion for a one percent year-over-year gain. Net Income was reported at $1.9 billion for a five percent year-over-year decline. Looking forward, […]

Among the new features that have landed in OpenStack Icehouse that were specifically driven by user feedback is an improved federated identity capability. “Now you can use a single credential and be able to log into multiple public and private clouds,” Mark Collier, Chief Operating Officer of the OpenStack Foundation said. “That’s a key step […]

VMware this week announce a new service that brings full disaster recovery capabilities to its users. The new VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) Disaster Recovery (DR) solution allows virtualized data centers and enterprises to seamlessly enable DR services in their existing deployments. Mathew Lodge, VP of Cloud Services Product Marketing and Management at VMware, explained […]

While Websites around the world have scrambled to implement a patch for the Heartbleed flaw, it’s also a vulnerability that impacts Google’s Android mobile users. While Google has issued some patches for its products and services, Android 4.1 remains at risk. The Android 4.1 “Jelly Bean” mobile operating system was released back in 2012, though […]

Cisco does not have its own Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution. Other big IT vendors in recent years have positioned SIEM at the foundation of security. IBM has its qRadar solution, while HP has the ArcSight platform. In a video interview with Enterprise Networking Planet, Chris Young, SVP of Security at Cisco, explains […]