Sean Michael Kerner

Last week, Cisco announced its new Evolved Services Platform, part of the company’s Open Networking Environment (ONE) first introduced in 2012. Sanjeev Mervana, senior director of service provider marketing at Cisco, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet that in the three-layer Cisco ONE service provider architecture, the Cisco Evolved Services Platform is the middle layer, between the application […]

Security vendor AlienVault is set to release a milestone update in early March for both its open-source and commercial Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions, aiming to provide an improved user experience and enhanced security visibility. SIEM technology plays a pivotal role in the modern security landscape, enabling organizations to log and monitor security […]

As a platform, OpenStack supports multiple virtualization hypervisor technologies, including VMware. Jarvis explained that the SUSE Cloud solution leverages a VMware vCenter driver, which enables customers to use existing VMware virtualized nodes or add additional VMware nodes. Looking forward, Jarvis said next two big things for SUSE Cloud will be high availability and the OpenStack […]

A key part of the overall solution is Alcatel-Lucent’s Cloudband technology, the company’s NFV platform that provides the server, storage and networking infrastructure with the Cloudband Node. Cloudband also includes management and orchestration functionality to deploy and manage network functions deployed on the infrastructure. Gulyani said that Alcatel-Lucent is using Red Hat’s OpenStack Platform to […]

Career website Dice.com is out with its annual Linux Jobs market report and once again demand is growing. The report is sponsored by the Linux Foundation, which does of course have its own particular bias when it comes to Linux, though there are still a few surprises in it. “Based on our work with the […]

Bluebox is backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim, and recently announced an $18 million round of funding to fuel its efforts. Bluebox CEO Caleb Sima explained to eWEEK that his company’s technology is focused on data security as opposed to device security. The Bluebox offering includes a feature called instant app […]

The Ubuntu Phone is set to make its debut in 2014. In a phone press conference this week, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor of Ubuntu Linux, formally announced the company’s plans to launch phone hardware this year. A key part of the Ubuntu Phone promise is that of code convergence. Currently, […]

Intel is introducing 20 different product SKUs as part of the Xeon E7 v2 rollout with different cache sizes, core counts and frequency ratings. “With 4.3 billion transistors on a die, utilizing our 22 nanometer trigate 3D transistor technology, it integrates up to 15 cores per socket and each of those cores is hyper-threaded, and […]

“It really comes down to where the rubber meets the road for the technology, being able to cut through with a clear and direct message and being able to execute properly on sales” -Caleb Sima, CEO BlueBox (eWEEK) “As the core count, memory capacity and CPU frequency all increase it’s important that the I/O scales […]

For the quarter, Brocade reported $565 million in revenue, a decline of 4 percent year-over-year. Net income was reported at $81 million, which stands in sharp contrast with the $21 million net loss that Brocade reported for the first quarter of 2013. Looking at Brocade’s business from a product mix perspective, the SAN storage business […]

The need for stronger forms of authentication that are more robust than simply having a username and password is critical in the modern world. That’s where two-factor authentication comes in—adding a second item that is unique and randomly generated in order to secure authentication. There are multiple vendors and technologies at play in the two-factor […]

Cisco reported its second quarter fiscal 2014 earnings late Wednesday, with revenue coming in at $11.2 billion, a 7.8 percent year-over-year decline. Net Income was $1.4 billion, a 54.5 percent year-over-year drop. Cisco’s outlook wasn’t great, either, with third quarter revenues expected to decline in the range of 6-8 percent. A key contributor to Cisco’s […]