Sean Michael Kerner

Read the full story at Datamation: Datera Raises $40M for for Cloud Elastic Data Fabric Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.

Over the next five years, the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for cloud IT infrastructure spend is expected to slow from the 2016 high. IDC is now forecasting that $57.8 billion will be spent on cloud in 2020, which is a 12.5 percent five-year CAGR. By 2020, IDC is also now forecasting that cloud will […]

While its true that Amazon and OpenStack in some respects are competitive, in others they aren’t, which is why at this point in 2016, both continue to thrive. At this point the business value of the cloud is something that many organizations understand. What isn’t always clear though is which cloud provider to choose and […]

Read the full story at Enterprise Apps Today: Cloudera Gives Hadoop a Spark Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.

Network security can only go so far, and there are plenty of incidents where an insider threat is responsible for an attack, Steven Chen, founder and CEO of PFP Cybersecurity said. PFP’s technology cannot prevent attacks from occurring; however, PFP and power analysis will see attacks in progress, he added. “What we want to do […]

Snort++ the next generation of the Snort project is currently in active development and will also one day become the base for Cisco Firepower IPS and next generation firewall technology as well. In a video interview, Roesch discusses how the next generation of Snort is evolving and why open-source remains a core part of Cisco’s […]

OpenStack Mitaka is the 13th release from the open-source cloud effort, which Rackspace and NASA began in June 2010. The OpenStack community has grown significantly, and the technology is now used at some of the largest organizations, including Walmart, eBay, PayPal, AT&T, Comcast, IBM, Cisco, Dell, Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Mitaka follows Liberty, which debuted […]

OpenStack vendor Mirantis has scored a big win, landing automobile giant Volkswagen (VW) Group as a new cloud customer. VW will be using Mirantis OpenStack cloud technology across all of its brands including Audi, VW, Porsche, Bentley and Skoda to enable a more agile DevOps model for building applications that support customers and partners around […]

In July of 2015, Rackspace first started up its Barreleye servers, working together with partners Avago, IBM, Ingrasys, Mellanox, PMC and Samsung. The official specification for the Barreleye server were submitted to the Open Compute project in January and formally accepted in February 2016. “The Barreleye platform consists of IBM POWER8 “Turismo” SCM (Single Chip […]

Among the many customers of AWS is Major League Baseball, which began its 2016 baseball season this week. Appropriately, Bezos provided a baseball analogy for the success that AWS has seen to date: “We all know that if you swing for the fences, you’re going to strike out a lot, but you’re also going to […]

The Veriflow technology is deployed as a virtual appliance, either on premises or in the cloud, and collects information for each device in a given network. Veriflow has a deep understanding of the dataplane, which is the lowest level that defines a device’s state and includes attributes such as access control lists (ACLs) and content […]

Google’s April patch update for Android was officially announced on April 4, providing 39 security patches, 15 of which are rated by Google as being critical. Among the critical patches is CVE-2016-0842, which is a remote code execution vulnerability in Stagefright. Flaws in the Android Stagefright media library were first publicly announced by in July […]