Sean Michael Kerner

OpenShift Enterprise 2.0 brings new data center and networking features that expand on the initial promise of the first release of the OpenShift Enterprise platform in 2012. Red Hat has multiple versions of OpenShift, including a hosted online edition and the community-supported Origin open-source edition. The OpenShift Online edition iterates rapidly and benefits from a […]

Infonetics Research recently published preliminary data from its 3rd quarter 2013 (3Q13) Data Center Network Equipment report, sizing the Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and WAN Optimization markets. According to Infonetics, global revenues for the ADC market reached $435 million during 3Q13. In terms of vendors, F5 remains the top vendor by revenue, followed by Citrix […]

The Akamai Kona service is a DDoS prevention system, though it has been limited to protecting Web applications only. In an analyst call to discuss the Prolexic deal, Akamai’s CEO Tom Leighton explained how Prolexic’s DDoS technology is different than what Akamai had been offering. “Prolexic focuses on the data center and the IP space, […]

While attackers are going after Bitcoin-related sites, there is an important distinction between the security of the Bitcoin network and the Bitcoin exchanges, Joe DeMesy, senior security analyst at Bishop Fox, said. “The Bitcoin network is a network of computers that communicate using the Bitcoin protocol, allowing persons within the network to exchange and mine […]

Among the highlights of the Linux Mint 16 release is the latest generation of the Cinnamon desktop. Linux Mint is also available with other desktop environments, including MATE, which is a fork of the GNOME 2.x desktop. The new desktop environments included in Linux Mint 16 aim to offer improved performance and usability to Linux […]

There are many hundreds of developers who contribute code to the open-source OpenStack cloud platform. For the recent OpenStack Havana release, the top developer as measured by the volume of code commits was Monty Taylor, distinguished engineer at Hewlett-Packard. In a video interview with eWEEK, Taylor explains what he actually does at HP and how […]

A Trustwave researcher finds some serious flaws in Apple iOS apps that could be opening up users to exploitation. File sharing apps for Apple iOS mobile devices can potentially represent a security risk to users, according to a Trustwave security researcher. Bruno Goncalves de Oliveira, senior security consultant at Trustwave, explained to eWEEK that he […]

For the quarter, HP reported revenue of $29.1 billion, down three percent year-over-year. For HP’s full fiscal 2013, revenue was $112.3 billion, down 7 percent year-over-year. “With the final quarter of our fix and rebuild year now behind us, I am pleased with our progress in fiscal 2013,” Whitman said during her company’s earnings call. […]

In the modern world, keeping safe is now evolving from just keeping an eye on your purchases and your physical wallet to being aware of unseen digital risks too. I recently saw a wallet in a retail store that included a feature I had never before seen: radio frequency identification (RFID) protection. On the side […]

The modern world of virtualization has largely been dominated with virtual machine hypervisor technologies like VMware, KVM and Xen, but there are alternatives. Among them is the increasingly popular Docker open-source container technology. Docker issued the 0.7 release of its namesake technology today, expanding the base of its support to all major Linux distributions. In […]

For the first quarter of fiscal 2014, Palo Alto reported revenue fo $128.2 million which is a 49 percent year-over-year gain. Looking forward, the company provided second quarter guidance for revenue to be in the range of $132 million to $136 million, which translates into a 37 percent to 41 percent year-over-year gain. “Q1 was […]

Although security vendors continue to do their best to conquer malware, malware authors continue to up the ante. According to Panda Labs’ third-quarter 2013 report, new malware creation is now at an all-time high. PandaLabs reported that from January to September 2013, there have been nearly 10 million new malware strains identified, which is as […]