Sean Michael Kerner

At Amazon’s re:invent conference in Las Vegas last week, CTO Werner Vogels detailed a number of new cloud services that his company is now officially launching. Those services include the new Kinesis real-time event streaming service, new virtual server instances for high-performance computing and support for the open source PostgreSQL database in Amazon’s Relational Database […]

Cisco reported its first quarter fiscal 2014 earnings late Wednesday with revenue coming in at $12.1 billion, a 1.8 percent year-over-year gain. The vendor reported $2.0 billion in net income, a 4.6 percent year-over-year decline. Moving forward, Cisco provided second quarter fiscal 2014 guidance for total revenue to decline in the range of 8 to […]

SUSE is expanding the support on its flagship Linux distribution from 10 years to 13 years. The enterprise Linux vendor is also expanding its partnership efforts with Microsoft as well as its ecosystem efforts to improve Linux drivers. Nils Brauckmann, president and general manager for SUSE, announced the new longer-term support for SUSE Linux Enterprise […]

One of the largest threats facing IT organizations today is not necessarily from outside attackers, but rather the simple fact that there just aren’t enough skilled security professionals. To help change that situation IBM is expanding its cybersecurity education efforts in a bid to make security information training and skills more broadly available. IBM is […]

While many see security as being a barrier to cloud adoption, the Cloud Security Alliance has a very different viewpoint. The CSA sees the cloud as being the technology platform that could extend and improve security across the IT landscape. Junaid Islam, founder and CTO of Vidder and a member of the CSA, told eWEEK […]

At the beginning of the PC era, Internet security was not much of a concern as people simply booted their machines and loaded programs without worry. In that earlier, more innocent era, the term “virus” was relegated strictly to the realm of clinical biology and only living things could actually get viruses. That all changed […]

The mobile Pwn2Own event was co-located last weekat the PacSec Conference in Tokyo and offers the promise of $300,000 in prize money to researchers who successfully demonstrate previously unknown mobile attacks and vulnerabilities. Brian Gorenc, manager of ZDI at HP Security Research, told eWEEK in a call from Japan that on Nov. 13, the first […]

VMware launched Cloud Foundry in 2011, and the technology moved to Pivotal in April as part of the spin-out of Pivotal from VMware and EMC assets. The new Pivotal One offering was first talked about by Pivotal in April of this year as being a collection of tools and services that build a complete PaaS […]

The Linux Foundation this week announced that former VMware executive Nicolas “Neela” Jacques is now the first Executive Director of the OpenDaylight Project. Jacques told Enterprise Networking Planet that the role of an executive director in an open source project is that of a facilitator. “I am coming on board to help ensure there’s a […]

The Fedora 20 beta includes an improved Network Manager that can help enable a software-defined networking (SDN) environment. The Fedora 20 release includes the Linux 3.11.x kernel that supports the Open vSwitch (OVS) virtual switch, which is a critical part of modern SDN deployments. “We’ve had support for OVS for a release or two now; […]

Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday update is now out, and once again the Internet Explorer Web browser is at the top of the list. In total, Microsoft issued eight security bulletins today, fixing 19 security vulnerabilities. Of the 19 flaws, 11 are directly related to Microsoft’s much-maligned Internet Explorer browser. One of the IE vulnerabilities is […]

In an exclusive video interview with Enterprise Networking Planet, Haiying Wang, VP and CTO of Cloud Computing at Huawei, explained why his company plans to play a key role in pushing OpenStack forward in China and around the world. Becoming a Gold Member of the OpenStack Foundation isn’t just a matter of paying a membership […]