Sean Michael Kerner

In the early days of the open-source OpenStack cloud platform’s development, Citrix Systems was a key backer adopting the platform as the basis for its own Project Olympus commercial OpenStack effort in 2011. Citrix ended up abandoning Project Olympus in 2012 in favor of the open-source Apache CloudStack platform. As it turns out, Citrix in […]

The OpenShift online service first became generally available in June after two years of beta preview deployments. The first two years of deployments gave OpenShift customers a free tier of services that were expanded in June with new commercially supported service levels. Now, Red Hat is cutting the price of its paid OpenShift Online service […]

HONG KONG—The open-source OpenStack Foundation held its semiannual Design Summit here Nov. 5-8, discussing all manner of topics related to the cloud. As the first OpenStack Summit held outside of the United States, the event had a strong emphasis throughout on the global nature of the OpenStack cloud platform and, more specifically, the high levels […]

HONG KONG—Barely six months ago, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong and blew the whistle on widespread snooping. In the same city where those revelations were first disclosed, American cloud vendors attending the OpenStack Summit told eWEEK that they are not being heavily impacted by the disclosure and are remaining […]

Qihoo 360 is another big online service in China and it provides Cloud-based security and mobile services. Yufang Zhang, System Engineer at Qihoo 360, said that his company has 450 million users in China today. Those users generate more than 2 billion pageviews per day on the company’s mobile platform. From a security perspective the […]

Bob Russo, Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) general manager, told eWEEK that over the last few months as his organization has been discussing the new standard with its members, the response has been very positive. The PCI SSC started to publicly promote and discuss the new PCI-DSS 3.0 standard in August. The […]

HONG KONG–The open-source OpenStack Foundation held its Summit event here this week talking about current achievements and defining a path for the road ahead. Helping to oversee that direction is Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation. In an exclusive eWEEK video interview, Bryce details the progress discussed in Hong Kong. Read the full […]

Speaking at the OpenStack Summit here, Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens explained that his company is all about open source, and OpenStack is one of the best examples in the world today of the open source model at its best. Mark McLoughlin, Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, said that in order to make […]

HONG KONG—Monty Taylor has the title of Distinguished Engineer at Hewlett-Packard and also holds the distinction of currently being the top open-source OpenStack cloud developer in the world, based on the volume of code commits. Speaking at the OpenStack Summit here, Taylor delivered a keynote address giving his views on why OpenStack works and why […]

At the VMworld event in August, Red Hat had the audacity to demonstrate a rival’s product to VMware for multi-cloud management. At the time, Red Hat named the product CloudForms version 2.1. This week, Red Hat is pulling CloudForms 2.1 out of preview and rebranding it as CloudForms 3.0. “Given the number of new features […]

Cisco teased the market with some preliminary insight into Insieme in June of this year. Insieme is all about Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), a network approach that is now being integrated into a new set of products from Cisco. From a network hardware perspective, Cisco is launching a new Nexus 9000 switching family, which will […]

The F5 Synthesis effort isn’t about any one new particular product or service, but rather about defining an architectural approach for Software Defined Application Services (SDAS). “Synthesis is the tying together of hardware, software, virtual and cloud technologies,” Lori MacVittie, senior product manager, Emerging Technologies at F5, told Enterprise Networking Planet. “It’s all tied together […]