Sean Michael Kerner

Network security vendor Palo Alto Networks this week announced an update to its software, with the PAN-OS 7.1 operating system that powers its network security appliances, with new features to help secure cloud usage, improve threat intelligence and help secure user credentials. Read the full story at Enterprise Networking Planet: Palo Alto Networks Updates Networking […]

Fundamentally DevOps is about accelerating both the development and the deployment process for applications and to really enable it requires both process and technology. Among hte popular tools used for DevOps approaches today are Chef, Puppet and Ansible, which all help to enable repeatable configuration and deployment. Steve Herrod, managing director at venture capital firm […]

In computer science, the Byzantine fault tolerance concept describes a system that is able to survive multiple and arbitrary forms of attack or failure of its component parts. Now five years into Bromium’s life, Crosby remains confident that his company is delivering on its promise. Bromium isn’t just delivering on its technology promise, it’s also […]

SUSE named a new CTO today, with Dr. Thomas Di Giacomo taking on the the role of Chief Technology Officer, reporting to CEO Nils Brauckmann. The last time I personally ever spoke to a SUSE CTO was way back in 2009, when Markus Rex (now CEO of OwnCloud) held the job, and SUSE was still […]

It’s time. After a typical six month development cycle since the OpenStack Liberty release, the first OpenStack Mitaka milestones are now starting to appear. The first out of the gate is the Glance image project, which released its Mitaka RC1 milestone on March 16. Glance was quickly followed the same day by Heat, Neutron and […]

Andi Gutmans, co-founder of Zend and its CEO for many of those years is leaving the company, just a few short months after it was acquired by Rogue Wave. I’ve been a huge fan of Gutmans for many years, and have had the good luck to speak with him dozens of times over the past […]

There are a number of reasons why an Amazon Web Services (AWS) user might need to violate the acceptable terms of use – including the onset of a zombie apocalypse. Amazon updated its terms of service this week alongside its Lumberyard gaming development platform, with a new provision about acceptable use in connection with safety-critical […]

There was a time when SourceForge was the defacto default standard open-source code repository. That time is not now – as Github and mis-steps at SourceForge have eroded both the mind and market share that SourceForge once had. Now SourceForge is taking its first step to rebuilding credibility with its developer and user community by […]

The OpenStack Foundation election of Individual Directors to the Board of Directors has now completed and the winning candidates have been announced. Among the familiar getting voted up for the 2016 slate are: Tim BellRussell Bryant Boris Renski Kavit Munshi Allison Randal Egle Sigler Monty TaylorShane Wang The individual directors are all voted on my […]

It’s not yet official, but the names of the ‘N’ and ‘O’ OpenStack releases have been voted on and there is a (preliminary) pair of winners. The ‘M’ Release is codenamed Mitaka and will be out in April. The M naming cycle was particularly interesting as the initial winner ‘Meiji’ was ultimately rescinded after community […]

Surprised, shocked and left wondering what really happened – these are the emotions I (and many others) feel about the passing of Ian Murdock, founder of Debian Linux. On Monday night, like thousands of others, I saw (and retweeted) some of Ian Murdock’s tweets about an alleged police abuse incident, today those tweets and the […]

The OpenStack cloud community is now voting on the names for the two releases set to follow OpenStack Mitaka which should debut in April of 2016. The following two releases – the ‘N’ release in October of 2016 and the ‘O’ release of April 2017 don’t yet have a name. OpenStack release names are tied […]