Sean Michael Kerner

“A display server is a fundamental part of how an operating system works.” –Canonical’s Ubuntu product manager, Richard Collins explaining the importance of Mir in the Ubuntu 13.10 Linux release (eWEEK) “From the very beginning, we have based our community on sharing code and sharing knowledge” Mark Collier, Chief Operating Officer, OpenStack Foundation (eWEEK)  “At […]

Among the many contributors to OpenStack development, Linux vendor Red Hat tops the list as measured by volume of code contributions. For the Havana release, Red Hat made 3,381 code commits, which represent 21 percent of the code for Havana. Tim Burke, VP Cloud Computing and Virtualization Development at Red Hat, explained to Datamation that […]

Ubuntu is an open-source Linux operating system distribution, backed by commercial vendor Canonical. Canonical’s Ubuntu product manager, Richard Collins, explained to eWEEK that the 13.10 release is a key milestone for his company in providing a single operating system that can run across different device types with little adjustment. Collins said that what has landed […]

The open-source OpenStack Foundation is out today with its latest milestone release, code-named Havana. The OpenStack Havana release includes new projects for cloud orchestration and monitoring and improves on existing compute, storage and networking capabilities. Increased participation in the open-source project has led to new features being contributed and developed, Jonathan Bryce, executive director of […]

From the ‘PHP Rocks’ files: PHP 5.5 was first released in June of this year and has been upgraded frequently ever since. PHP 5.5.5 was released today providing 20 new bug fixes. So far as I can tell, none of them have any specific security impact. These are stability updates and none are tied to […]

Tom Jacobs, senior director of service provider marketing at Juniper Networks, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet that his company is now announcing new line cards that boost MX capacity in different ways. “Applicable to the MX2010 and 2020 platforms, we’ve announced the MPC6 card that brings 520G capacity per slot, ” Jacobs said. There is […]

Year after year, Internet bandwidth connection speeds continue to grow. The newly released second quarter 2013 State of the Internet report from Akamai shows that for the first time ever, more than half of all connections were 4 Mbps or faster. David Belson, author of the State of the Internet report, is not particularly surprised […]

Among the key additions in Hadoop 2.0 is a technology called YARN, which Murthy explained is the operating system to run applications such as MapReduce and Storm. “YARN provides resource management in a generic manner,” he said. Murthy explained that in Hadoop 1.x MapReduce was both the system and the framework. Because it was so […]

Nginx, the lead commercial sponsor behind the open-source Nginx Web server, aims to grow its business, with a boost from a fresh capital injection of $10 million. The new funding is a Series B round led by venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and brings the total funding to date for Nginx to $13 […]

While Java is getting 51 fixes, Oracle’s namesake database is only receiving two fixes in the October CPU. Oracle’s Fusion middleware is not as lucky—receiving 17 security fixes, 12 of which patch vulnerabilities that are remotely exploitable without authentication. The Oracle and Sun Systems Products Suite is being updated with 12 patches, with five of […]

Avaya is also its flagship Aura platform with a new collaboration environment. Monday explained that the Aura Collaboration environment is a new middleware platform that opens up an opportunity for developers and customers to write applications specific to customers needs. “Collaboration Environment is a layer that goes on top of an Aura deployment. It is […]

VMware is continuing to expand its virtualization and cloud solutions with a series of new product releases announced today at the company’s VMworld Europe event. On the end-user computing side, VMware announced the acquisition of Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) vendor Desktone. Financial terms of the deal have not been publicly disclosed. Erik Frieberg, VP of product marketing, […]