Sean Michael Kerner

“Through this effort, we show our commitment to the open source community” Tomas Ulin, vice president for MySQL Engineering at Oracle, talking about the new MySQL 5.7 milestone release (DatabaseJournal) “The enemy of my enemy is my friend. They have been creating enemies and we have been making friends.” Brocade CEO Lloyd Carney talking about […]

The America’s Cup winning team used Wi-Fi technology from Ruckus Wireless, providing important data about the status of the ship and the environment in which it was sailing. Wi-Fi displays then made that data available to crew members. David Callisch, VP of marketing at Ruckus Wireless, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet that his company has […]

Avi Kivity and Dor Laor, co-founders of Cloudius, were formerly at Qumranet, a virtualization startup acquired by Red Hat for $108 million in 2008. Kivity is well-known in the virtualization world as being the “father” of KVM, the open-source virtualization technology that Red Hat, IBM and other major tech vendors now develop. In a video […]

GNOME is one of the primary open-source desktops in use on Linux desktops. The GNOME project benefits from a large and diverse community of developers who contribute to its success. For the 3.10 release more than 30,000 changes were made by almost 1,000 individual contributors, Matthias Clasen, member of the GNOME release team and supervisor […]

HP is now debuting a totally new OneView platform that has been designed from the ground up for converged HP infrastructure management. Bryan Jacquot, Chief Technologist for HP Converged Infrastructure, explained to ServerWatch that HP OpenView-branded offerings are generally focused on heterogeneous environments covering a wide range of management capabilities. In contrast, the new HP […]

After nine months as CEO, Lloyd Carney explained during Brocade’s Analyst Day this week what he has done to put Brocade on the path to success. One of his key initiatives focused on operational efficiency and cost containment. “We are reexamining every dollar we spend,” Carney said. That process is a very precise one, with […]

Mozilla is well-known for its open-source Firefox Web browser, which is a key target for attackers and security researchers looking to exploit Web users. Standing on the front line of the battle to help keep Firefox and its users safe is Mozilla Director of Security Assurance Michael Coates. In a video interview with eWEEK, Coates […]

Simply having an encrypted device is not enough to satisfy regulatory compliance requirements, enterprises need to also be able to manage encrypted devices. It’s a challenge that encryption management vendor Wave Systems is tackling with its Wave Cloud solution. Wave Systems this week launched its Wave Cloud 2014 solution enabling enterprises to manage self-encrypting drives […]

This week, Cisco officially announced NCS, powered by the networking giant’s nPower X1 network processor. “We need a new dimension of scale,” Surya Panditi, SVP and GM, Cisco Service Provider Networking Group, said during a press event launching the new gear. “This can scale beyond a petabit.” At the top end of the new portfolio […]

Growth for Red Hat is coming at a time when the market remains competitive across multiple sectors. For enterprise workloads, Red Hat’s CEO sees it now as a battle between Linux and Microsoft Windows. “As enterprises are looking to deploy new workloads, obviously, the choice is Windows or Linux now, and we believe we’re winning […]

Linux vendor SUSE released its latest open-source OpenStack cloud platform-based product this week, SUSE Cloud 2.0. The SUSE Cloud 2.0 release comes just over a year after the first SUSE Cloud release in August 2012. The timing of this release is also noteworthy in that it is coming out several weeks ahead of the next […]

The platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technology approach is all about enabling enterprises to deliver and deploy applications in the cloud easily. Enterprise Linux and Java middleware vendor Red Hat today is extending its PaaS vision with the concept of xPaaS, providing more developer and integration tools to further enable cloud deployments and adoption. The “x” in xPaaS […]