Sean Michael Kerner

Applications, whether they are at an enterprise data center or in the cloud, typically need an operating system on which to run. When it comes to virtual machines, software appliances are the answer, embedding applications with the OS. One of the easiest ways to build a software appliance is the SUSE Studio Linux technology. SUSE […]

While working for NASA as a cloud architect, Joshua McKenty helped to build the Nebula compute project and start the OpenStack open source cloud platform. McKenty has since gone on to found Piston Cloud computing, which launched its first public release in September of 2011. Piston is now updating its OpenStack solution in a 2.0 […]

In recent years, the open source OpenStack platform has become a major force in cloud computing. OpenStack’s backers including the biggest names in IT including Dell, HP, IBM, Cisco, AT&T and many others. Today the seventh major milestone release of OpenStack is officially becoming generally available. The OpenStack Grizzly release comes after six months of […]

Mozilla is out today with the new Firefox 20 open source web browser release. The new browser is notable in that it provides a privacy fix that some users have been asking about for over four years. The Firefox 3.1 release back in 2008, introduced a Private Mode for browsing. In private mode, user history […]

Enterprise Linux vendor Red Hat reported its full year fiscal 2013 earnings late Wednesday, showing continued growth and future opportunities. To date, Red Hat has made the bulk of its fortunes from Linux, though with an enterprise OpenStack cloud offering on the horizon, that could change. For the full year, Red Hat reported revenue of […]

Gaming is among the most resource-consuming and complex of all computing tasks. Historically gaming has been the realm of native code running on bare metal operating systems, but thanks to a new effort from Mozilla, real gaming via a web browser is now a reality. Mozilla today announced that it has been working with producer […]

A year ago, Citrix walked away from its open source OpenStack effort called Project Olympus, instead putting its CloudStack technology into the Apache Software Foundation. For the past year, CloudStack has been in the Apache Incubator, a preliminary process for new projects at the Foundation that aims to validate that a project can follow the […]

How do Cisco, WebEx, PayPal and NASA deploy and manage OpenStack clouds? They all benefit from some FUEL. FUEL is a library of OpenStack cloud management tools, assembled by integrator Mirantis. Mirantis is a leading OpenStack services vendor and recently raised $10 million in funding. Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits Protecting your company’s data is […]

The world of Cloud security standards is not for the faint of heart. There is a vast intertwined jungle of overlapping standards, certification and compliance efforts that all relate to cloud. One of the leading organizations in the Cloud security world is the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). The CSA is now encouraging Cloud providers and […]

For many types of applications, in order to accurately understand what is going on within them, access to source code is typically required. When it comes to Android Apps, a new effort from startup Bluebox Security is set to make access and visibility into mobile code easier than ever before. Bluebox is a mobile security […]