Sean Michael Kerner

It has been three and half years since Red Hat last issued a major new version number of its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform. A lot has happened since RHEL 7 was launched in June 2014, and Red Hat is now previewing its next-generation RHEL 8 platform in beta. Among the biggest changes in […]

SonicWall is adding multiple new features to its product portfolio, in a bid to help organizations further secure their on-premises and hybrid cloud assets against threats. Among the new features coming to SonicWall’s Capture Cloud Platform are zero-touch deployment options and software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) security features. The Capture Security Center is also being enhanced with […]

A week after the first rumors of the acquisition began to surface, BlackBerry confirmed on Nov. 16 that it is acquiring cyber-security vendor Cylance for $1.4 billion in cash. The deal is expected to close before BlackBerry’s fiscal year end in February 2019. Cylance is best known for its suite of endpoint detection and response […]

Docker Inc. announced a series of new partnerships on Nov. 15, including a new round of investment from Salesforce Ventures and a partnership with Salesforce’s Mulesoft division. The partnership provides integration between the Docker Enterprise platform and the Salesforce Mulesoft Anypoint platform, which enables organizations to design, build and manage APIs. “Excited to work with […]

BERLIN—Red Hat announced its OpenStack Platform 14 update on Nov. 15, providing users of the open-source cloud platform with an incremental set of new features. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 is based on the upstream OpenStack Rocky milestone, which became publicly available on Aug. 30. Among the new features in OSP 14 are improved networking […]

BERLIN—The OpenStack Foundation is no longer exclusively focused on its namesake cloud platform as the open-source effort is now expanding to enable the broader realm of open infrastructure. In a video interview at the OpenStack Summit here, Mark Collier, chief operating officer, and Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, detailed the group’s new […]

Once again, security researchers have demonstrated at a Pwn2Own event that fully patched mobile devices are at risk from zero-day vulnerabilities.  At Mobile Pwn2Own 2018, held in Tokyo Nov 13-14, sponsor Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) awarded a total of $325,000 to security researchers. Across the two-day event, researchers reported more than 16 new […]

On Heels of IBM Deal, Red Hat Boosts Community Linux With Fedora 29 Red Hat has been one busy company. On Oct. 28 the Linux vendor announced it was being acquired by IBM in a massive $34 billion deal. A day later, on Oct. 29, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6, a new release of the […]

BERLIN—While there is a lot of talk about large public cloud providers and other open-source cloud efforts in the media and elsewhere, the OpenStack Foundation continues to move forward, albeit with less hype than it once was able to muster. On Nov. 13, the OpenStack Foundation announced that it is rebranding its OpenStack Summit event, […]

There is a simple truism in much of IT, and that is that organizations can’t manage what they’re not aware of. As organizations increasingly make use of distributed teams that use cloud-native services, there is a nontrivial risk of application sprawl. On Nov. 13, container security vendor Twistlock announced its new open-source cloud-native discovery tool, […]