Sean Michael Kerner

Does the cloud need its own operating system? The founders of startup Cloudius think so. 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Linux vendor SUSE is releasing its latest open-source OpenStack cloud platform-based product today, 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 major […]

Ten years ago, Red Hat changed its business model, ending its Red Hat Linux product and launching the Fedora Core community Linux distribution in its stead. The Fedora Project was officially born Sept. 22, 2003, and Red Hat Linux officially drew its last breath in 2004 as a supported offering. Fedora has been the only […]

Providing a preview of what’s to come, Mozilla developers are now out with development versions of the next two releases of the open-source Firefox Web browser. Firefox 25 is now in Mozilla’s beta channel and follows Mozilla’s release of Firefox 24 last week. On the desktop side of Firefox 25, bug fixes top the list […]

The open-source OpenStack cloud platform is a rapidly growing effort that is driving increasing demand for skilled professionals who know what it’s all it about. To that end, the OpenStack Foundation this week officially announced the OpenStack Training Marketplace to help meet the demand for skilled IT professionals. In 2012, a number of companies emerged […]

Linux Luminaries Paint a Bright Future at LinuxCon by Sean Michael Kerner Linux Foundation Scaling the Legal Community Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, delivered his annual State of Linux address at LinuxCon. One of the key items the Linux Foundation is working on is helping to scale the legal resources that are […]

Linux vendor Red Hat is working with virtualization vendor dotCloud to bring a new type of open-source container technology, called “Docker,” to the Fedora community Linux project. Fedora is a Linux project that is sponsored by Red Hat. Virtualization technology on Linux today typically includes hypervisors such as KVM and Xen as well as container […]