Sean Michael Kerner

As cloud computing, and the need for qualified individuals to operate and manage cloud environments, grows rapidly, Red Hat is launching a new training program as well as the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Infrastructure as a Service to help teach and certify skilled professionals. Red Hat is well-known as a Linux vendor and […]

Hewlett-Packard is updating its Fortify Static Code Analyzer (SCA) to version 4.0, boosting both the performance, accuracy and feature set of the security and code quality tool. Static Analysis refers to the examination of code at rest that is not actually running. Such an analysis can often find programmatic code errors that can impact code […]

Open-source NoSQL database vendor Couchbase has raised a new $25 million Series D round of funding to further the technical and business development of the company’s namesake database. Bob Wiederhold, Couchbase CEO, told eWEEK that in total to date, his company has raised $55 million across four rounds of funding. Couchbase is still a relatively […]

Late yesterday afternoon, my twitterstream lit up like fireworks that The New York Times Website was down. Once again rampant early speculation was that an attack had occurred—and this time (as opposed to the last time) it had. In a brazen attack against domain registrar Melbourne IT, host for NYtimes.com, Twitter, Huffington Post and other […]

VMware and Linux vendor SUSE Linux have extended their partnership to the hybrid cloud. SUSE Linux announced Aug. 27 that its Linux distribution is available on the newly launched VMware vCloud Hybrid Service that just became generally available Aug. 26. “SUSE Linux Enterprise Server will be available in the VMware vCloud Hybrid Service catalog and […]

The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), an online hacktivist group with ties to embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has launched its most devastating cyber-attack yet, taking down multiple Web destinations, including The New York Times. The New York Times’ Twitter feed first publicly acknowledged that the NYtimes.com site was down at 4:47 p.m. EDT on Aug. […]

The prevailing wisdom is that longer, more complex passwords and passphrases are more difficult to crack and are more secure for users. While complex passwords and passphrases are still a better approach than simple words and short passwords, new technology out this week will now make it faster to crack longer, complex passwords. The oclHashcat-plus […]

VMware CEO’s ‘State of the Virtual Union’ Keynote: 10 Takeaways by Sean Michael Kerner Pat Gelsinger Takes the VMworld Keynote Stage Without Paul Maritz VMworld 2013 is Pat Gelsinger’s second as VMware’s CEO. At the 2012 event, the baton was passed to him by outgoing CEO Paul Maritz, who now heads VMware spin-off Pivotal. From […]

Check Point Software Technologies is updating its Software Blade Architecture for network security services with the R77 release today. The R77 release provides new threat emulation capabilities that are intended to help limit the risk of zero-day exploits. The Software Blade Architecture is Check Point’s platform for delivering multiple “blades” of security capabilities, including firewall, […]

The Linux Foundation is growing its roster of collaboration projects by expanding from the physical into the biological realm with the OpenBEL (Biological Expression Language). The Linux Foundation, best known as the organization that helps bring Linux vendors and developers together, is also growing its expertise as a facilitator for collaborative development projects. “Companies in […]