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OpenStack Summit Returns to Austin With Much Fanfare With live music, demos and lots of users, the 2016 OpenStack Summit in Austin was vastly different from the cloud technology’s first summit six years ago. OpenStack Homecoming in Austin The first OpenStack Summit ever was held in Austin, and there were only 75 attendees. In contrast, […]

AUSTIN, Texas–Overseeing the overall governance of the OpenStack Foundation is the board of directors, which has undergone some changes in the last six months with new members. Alan Clark has been the chairman of the OpenStack Foundation since the foundation was created in 2012 and chaired a number of meetings run by the board at […]

AUSTIN, Texas–IBM is one of the biggest contributors to the open-source OpenStack platform, which helps to serve as a core component of IBM’s cloud efforts. Helping to lead IBM’s cloud efforts is Angel Diaz, vice president of Cloud Architecture and Technology, who has taken a very developer hands-on approach to make sure IBM leads by […]

AUSTIN, Texas—There are a lot of projects, configurations and code that make up an OpenStack cloud, presenting what could potentially be an attractive attack surface to a hacker. At the OpenStack Summit here, Robert Clark, leader of the OpenStack Security Project, detailed the different ways that security is addressed by OpenStack. Clark is a familiar […]

AUSTIN, Texas — When it comes to the OpenStack cloud, one of many things that are hard to get a handle on is the size of the market in terms of financial metrics. That’s a challenge Al Sadowski, research director at 451 Research, has taken on and, during a session here at the OpenStack Summit, […]

The annual Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), released April 26, provides visibility into the state of security and why breaches occur. The 2016 report is based on Verizon’s analysis of more than 100,000 security incidents, of which 2,260 were confirmed as data breaches. In contrast, the 2015 report received data from 79,790 security events, […]

AUSTIN, Texas—Last May, the open-source OpenStack Foundation announced that it was moving from a restricted integrated project release model to the Big Tent model. Under the Big Tent, more projects are included under the definition of OpenStack, providing a wide array of capabilities to users. Now, a year after the Big Tent was announced, leaders […]

AUSTIN, Texas–At the OpenStack Summit here, the promise and the reality of the open-source cloud platform is being discussed and debated. In a press conference at the event, executives from the OpenStack Foundation and its supporters provided some insight into how OpenStack is being used and how it has changed over the last 18 months. […]

Austin, Texas—The OpenStack Summit kicked off today here with big-name organizations, including AT&T, Volkswagen and Verizon, talking about their cloud experiences on the keynote stage. For those organizations and many others like them, the cloud—specifically OpenStack—represents a form of disruption, which was a key theme that was repeated through the keynotes. “Times of disruption are […]

As the presidential primary season continues to heat up, there are a growing number of mobile apps, but not all of them are secure. More than 50 percent of the presidential primary-related apps Symantec surveyed were leaking private user information in some way. Symantec looked at 1,217 apps and found that 654 were exposing data, […]

The OpenStack Austin Summit gets under way today in Austin, Texas, and with it comes news of continuing momentum among some big-name organizations. Verizon is announcing a major OpenStack cloud networking milestone, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory reveals it is using Red Hat’s OpenStack Platform, and Red Hat now claims to have trained 10,000 IT professionals […]

In any given week, multiple vendors issue reports and surveys on the status of the security industry and the threats that enterprises and consumers are facing. This past week was particularly busy for reports, with studies from IBM, Trustwave, Imperva, Vectra Networks, Tripwire, Beazley and Wandera, among others. Each report has its own focus, as […]