Sean Michael Kerner

Red Hat today is announcing the OpenShift Marketplace in an effort to help grow its market share in the emerging cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) space. OpenShift is Red Hat’s PaaS platform. First introduced back in 2011, it was initially based on technology Red Hat acquired from technology vendor Makara in 2010. The basic idea behind the […]

The biggest news in the IT security world this week is the Heartbleed vulnerability that was first publicly disclosed on April 7. It’s a flaw that impacts hundreds of millions of users because it’s embedded within OpenSSL, an open-source cryptographic library used for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption on Websites. Not to diminish the importance […]

The Heartbleed encryption vulnerability is perhaps the most serious Internet security flaw in recent memory, affecting hundreds of millions of people. The Heartbleed flaw is found within OpenSSL, an open-source cryptographic library used for the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which is widely deployed on Linux servers and Internet infrastructure around the world. What is perhaps […]

VeriSign released its quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) on April 9, once again showing a steady rise in the total number of top-level domains (TLDs) on the Internet. The fourth-quarter DNIB reported that there are now 271 million domains registered across all TLDs. TLDs include the popular .com and .net domains, both of which […]

While some vendors have whitewashed the term cloud, Verizon Terremark is not one of them. Verizon Terremark offers managed hosting, co-location servers as well as cloud servers as part of its technology services portfolio. Helping to lead the technical direction for Verizon Terremark’s cloud efforts is Chief Technology Officer John Considine. In a video interview […]

WordPress blogs around the world began to receive an automatic security update late on April 8 to fix security vulnerabilities. The WordPress 3.8.2 and 3.7.2 updates each provide five security fixes, as well as multiple non-security bug updates. The open-source WordPress content management system is widely deployed around the world and is used to power […]

Microsoft today released its April Patch Tuesday update, providing four security bulletins, including the final updates for the Windows XP operating system. Among the most critical bulletins is MS14-017, which details three remote code execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word and Office applications. Microsoft first became aware of one of the issues, identified as CVE-2014-1761, on […]

The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is at the foundation of all Web based communications, and when security flaws are found, immediate fixes are required. On April 7, the open-source OpenSSL project issued an advisory regarding a critical vulnerability that could potentially leave millions of users at risk. The flaw—identified as CVE-2014-0160 and called “TLS heartbeat […]

Brendan Eich was a key figure in the foundation of Mozilla, and his departure will be questioned and felt for a long time. Eich was named CEO of Mozilla March 24 but resigned April 3 after backlash over a 2008 contribution made in support of a California proposition to ban same-sex marriages. When Eich was […]

Microsoft’s Windows XP dies on April 8, and I will not be among those who mourn its loss. The sad part about the death of XP is that those who still run it might not even realize that their operating system is now dead. After 12 years, Microsoft is no longer going to be providing […]

Interop Show Expands Beyond Networking to Cloud Computing, Security by Sean Michael Kerner Docker CEO Takes Aim at Virtualization At the Cloud Connect Summit, Docker CEO Ben Golub explained his company’s container vision for application virtualization. IDC Forecasts $7 Billion in Combined 10/40 GbE Port Revenue During IDC’s annual Interop breakfast meeting, the analyst firm […]

Apple updated its Safari Web browser this week, thanks in no small part to the efforts of Google. The Safari 7.0.3 and 6.1.3 browsers were both released by Apple on April 1 for Mac OS X users. In total, the browser updates provide fixes for 27 vulnerabilities, with the Google Chrome Security Team reporting 16 […]