Sean Michael Kerner

Amazon re:Invent: 10 Innovative Cloud Services Debut at the Event by Sean Michael Kerner CloudTrail Enables Cloud Auditing Andy Jassy, senior vice president of Amazon Web Services, kicked off the re:Invent conference with the announcement of CloudTrail, a service that logs all the API calls that are made to AWS resources. That logging information is […]

At the beginning of the PC era, Internet security was not much of a concern as people simply booted their machines and loaded programs without worry. In that earlier, more innocent era, the term “virus” was relegated strictly to the realm of clinical biology and only living things could actually get viruses. That all changed […]

In any given year, I see the names of a lot of different security researchers that come to prominence for one reason or another. In the last two years, one name that has risen to the top is that of a security researcher only publicly known by the alias “Pinkie Pie.” Pinkie Pie is the […]

While many see security as being a barrier to cloud adoption, the Cloud Security Alliance has a very different viewpoint. The CSA sees the cloud as being the technology platform that could extend and improve security across the IT landscape. Junaid Islam, founder and CTO of Vidder and a member of the CSA, told eWEEK […]

SUSE is expanding the support on its flagship Linux distribution from 10 years to 13 years. The enterprise Linux vendor is also expanding its partnership efforts with Microsoft as well as its ecosystem efforts to improve Linux drivers. Nils Brauckmann, president and general manager for SUSE, announced the new longer-term support for SUSE Linux Enterprise […]

Hewlett-Packard’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) is hosting its first mobile Pwn2Own hacking competition in Japan this week, and both the Google Android and Apple iOS operating systems have already been compromised. The mobile Pwn2Own event is co-located at the PacSec Conference in Tokyo and offers the promise of $300,000 in prize money to researchers who […]

The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Linux community distribution came out today with a beta of its next-generation Fedora 20 release, code-named the Heisenbug. Ironically, the name “Heisenbug” refers to a type of computer bug that is difficult to detect or fix—a type of flaw no programmer ever wants to have. Fedora Project Leader Robyn Bergeron told […]

Microsoft’s November Patch Tuesday update is now out, and once again the Internet Explorer Web browser is at the top of the list. In total, Microsoft issued eight security bulletins today, fixing 19 security vulnerabilities. Of the 19 flaws, 11 are directly related to Microsoft’s much-maligned Internet Explorer browser. One of the IE vulnerabilities is […]

Two key elements are likely to drive enterprises toward cloud application deployment: features and price. This week, Red Hat is aiming to bolster its cloud position on both counts, as it offers lower pricing for its OpenShift platform-as-a-service offerings and adds new features that make the PaaS easier to use and deploy. The OpenShift online […]

In the early days of the open-source OpenStack cloud platform’s development, Citrix Systems was a key backer adopting the platform as the basis for its own Project Olympus commercial OpenStack effort in 2011. Citrix ended up abandoning Project Olympus in 2012 in favor of the open-source Apache CloudStack platform. As it turns out, Citrix in […]