Sean Michael Kerner

HONG KONG—Barely six months ago, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden fled to Hong Kong and blew the whistle on widespread snooping. In the same city where those revelations were first disclosed, American cloud vendors attending the OpenStack Summit told eWEEK that they are not being heavily impacted by the disclosure and are remaining […]

OpenStack Summit Highlights Cloud’s Global Influence by Sean Michael Kerner The Lion Dance Welcomes Attendees to Hong Kong The traditional Lion Dance greeted attendees of the OpenStack Summit with a lively show of sight and sound. CIO of Hong Kong Likes Open Technologies Daniel Lai, government chief information officer of Hong Kong, helped kick off […]

HONG KONG–The open-source OpenStack Foundation held its Summit event here this week talking about current achievements and defining a path for the road ahead. Helping to oversee that direction is Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation. In an exclusive eWEEK video interview, Bryce details the progress discussed in Hong Kong. Part of that […]

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) 3.0 is now officially a global standard and with it comes a host of new security requirements and guidance that aim to make electronic payment infrastructure more secure. Bob Russo, Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) general manager, told eWEEK that over the last few […]

HONG KONG—Monty Taylor has the title of Distinguished Engineer at Hewlett-Packard and also holds the distinction of currently being the top open-source OpenStack cloud developer in the world, based on the volume of code commits. Speaking at the OpenStack Summit here, Taylor delivered a keynote address giving his views on why OpenStack works and why […]

At the VMworld event in August, Red Hat had the audacity to demonstrate a rival’s product to VMware for multi-cloud management. At the time, Red Hat named the product CloudForms version 2.1. This week, Red Hat is pulling CloudForms 2.1 out of preview and rebranding it as CloudForms 3.0. “Given the number of new features […]

HONG KONG—As is the case with companies all around the world, organizations in China are considering the cloud as a vehicle to serve their computing needs. In a number of sessions at the OpenStack Summit here, new statistics emerged that detail the state and direction of cloud computing, particularly OpenStack cloud computing in China. Forrester […]

HONG KONG—There are a lot of acronyms in the cloud marketplace, and according to the head of the OpenStack Foundation, none of them really matter all that much to people who really matter—the users. Speaking in a keynote session here at the OpenStack Summit, Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, explained what OpenStack […]

Open Stack Cloud Goes Global to Draw in Developers, Technologies by Sean Michael Kerner The OpenStack Foundation Has Members Around the World While the U.S is a key hotspot for OpenStack Foundation members, Europe is also well-represented. China Is a Key Location for OpenStack Developers OpenStack Foundation members are those that are part of the […]

HONG KONG—Six months ago, the world was turned upside down when then-unknown National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden turned up here in Hong Kong and disclosed what is likely the biggest intelligence leak in modern history. Snowden’s disclosure has led to a culture of fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) about U.S. tech vendors and, […]