Sean Michael Kerner

Kubernetes startup vendor Heptio announced the launch of its latest open-source project on Oct. 31, with the debut of the Contour project. “Contour is an Ingress controller for Kubernetes that works by deploying the Envoy proxy as a reverse proxy and load balancer,” the Contour GitHub project page states. “Unlike other Ingress controllers, Contour supports […]

The big news at the DockerCon EU 17 conference that ran from Oct. 16-19 was the surprise announcement that Docker Inc would be supporting the Kubernetes container orchestration platform in a future release. The support of Kubernetes however is not coming at the expense of Docker’s own Swarm container orchestration platform, which will continue to […]

Developers and organizations around the world rushed to fix the Y2K bug nearly 20 years ago as the calendar rolled over to the new millennium. There is also a similar bug that is resident in Unix/Linux systems known as the Year 2038 bug. The latest vendor to fix its software for the 2038 bug is […]

While the first quarter of 2017 was not a particularly good one for the global server market, it’s a trend that did not continue into the second quarter. According to both IDC and Gartner, the worldwide server market grew in the second quarter of 2017. IDC reported server market revenue grew by 6.3 percent to […]

Though Oracle has laid off many of its Solaris and SPARC employees, the company is continuing to push forward with new developments. On Sept. 18th, Oracle announced its M8 SPARC silicon platform, re-committing to the the RISC-based platform it gained via the acquisition of Sun Microsystems. The M8 is a 32-core chip that supports up […]

LOS ANGELES — While Linus Torvalds is the most famous Linux kernel developer, he’s just one of many that help to lead the way forward. In a panel session at the Open Source Summit in Los Angeles, a panel of leading Linux kernel developers discussed their views on the current state of Linux kernel development. […]

LOS ANGELES — IBM is one of the founding members of the Linux Foundation and has long used Linux Foundation events as the place to announce new Linux products and services. At the Open Source Summit here on Sept. 12, IBM announced a new Linux mainframe that will provide more power and security for container […]

The latest release of the OpenStack cloud platform landed on Aug. 30 with the debut of OpenStack Pike. While there are many incremental feature improvements in Pike, there is at least one key feature noteworthy in that it hasn’t been removed. That feature is Amazon Web Services (AWS) API compatibility. Though the OpenStack Foundation and […]

Quantum Computing might well represent the next evolution of compute, though right now there aren’t clear definitions for some of the core elements of the emerging technology. A new effort formally announced by the IEEE Standards Association on Aug.23 aims to bring clarity to Quantum Computing with an official project to provide standard definitions for […]

Oracle first debuted its Exadata engineered systems in 2008 with the promise of providing the fastest and most powerful hardware possible to run the Oracle database. Oracle is now extending the power of its latest generation of Exadata engineered systems to Oracle Cloud users. The promise of using a bare-metal Exadata system is improved performance […]

Oracle has released the latest update of its Oracle Linux operating system, providing organizations with a freely-available enterprise Linux operating system. Oracle Linux 7 Update 4 is based on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 release that first debuted on August 1. Oracle has been building its own Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise […]

Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda launched Heptio in November 2016 with the promise of making Kubernetes friendlier. When Heptio debuted, details on precisely how the company would be making Kubernetes easier were sparse, but in the months since, multiple efforts have emerged. The most recent pair of Kubernetes simplification efforts from Heptio are the open-source […]