Sean Michael Kerner

Hosting vendor GoDaddy first debuted its own OpenStack-powered cloud service in March 2016, with high hopes of success. Those hopes have been dashed, as GoDaddy sent out notices to its customers this week advising them that the service will be shut down. The GoDaddy Cloud Servers product was intended to be an easy on-ramp to […]

Linux creator Linus Torvalds officially released the Linux 4.12 kernel on July 2, providing improved capabilities that will help improve the scalability and performance of Linux operating systems. The 4.12 kernel is the third major Linux kernel release of 2017, and it follows the most recent April 30th Linux 4.11 kernel release. In his 4.12 […]

Docker Inc has been busy the first two weeks of June with a series of initiatives aimed to help grow the company’s business opportunities. On June 5, Docker announced that its Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) was validated as an approved technology for use in the United Kingdom (UK) G-Cloud 9 framework. The UK Government’s Crown […]

VMware reported its first quarter fiscal 2018 financial results on June 1, showing continued growth and optimism as new services are set to debut later in the year. For the quarter, VMware reported revenue of $1.74 billion for a nine percent year-over-year gain. Net income was reported at $232 million, up from $161 million in […]

When container vendor CoreOS first got started, among its primary innovations was the Fleet cluster management system. Now in 2017, Fleet is on its way out, as CoreOS has standardized on Kubernetes as the basis for its commercial aspirations with the Tectonic platform. At the core of Fleet is the open-source etcd distributed key-value store […]

Joe Beda and Craig McLuckie started Heptio in November 2016 with the basic idea of making Kubernetes friendly. Heptio is now aiming to deliver on that promise by helping to launch the Ksonnet effort that aims to simplify Kubernetes configurations. Beda and McLuckie are well known in the Kubernertes community, as they were part of […]

At the IO 17 conference on May 17, Google announced server innovations that will provide new power for machine learning in the cloud. The second-generation Cloud Tensor Processing Units (TPU) are purpose-built hardware that enables massive computations needed for machine learning at scale. Tensorflow, an open-source project for machine learning that Google created, will be […]

The OpenStack Pike release is currently scheduled to arrive September 1, and it will bring many new feature and improvements. In a session at the OpenStack Summit in Boston, the top 8 new features that will be in OpenStack Pike were revealed. They include: 1. Extend Volume While Attached Pete Chadwick, director of product management […]

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst doesn’t think that defining prescriptive management plans is necessarily the right way to build and deliver innovation. In his keynote at the Red Hat Summit, Whitehurst argued what’s more important than planning is to have the structure and culture in place to iterate rapidly. “As the world moves faster and […]

For a time, Verizon’s corporate strategy involved becoming a major player in the data center and cloud hosting markets. That strategy is no longer in place in 2017. Verizon announced today that it has entered into an agreement with IBM to sell its cloud and managed hosting services. Financial terms of the deal have not […]

The Red Hat Summit got underway today, highlighted by a new partnership with Amazon for OpenShift that doesn’t involve the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) as well as some bold pronouncements about competitors in the cloud market. “When Linux first started it really was a commodity play,” Paul Cormier, President of product and technology at […]

Ubuntu 12.04 dies today, but not for everyone. The Ubuntu 12.04 Long Term Support release first debuted in April 2012 and has been supported for five years. “The five year support window ends on April 28,” Dustin Kirkland, Ubuntu product and Strategy lead at Canonical, told ServerWatch. Canonical has already announced it will be providing […]