Sean Michael Kerner

IBM reported its fourth quarter and full fiscal 2016 financial results on Jan. 19, showing continued benefit from the company’s strategic initiatives. For the quarter, IBM reported revenue of $21.8 billion, for a one percent year-over-year decline. Full year revenue was reported at $79.9 billion, which is a two percent decline from fiscal 2015. Looking […]

IT infrastructure management vendor Opengear has announced new Remote Site Gateway models, adding advanced capabilities and better performance. “The new Remote Site Gateways replace the older generation of Opengear’s Remote Site products, the now EOLed ACM5000 and ACM5500 series,” Opengear CTO Marcio Saito told ServerWatch. “The new Remote Site Gateway has a faster processor, more […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced today that it is acquiring privately-held software-defined infrastructure vendor SimpliVity for $650 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in the second quarter of HPE’s fiscal year 2017. SimpliVity was started in 2009 with the goal of helping organizations build converged infrastructure that can be configured, controlled and managed […]

The market for application containers, largely led by the open-source Docker container engine, has been a hot area in recent years, at least in terms of mindshare — but how much money is there in the container market right now? A new forecast from 451 Research aims to answer that question. According to 451 Research, […]

The third quarter of 2016 was not a positive one for the world’s server vendors. IDC reported third quarter global server revenue came in at $12.5 billion, for a 7.0 percent year-over-year decline. Gartner, which tracks server revenues a slightly different way, reported a 5.8 percent decline from the third quarter of 2015. Among the […]

After six months in private beta, the Docker for AWS service is now available as a public beta. Docker for AWS was first announced at Dockercon Seattle in June as an easier way for Docker container users to run on top of Amazon Web Services (AWS). Docker for AWS provides a cluster of Docker engines […]

Building distributed server compute capability isn’t just about deploying cloud servers, it’s also about having compute at the edge of the networking, according to Cole Crawford, founder and CEO of Vapor IO. Crawford first launched Vapor in 2015 with a new data center server platform called the Vapor Chamber. Vapor makes use of the Open […]

The latest semi-annual list of the world’s top 500 supercomputers was released on November 14, showing little change at the top of the list. The China-based Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer, which first claimed the title of the world’s fastest system in June 2016, still reigns supreme. Sunway TaihuLight was built by the National Research Center of […]

Among the many areas that IBM is pushing forward with its Power architecture is in deep learning. Today IBM announced a new tool called PowerAI that aids in helping organizations learn things faster in a bid to generate advanced artificial intelligence capabilities. “PowerAI contains the major machine, deep-learning open-source software that we have optimized and […]

Canonical is out with its second major milestone operating system release with today’s debut of Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak. The new Linux milestone provides several incremental updates for server users. Of key note is the general availability of the Juju 2.0 deployment and software orchestration system. Juju first appeared back in 2011 with the Ubuntu […]

After nearly three years of development, FreeBSD 11.0 was officially released on October 10. The FreeBSD 11.0 release follows the FreeBSD 10.0 update that debuted in January 2014. “FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, sparc64, armv6, and aarch64 architectures,” Glen Barber, Release Engineering Lead for FreeBSD 11.0, wrote in his […]

Docker founder Solomon Hykes officially announced the debut of the open-source Infrakit toolkit this week, in a bid to further enable DevOps to actually work. The Docker Engine and dockerfiles have helped usher in a new container revolution in how applications are packaged and run. Now as container workloads increasingly enter into full-scale production deployments, […]