Sean Michael Kerner

The global server market grew both in terms of revenue and units shipped in 2015, according to the latest figures from analyst firms IDC and Gartner. For the fourth quarter of 2015, IDC reported that worldwide server market revenue came in at $15.3 billion, for a 5.2 percent year-over-year gain. For all of 2015, IDC […]

OpenStack vendor Mirantis today is announcing a new deal that will bring OpenStack Public cloud technology to the Middle East and Africa (MEA). Mirantis is partnering with the Saudi Telecom Company (STC), which is the largest telecom provider in MEA, to provide services to over 100 million customers across nine countries. The partnership will see […]

When most people think about mainframes, they tend to think about big iron that is very stable, though not particularly agile or flexible. That’s a myth IBM is now aiming to dispel through the rapid pace of both hardware and software innovation in its LinuxONE class of mainframes. The LinuxONE mainframe was first announced in […]

The year 2015 was the busiest year yet for open source OpenStack cloud technologies, with technology and business development effort in full swing. There likely is no slowdown in sight as 2016 starts and organizations embrace increasingly mature open source technologies to enable cloud application and infrastructure deployment efforts. On the infrastructure front, there were […]

While interest in containers has grown significantly in the last two years, it’s important to remember that containers as a technology concept have been around for many years. In Linux, there are LXC (Linux Containers); in Solaris Unix, there are Zones; and in FreeBSD, there is the concept of Jails. During my panel, a member […]

The server market is still growing, albeit not in all server classes, according to the latest third quarter 2015 server revenue reports from analyst firms Gartner and IDC. According to IDC, third quarter global server revenue came in at $13.4 billion, for a 5.1 percent year-over-year gain. Gartner reported global server revenues at $13.5 billion, […]

Mirantis has emerged over the last few years to become on of the world’s leading OpenStack vendors. At the core of Mirantis’ own effort has long been its FUEL project which provides installation, deployment and management capabilities that are needed to deploy an OpenStack cloud. Mirantis first publicly released the FUEL library as an open-source […]

BARCELONA, Spain–Among the many big name IT vendors that support Docker containers is Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which is now announcing new services and products to support and enable container use. In a video interview at the DockerCon EU conference here, Omri Gazitt, vice president of products and services for HP Helion at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, […]

OpenStack is finding its way into carriers and enterprise deployments around the world, but what about developers? At the recent OpenStack Summit in Tokyo, Japan, developers gathered to discuss the Mitaka release of OpenStack, set to debut in 2016. One of the themes that is emerging in OpenStack is the idea of focusing on a […]

IBM is continuing to move forward in its process of corporate transformation. Big Blue reported its third quarter fiscal 2015 revenue on October 19, showing both challenges and opportunities going forward. For the quarter, revenue was reported at $19.3 billion, for a 14 percent year-over-year decline. Net income was reported at $3.0 billion, for a […]

At the Linuxcon EU event this week, Linux creator Linus Torvalds sat down with his longtime friend, Intel’s Chief Linux and Open-Source technologist, Dirk Hohndel, to discuss the state of Linux. When asked about security, Torvalds said that he would like to see even more automated testing as there are simply too many places for […]

The Linux Foundation today is announcing a new Real-Time Linux Collaborative Project, though it’s important to first understand and realize that efforts to develop Real-Time Linux have been ongoing for over a decade. Back in October of 2004, MontaVista Linux (now owned by Cavium) launched its Real-Time Linux effort, which saw multiple kernel developments land […]