Sean Michael Kerner

Ubuntu developers are closing in on the next major release, with the Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf set to debut on October 22. Ubuntu 15.10 is in many respects an incremental release ahead of the 16.04 Long Term Support release in 2016. Among the key innovations in 15.10 is wider use of the Snappy technology for […]

VMware is taking another full step toward embracing containers with a preview of vSphere Integrated Containers. The new container initiative comes alongside a long list of new and updated VMware efforts being announced today at the company’s VMworld conference in San Francisco. VMware vSphere Integrated Containers build on multiple complementary efforts that VMware has been […]

How much money does a privately-held OpenStack services vendor need? That’s a question  Mirantis is figuring out as it continues to raise large sums of money to fuel its efforts and help capitalize on the market opportunity. Mirantis announced a new $100 million round of funding on August 24 led by Intel Capital, as well […]

Red Hat today is announcing the general availability of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 (RHEL) milestone. RHEL 6.7 has been in beta deployments since May and is the seventh update to RHEL 6 since the server operating system first debuted in November of 2010. While Red Hat’s leading edge of enterprise Linux is now […]

IBM reported its second quarter fiscal 2015 revenues on July 20, showing continued growth in the cloud segment of its business. IBM reported quarterly revenue of $20.8 billion, for a decline of 13.5 percent year-over-year. Net income was reported at $3.4 billion, for a decline of 16.6 percent year-over-year. IBM’s server hardware business is one […]

Ubuntu Linux is widely deployed on desktops, servers and clouds around the world, and now it’s coming to Intel’s Compute Stick platform as well. The Intel Compute Stick is a small form factor device, powered by a quad-core Intel Atom processor, that includes a USB port and a micro-SD card slot. The promise of the […]

This week was a big week for Docker news with the announcement of the Open Container Project as well as new innovations from Docker Inc on its core Docker efforts. Starting with the new Docker engine 1.7 release, there are now experimental features for users to test out. The first such experimental feature is the […]

BOSTON – One of the most popular sessions at any Red Hat Summit is the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Roadmap session, and the 2015 event held here is no exception. Denise Dumas, Vice President, Operating System Platform at Red Hat, detailed her company’s Linux server plans for the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 cycle, […]

In the world of open-source projects, Imad Sousou, General Manager of Intel’s Open Source Technology Center, sees Linux and OpenStack as the two largest projects. Intel is a leading contributor to both projects and is more aware than most of the differences and similarities in the two communities. Sousou also sits on the Board of […]

The server numbers for the first quarter of 2015 from analyst firms IDC and Gartner are now available and both firms are reporting growth. IDC is reporting that for the first quarter 2015, global server revenues hit $12.8 billion for a 17.2 percent year-over-year gain. Gartner reported that revenue grew by 17.9 percent to $13.4 […]

VANCOUVER, BC – No surprise here, Red Hat, a leading contributor and OpenStack vendor, is seeing strong demand for OpenStack cloud technology. Red Hat released a new study and detailed a new cloud offering today at the OpenStack Summit. The Red Hat-sponsored OpenStack enterprise adoption survey had 310 respondents and found that 75 percent are […]

VMware is expanding its embrace of Linux containers in a big way today with the launch of a pair of efforts that aim to enable a new era of cloud-native applications. Linux containers and most notably the Docker container ecosystem have emerged in the last two years to become a highly agile way to build […]