Sean Michael Kerner

The open-source Docker container virtualization project received a number of milestone updates this week with new releases of Docker Engine 1.6, Docker Registry 2.0 and Compose 1.2.0. The Docker Registry is the code that enables the Docker Hub, which is a repository of Docker apps. Scott Johnston, SVP of Product, Docker, Inc, told ServerWatch that […]

In May 2014, HP and Foxconn announced a joint venture to build a new class of cloud servers. Today at the Open Compute Summit, HP and Foxconn publicly displayed the first fruits of the venture in the form of the new Cloudline server product family. The Cloudline product family includes three new servers. At the […]

There is once again reason to be somewhat optimistic about the global server market, as both IDC and Gartner are reporting growth for vendors in the fourth quarter of 2014. IDC is reporting revenue for the global server market in the fourth quarter of 2014 (4Q14) came in at $14.5 billion, representing 1.9 percent year-over-year […]

Mirantis today released its OpenStack 6.0 cloud platform, providing new capabilities for cloud server administrators to rapidly deploy clouds with new services. Among the key enhancements are improvements to Mirantis’ Fuel system for plugin deployment. Mirantis is one of the leading vendors in the OpenStack market and closed a $100 million investment round in October. […]

What’s next for Fedora Linux is the Fedora 21 release, which arrives today after a longer than expected wait. Fedora 21 is the product of a new effort known as Fedora Next that aims to reshape and rethink how the community Linux distribution is built and deployed. With Fedora 21, instead of a single monolithic […]

The Tianhe-2 supercomputer has retained its crown as the world’s most powerful system for the fourth consecutive time in the Top500 supercomputing rankings. Tianhe-2 was built by China’s National University of Defense Technology and first landed on the Top500 supercomputer list in June of 2013. At that time, Tianhe-2’s performance was rated at 33.86 petaflops. […]

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has been talking about its Moonshot effort since 2011 as an approach to better enable high-density scale-out data center server workloads. Initially, Moonshot was all about ARM but has since expanded to Intel x86 as well. Today, HP announced new Moonshot solutions for specific use-cases that include virtual application delivery, video transcoding and […]

Red Hat is out today with the latest version of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL) platform, and the company is now also providing support for users of the newer Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to run RHEL 6 apps in a container. RHEL 6.6 is the latest iteration of the RHEL 6 platform […]

Five years on, VCE continues to build out new systems, even as the new need for converged compute, storage and networking grows. The Virtual Computing Alliance (VCE) was founded by tech giants VMware, Cisco and EMC back in 2009 as a way to build, package and deliver converged server infrastructure. The cornerstone of VCE’s portfolio […]

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has been talking about its Moonshot project since November of 2011 as an effort to build out high-density data center servers. Back in 2011, Moonshot was all about ARM Cortex processors, powered by Calxeda. Calxeda no longer exists, but the ARM dream is still alive. While the initial Calxeda ARM-based Moonshot servers were […]

Linux vendor Red Hat is very optimistic about its future growth prospects in the cloud and more specifically with container technology. Red Hat reported its second quarter fiscal 2015 financial results late Thursday, showing continued growth. For the quarter, Red Hat reported revenue of $446 million for a 19 percent year-over-year gain. Net income was […]

Cisco today is announcing a major overhaul of its Unified Computing System (UCS) server lineup. In addition to Intel Xeon chip updates for its B and C class systems, Cisco is adding the new M-Series for the cloud and a UCS mini portfolio for edge-of-network applications. Todd Brannon, Cisco UCS director of product management, told […]