Sean Michael Kerner

CHICAGO – Just over a year ago, Solomon Hykes created the open-source Docker project. Since then Docker has exploded in both popularity and hype. In a keynote session at the LinuxCon conference, Hykes explained why the hype is both a blessing and a curse. Hykes asked the audience if they had heard of Docker and […]

Server and cloud administrators have long had multiple virtualization options to choose from. In 2014, Docker container virtualization has emerged as yet another choice and according to research from IBM, it could well be the best choice in terms of performance. In the traditional hypervisor Virtual Machine (VM) approach that is used by VMware’s ESX […]

The Tianhe-2 first jumped onto the world’s supercomputing stage a year ago, taking the crown of world’s most powerful computer. At the time, the Tianhe-2 was rated with a performance of 33.86 petaflops. One full year later and Tianhe-2’s performance numbers are unchanged and it still holds down the top spot as the world’s most […]

Getting visibility into what’s going on in virtual servers is no easy task for server administrators, which is where VMware’s Log Insight product line comes into play. Log Insight first debuted in June of 2013 and is now being updated to version 2. Bill Roth, Group Product Marketing Manager for Log Insight at VMware, explained […]

The promise of the cloud is that it enables organizations to lower their capital expenditures and only pay for what they need. The reality of the cloud however is that there’s still hardware needed to run the cloud. Getting hardware to be “cloud-enabled” is often no easy task, but it’s a task that startup Nebula […]

Server virtualization for the last decade has been dominated by the concept of virtual machine hypervisors of the type used by VMware ESX and others. There is another form of virtualization known as container-based virtualization that is now rising in popularity, thanks in no small part to the open-source Docker project and its commercial backer, […]

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is updating its HP-UX Unix operating system today with a new update and is also announcing new HP NonStop server platforms. The new Unix operating system update is technically identified as HP-UX 11i v3 Update 13 . HP-UX 11i v3 first debuted back in February of 2007 and has been receiving a steady […]

Two of the world’s most widely deployed web servers have both recently been updated to fix security vulnerabilities. The open-source Apache HTTP Server is being updated to version 2.4.9 to fix two separate security issues, both of which carry the highest possible exploitability score from the National Vulnerability Database. The first issue is identified as […]

For much of the Linux operating system’s history, patching a kernel has been a process that has typically involved downtime. In 2014, that’s no longer the case as there are now at least three distinct efforts that offer the promise of zero-downtime kernel patching to Linux servers. The most recent entrant into the zero-downtime patching […]

After a week of speculation and reports that IBM was selling its server business to Lenovo, official confirmation of the deal came this morning: IBM is getting out of the low-end x86 server business. IBM’s System x, BladeCenter and Flex System blade servers and switches, x86-based Flex integrated systems, NeXtScale and iDataPlex servers portfolios are […]

The open-source FreeBSD 10 operating system is now available for server administrators, providing new performance, virtualization and storage features. The FreeBSD 10 release is the first major version jump for the open-source server operating systems since January of 2012 when FreeBSD 9.0 was officially released.The FreeBSD Project is one of the earliest open source operating […]

The global market for servers continues to experience revenue decreases, even as the volume of servers shipping is rising. Both Gartner and IDC released their respective third quarter 2013 (3Q13) worldwide server reports this week, showing which areas of the server market are growing and which ones are in decline. IDC reported that the global […]