Sean Michael Kerner

In the beginning of the open source OpenStack cloud effort, there were two projects – Nova Compute and Swift Storage. Swift is an integrated part of most OpenStack distributions but it is also the focus for a standalone company called SwiftStack, which was founded by Joe Arnold. In a video interview, Arnold discusses the current […]

While many organizations today are considering a move to the cloud, startup Platform9 is offering an innovative approach to enable organizations to use their on-premises infrastructure as a private cloud deployment. Platform9 first emerged from stealth mode in August of 2014 and has been steadily growing ever since. In a video interview, Sirish Raghuram, co-founder […]

When Jim Whitehurst set out to write his book The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance, he wasn’t looking to define the open-source movement in the same way that Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar defined open-source. Rather than define open-source as a development methodology, Whitehurst’s focus is on open-source principles as applied to […]

BOSTON – Jim Whitehurst, the CEO of Red Hat, took the stage at his company’s Red Hat Summit with a key message: open innovations takes many forms and it takes work. “In a world where information is the source of value creation, that means that innovation is determining value,” Whitehurst said. Whitehurst stressed that in […]

Few if any companies in the world today are as deeply involved in open source work as tech giant Intel. Helping to lead Intel’s open source efforts is Imad Sousou, VP in Intel’s Software and Services Group and GM of the Intel Open Source Technology Center In a video interview, Sousou explains why Intel participates […]

HP announced is second quarter fiscal 2015 earnings on May 21, with company executives enthusiastic about the company’s upcoming split, and continued prospects in the cloud. For the quarter, HP reported net revenue of $25.5 billion for a year-over-year decline of 7 percent. Net earnings were were reported at $1.0 billion for a 21 percent […]

VANCOUVER, BC – OpenStack’s Nova compute project originally began as the Nebula project at NASA. At the OpenStack conference here, Jonathan Chiang, IT Chief Engineer at NASA JPL detailed how the space agency is now using OpenStack in its effort to land humans on Mars. “NASA is a place where we dare mighty things,” Chiang […]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – OpenStack is supported by the largest technology vendors in the world and, as it turns out, by the world’s largest retailer as well: Walmart. At the OpenStack Summit here, Amandeep Singh Juneja Senior. Director, Cloud Engineering and Operations, WalmartLabs detailed Walmart’s use of open-source cloud technology. “We’re a retailer and we’re […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched the cloud revolution back in 2006, but for the better part of the last nine years, no one outside of Amazon knew how much money AWS made. Now we know. Amazon’s first quarter 2015 earnings call on April 23, for the first time broke out results to provide visibility into […]

SAN FRANCISCO. When it comes to the cloud, transparency and control are the keys to security. That’s the message coming from Scott Charney, Corporate Vice-President of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing, during a keynote at the RSA security conference here. “As people move to the cloud, how much transparency do they get into what is going on?” […]