Sean Michael Kerner

Few technologies in the virtualization space are as hyped as Docker containers are today. Many companies have made promises about products and services for Docker, including cloud giant Amazon, and now Amazon is making good on its promise. Amazon first announced the EC2 Container Service (ECS) in November 2014 at its re:invent conference in Las […]

The open source Cloud Foundry Foundation is growing today with the addition of OpenStack vendor Mirantis to its membership roster. The move is a very interesting one for many reasons. Cloud Foundry has emerged in recent years to become a leading Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) platform. The project which was originally started as an open source effort […]

The Internet of Things (IoT) offers the promise of billions of connected devices around the world, enabling a new era of connectivity and device control. IoT also represents a new opportunity for IT vendors to grow, which is why IBM is now set to invest heavily. IBM announced today a new four year effort to […]

Google is building a next generation interface for its Chrome OS operating system, which powers Chromebook laptop computers. Google is now offering users in its beta-channel the opportunity to preview features that are currently in development for Chrome OS, including a new launcher and a new look to the overall system. “The new launcher is […]

At the Open Compute Project Summit this week, startup Vapor announced a new open-source specification designed to help manage data center environments. The new technology is the Open DCRE (Data Center Runtime Environment) which is an open source platform for data center workload automation. Open DCRE can be used to monitor environmental characteristics and power […]

VMware is being sued in a new legal action over alleged violations of GPL (GNU Public License) open-source licensed code from the Linux kernel. The legal action is being served in the district court of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany and is backed by the Software Freedom Conservancy in support of leading Linux kernel software developer […]

Google is out with Chrome 41, providing users with new security updates, bug fixes and features for the widely used browser. On the features side, Chrome 41 now supports a number of new web technologies, including JavaScript Template Literals. In a blog Google software engineer Erik Arvidsson explained that Template Literals adds string formatting into […]

Breaking up is hard to do, and in Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) case, somewhat costly too. HP announced its first quarter fiscal 2015 financial results this week, sharing details on its announced strategy to separate into two companies. When the separation is complete HP Enterprise will focus on enterprise software, hardware and services while HP Inc will […]

With the appointment of Sam Ramji as CEO, the open source Cloud Foundry Foundation has its first leader. The Cloud Foundry Foundation was officially launched on December 9, with the Linux Foundation running the back-end operations. At the time of the Cloud Foundry Foundation’s launch, Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation, noted that […]

The open-source OpenStack cloud platform includes multiple projects that can be used to enable different capabilities in the cloud. In the OpenStack Icehouse milestone release, which debuted in April 2014, a key addition was the Trove database project, which enables the use of multiple databases in an OpenStack cloud deployment. Trove continued to be enhanced […]