Sean Michael Kerner

In the world of cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technologies, there are now two primary open-source competitors, the Red Hat backed OpenShift and the Pivotal backed CloudFoundry. The CloudFoundry PaaS project was officially launched by VMware back in 2011. In 2012, then VMware CTO stated that his vision was for CloudFoundry to be, “the Linux of the […]

Here’s a question for the OpenStack cloud platform: is it software built for a select few or is it built to meet the needs of everyone? In a video interview, Jonathan Bryce, executive director, and Mark Collier, Chief Operating Officer of the OpenStack Foundation, discuss how OpenStack is evolving to meet multiple layers of needs. […]

Convirture is now out with a new backup solution for OpenStack cloud environments using the KVM hypervisor. The software-based Convirture Backup offers the promise of a policy-based, automated backup system for OpenStack cloud users. OpenStack itself has multiple storage projects that Convirture can plug into. Arsalan Farooq, CEO of Convirture explained to Datamation that backup […]

SwiftStack, one of the lead contributors to the open-source Swift OpenStack storage project, this week announced that it has raised a new Series B $16 million round of funding. Total funding for SwiftStack now stands at $23.6 million. Joe Arnold, CEO of SwiftStack told Datamation that the new funding will used to scale up sales […]

VeriSign holds a unique place in the infrastructure of the Internet, managing root DNS functions and working as the custodian of the .com and .net domain names. Over the course of 2014, hundreds of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) have entered the Internet, which is now confusing the marketplace, according to VeriSign’s CEO. James […]

IBM reported its third quarter fiscal 2014 financial results on October 20 and CEO Ginni Rometty isn’t too happy about the numbers. IBM’s results come on the heels of the company’s divestiture of its silicon fabrication capabilities to Global Foundries, in a deal that will cost IBM $1.5 billion. For the quarter, IBM reported revenue […]

Intel reported its third quarter fiscal 2014 earnings on October 14, showing gains in both its PC and Data Center business units. Third quarter revenue was reported at $14.6 billion for an eight percent year-over-year gain. Net Income was reported at $3.3 billion for a 12 percent year-over-year gain. Intel’s Data Center Group had a […]

IBM is aiming to re-invent itself in a new hardware era where it no longer sells x86 based servers. IBM sold off its x86 server business to Lenovo in a $2.3 billion deal that officially closed on October 1. Doug Balog is the General Manager of Power Systems within IBM’s System and Technology Group and […]

Hewlett-Packard (HP) today officially announced its intention to become two separate companies. The move comes as the latest step in CEO Meg Whitman’s multi-year effort to restructure HP and return the tech giant to its former glory. The HP split is currently set to be complete by the end of HP’s fiscal 2015. The split […]

The cloud shouldn’t just be a bunch of independant siloed bastions of computer power, it should be a federated utility. That’s the idea behind the Cisco Intercloud initiative, which is being expanded this week. Cisco has been talking about Intercloud since January, when it first discussed the concept of the Intercloud router as a gateway […]