Sean Michael Kerner

There are a lot of different reasons why organization choose to leverage the cloud, including disaster recover and resiliency. Disaster recovery is a business that IBM knows well and is now expanding in the cloud era with a new cloud resiliency center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. IBM’s entire Research Triangle Park campus covers […]

Larry Ellison announced on September 18 that he was stepping down as CEO of Oracle, but little will actually change at the company he has led for four decades. Ellison is now Oracle’s Chairman of the Board and CTO, while Mark Hurd and Safra Katz now jointly hold the CEO role. The management shift was […]

Red Hat’s JBoss developer tools division has always focused on enterprise development, but hasn’t always been focused on mobile. Today that will start to change as Red Hat announced its intention to acquire mobile development vendor FeedHenry for $82 million in cash. The deal is set to close in the third quarter of Red Hat’s […]

Developers today more often then not require multiple tools to build for desktop and mobile web applications. It’s a challenge that Mozilla is aiming to solve with a new cross-platform web development add-on. The new Firefox Tools Adaptor will now enable a developer to leverage the developer tools in Firefox for applications that will run […]

The open source Docker container virtualization project got started in March of 2013 and has since grown to become one of the most talked about virtualization technologies in the industry. Docker was started by Solomon Hykes, while Hykes was running a PaaS company known at the time as dotCloud. The dotCloud business has since been […]

The Linux Foundation’s Allseen Alliance has a new member today. Sony has announced that it is joining AllSeen in a bid to bolster its Internet of Things (IoT) presence. The AllSeen project got started in December of 2013 as an effort to build an open standards based approach to IoT. The big initial core code […]

Since the beginning of the Web era, the simple image tag has defined the use of nearly all static images. Google’s new Chrome 38 beta browser will change that with the introduction of a new element known as “picture,” which could usher in a new era of responsive design. The basic idea behind the concept […]

Google is out this week with its biggest Chrome browser update in years. The Chrome 37 release now provides a supported build for Windows 64-bit systems and also provides the largest number of security fixes yet seen from Google. Since Chrome was first released by Google back in 2008, support on Windows has been limited […]

VMware is a company that is aiming to dominate all aspects of computing, from the desktop to the cloud and the servers in-between. That’s the message delivered by VMware executives during the second day keynotes at the VMworld conference. Sanjay Poonen, executive vice-president and general manager of end-user computing at VMware, explained during his keynote […]

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger kicked off his company’s VMworld 2014 conference with a message – Be Brave. Gelsinger’s message was intended for attendees but is also a message that is reflective of his company’s approach to the rapidly evolving Software Defined Data Center landscape. During his VMworld keynote address, Gelsinger noted that the biggest risk […]