Sean Michael Kerner

Rackspace has been in the OpenStack cloud business since day one, being one of the original creators of the open source cloud effort along with NASA. Much of the emphasis in the past for Rackspace was on both private and public cloud offerings, operated from within Rackspace’s own data center, but that is now changing. […]

For much of its 10 year history, the financial numbers behind Amazon’s Web Services (AWS), the defining web service of the cloud era, have been shrouded in secrecy. That changed in April 2015, when for the first time Amazon publicly disclosedits cloud earnings. Ever since the stratospheric growth of AWS has continued to accelerate. In […]

For over a decade, the running joke in the Linux community was that whatever year you were in, that was the year of the Linux desktop. For even longer than that, Microsoft Windows has been the arch-nemesis of everything that Linux is and represents. Yet somehow, someway karma has twisted fate such that now in […]

The annual Linux Foundation collaboration summit kicked off today with the promise of improving the state of open source software development. The opening keynote of the event was delivered by Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, who advocated for the idea of a Big Tent approach to open source that is more inclusive. […]

As open source usage grows throughout all sectors of IT, it is becoming increasingly important for organizations to have some visibility into what they are using. Black Duck Software has multiple tools in its portfolio, including Hub for finding and fixing open source vulnerabilities, Protex for identifying open source code usage, and Code Center for […]

Rackspace is positioning itself for growth in 2016 and that involves making sure resources are being put into the right areas of the company. Rackspace reported its fourth quarter and full year 2015 fiscal results on February 16, showing areas of growth as the company continues to expand its focus to supporting multiple types of […]

While Amazon’s core business remains its consumer sales, the cloud was a major area of growth in 2015. Amazon reported its fourth quarter and full-year fiscal 2015 financial results on January 28, once again showing the strong impact of Amazon Web Services. For the quarter, Amazon reported net sales of $35.7 billion, for a 22 […]

IBM is one of the biggest technology companies in the world and it’s in the process of a multi-year transformation to re-make itself for a new era of cloud and IT services. Part of IBM’s transformation success was revealed during the company’s fourth quarter and full year 2015 earnings results, which were reported on January […]

The year 2015 was the busiest year yet for open source OpenStack cloud technologies, with technology and business development effort in full swing. There likely is no slowdown in sight as 2016 starts and organizations embrace increasingly mature open source technologies to enable cloud application and infrastructure deployment efforts. On the infrastructure front, there were […]

The market for OpenStack services and products will likely continue to be very competitive in 2016, as vendors try and grab a slice of the cloud infrastructure pie. Among the many vendors in the space is Solinea, which is gearing up for a big product launch in 2016 that will complement the company’s existing services […]