Sean Michael Kerner

The PC business is far from dead. That’s the big message coming from HP during its third quarter fiscal 2014 earning call. HP reported third quarter 2014 net revenue of $27.6 billion for a one percent year over year gain. Part of HP’s success in the quarter came from growth in its Personal Systems business […]

CHICAGO – Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation, talks about Linux a lot. During his keynote at the LinuxCon USA event here, Zemlin noted that it’s often difficult for him to come up with new material for talking about the state of Linux at this point. Every year at LinuxCon, Zemlin delivers […]

The cloud business has often seemed like a race to the bottom in terms of pricing, with Amazon and Google constantly aiming to make cloud computing resources cheaper. It’s a race that Rackspace doesn’t want to win — instead Rackspace is aiming to find a niche in the managed cloud services market. It’s a market […]

The cloud offers the promise of elastic infrastructure that can scale on demand and delivers a service based approach to technology consumption. It’s a model that many enterprises are now embracing and now it’s a model the State of California is using, too. The State of California today announced its CalCloud initiative, which is being […]

Firefox 31 is now generally available, providing users of Mozilla’s open-source web browser with multiple patches to improve security. For developers, the new release also provides new tools to help accelerate web application development. Firefox 31 first entered beta development on June 12 and follows Mozilla’s Firefox 30 browser, which was released on June 10. […]

IBM reported its second quarter fiscal 2014 financial results on July 17, once again showing year-over-year declines in its hardware related business units. For the quarter, IBM reported revenue of $24.4 billion, which is a one percent year-over-year decline. Net income was reported at $4.1 billion for a 28 percent year-over-year gain. “We’re continuing to […]

Google is out with a new version of its Chrome web browser, providing users with new features and security fixes for over two dozen vulnerabilities. Among the user facing improvements in Chrome 36 is a new look for the Incognito mode. Chrome has had an incongito mode since Google first debuted the browser back in […]

Intel reported its second quarter fiscal 2014 financial results on July 15, once again showing growth across multiple product segments. One area that is still growing is Intel’s PC unit, which has some key things going for it. For the quarter, Intel reported revenue of $13.8 billion, which is an 8 percent year over year […]

French vendor eNovance is one of the top ten contributors to the OpenStack cloud platform and was recently acquired by Red Hat in a deal valued at $95 million. Unlike Red Hat’s OpenStack Platform, which is an OpenStack distribution, eNovance focused on cloud services and does not build its own unique OpenStack distribution. In a […]

The Disaster Recovery business is old hat for IBM, with over 40 years of experience providing services to companies around the world. In the modern cloud era though, that business is evolving as new services and opportunities emerge. Helping to lead IBM’s effort in this area is Laurence Guihard-Joly, General Manager for IBM’s Business Continuity […]