Sean Michael Kerner

Oracle sees a silver lining in the cloud that will help to drive revenues forward. Oracle reported its fourth quarter fiscal 2014 earnings on June 19, showing clear momentum in the cloud. For the quarter, Oracle reported revenue of $11.3 billion for a three percent year-over-year gain. For the full fiscal 2014 year, Oracle revenues […]

Though the term ‘cloud’ is often used, the definition of what actually constitutes a private cloud is debatable for some. Server virtualization, from VMware and other vendors, is technology that has been around for a decade, but simply running a virtualized server infrastructure doesn’t equate to having a private cloud deployment. In a video interview, […]

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is in the midst of a massive restructuring effort that will see as many as 50,000 employees leave the company. HP announced new layoffs during its second quarter fiscal 2014 earnings call on May 22. For the quarter, HP reported revenue of $27.3 billion, which is a one percent year-over-year decline. Meg Whitman, […]

IBM officially announced its new Cloud Manager with OpenStack release this week. The new release provides organizations with a starting point for managing and deploying OpenStack clouds. In a video interview, Jeff Borek, World-Wide Program Director for Cloud Computing and Systems Software at IBM, details what the Cloud Manager 4.1 release is all about. Cloud […]

ATLANTA. The open source OpenStack cloud platform is not a hobbyist project, it’s a technology platform that is powering major brands today. That’s the message coming loud and clear from the OpenStack Summit here in Atlanta. During a keynote address, Mark Collier, Chief Operating Officer of the OpenStack Foundation, noted that since OpenStack was first […]

There is money to be made in the cloud, even in an era where the Amazon and Google are in a race to the bottom for pricing. That’s the message coming from Rackspace’s management during the company’s first quarter 2014 earnings call. For the quarter, Rackspace reported net revenue of $421 million, for a 16 […]

ATLANTA. OpenStack is not just about the cloud, it’s about connecting the entire planet in a way that has never been done before. At the OpenStack Summit here, Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation, kicked off the event with a visionary keynote about the role of the cloud in the modern world and […]

VMware today announced that it is supporting the Pivotal Cloud Foundry (CF) Platform-as-a-Service (Paas) on the vCloud Hybrid Service (VCHS). Pivotal and VMware are not strangers with one another. Pivotal was officially launched in April of 2013 and includes technologies spun out of EMC and VMware. The VMware vCloud Hybrid Service is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering […]

Equinix is one of the world’s leading data center and interconnection providers and is now aiming to be a leading vendor in the cloud space. Equinix’s new cloud initiatives were revealed during the company’s first quarter fiscal 2014 earnings call on April 30. For the quarter, Equinix reported revenue of $580 million for a 12 […]

The OpenStack Icehouse release debuted this week, providing users of the open-source cloud platform with a long list of new features. Among those features are live updates for Nova compute, storage replication enhancements and a new Database-as-a-Service capability. OpenStack got its start back in July of 2010 as a joint open-source effort between Rackspace and […]