Sean Michael Kerner

Intel reported its first quarter fiscal 2014 earnings late Tuesday, showing strength in the data center and the emerging market for the Internet of Things. For the quarter, revenue was reported at $12.8 billion for a one percent year-over-year gain. Net Income was reported at $1.9 billion for a five percent year-over-year decline. Looking forward, […]

VMware today is announcing a new service that brings full disaster recovery capabilities to its users. The new VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS) Disaster Recovery (DR) solution allows virtualized data centers and enterprises to seamlessly enable DR services in their existing deployments. Mathew Lodge, VP of Cloud Services Product Marketing and Management at VMware, explained […]

VMware is aiming to grow its virtualization business with the release of the Horizon 6 suite of applications that enables Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) as well as Remote Desktop Services (RDS) delivery. The Horizon 6 release is the latest evolution of VMware VDI efforts and integrates a number of prior VMware efforts together. VMware first […]

Google is out with its latest Chrome web browser, providing users with improved security and new features for developers. Among the big new capabilities that have landed in Chrome 34 is support for responsive images. “Serving the same image resources to all devices can lead to slower page load times, wasted bandwidth and improperly formatted […]

At the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit on March 26, a panel of leading Linux kernel developers discussed the current state of Linux development and collaboration. Linux kernel developer Jens Axboe, who works for Facebook, explained during the panel why Facebook hires open source developers to work on the Linux kernel. Axboe said that it is […]

Mozilla has decided that there is no demand and no point in building a browser for Microsoft’s Modern Design approach, formerly known as Metro. The Metro interface is a key new component that Microsoft introduced to the desktop world when Windows 8 first hit the market in 2012. Metro offers the promise of a more […]

The cloud as an operational model is all about lower capital expenditures and making operations more efficient. Among the cloud vendors extending the model today is startup Cloudinary, which is aiming to solve the challenge of image management and manipulation at scale. Itai Lahan, CEO of Cloudinary, explained to Datamation that his company is aiming […]

HP reported its first quarter fiscal 2014 results late Thursday, showing some areas of growth as the company continues to streamline its operations. For the quarter, total revenue was reported at $28.2 billion, down 0.7 percent year-over-year. HP CEO Meg Whitman said during her company’s earnings call that on a constant currency basis, HP achieved […]

Career website Dice.com is out with its annual Linux Jobs market report and once again demand is growing. The report is sponsored by the Linux Foundation, which does of course have its own particular bias when it comes to Linux, though there are still a few surprises in it. “Based on our work with the […]

The market for cloud security is a hot one with multiple vendors all jockeying for both market and mind share. To gain share, typically requires money and lots of it. Today cloud security and compliance vendor CloudPassage announced that it has completed a Series C round of funding with $25.5 million pouring into the company. […]