Sean Michael Kerner

HP is set to advance its private and hybrid cloud efforts with an upcoming release of CloudSystem. CloudSystem 8 was announced today and is set for customer availability in early 2014. CloudSystem was updated earlier this year to version 7.2, which provides new bursting capabilities that enable it to scale out to the public cloud. […]

The Linux Foundation does many different things, and is now leading an effort to help advance the Internet of Everything. The Internet of Everything, sometime also simply referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT) is the idea that every device whether it’s a toaster, consumer electronics or a computer is going to be connected […]

You can now add another name to the list of vendors that offers a production-grade Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud platform. Google officially announced late Monday that its Compute Engine is now Generally Available and ready for mission critical workloads. The Google Compute Engine was first launched as public beta by Google in June 2012. When Google […]

Hewlett-Packard (HP) reported its fourth quarter fiscal 2013 earnings late Tuesday, showing the results of CEO Meg Whitman’s turnaround efforts. Whitman also hinted at a major new area of growth for HP as it could soon enter the emerging market for 3D printing. For the quarter, HP reported revenue of $29.1 billion, down three percent […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) have long defined the cloud industry, and with a new set of services announced today the definition is expanding. At Amazon’s re:invent conference in Las Vegas today, CTO Werner Vogels detailed a number of new cloud services that his company is now officially launching. Those services include the new Kinesis real-time […]

The basic idea behind the cloud is that it enables greater agility and faster time to market, which are two key characteristics that all startups crave. The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) recognizes the need for cloud technology for startups, and by way of its wholly owned Cyberport initiative, is now […]

HONG KONG – Though OpenStack is only a three-year-old technology, it has found itself a home in China with a number of large scale deployments. Speaking at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong this week, a number of China-based Internet vendors detailed what they are doing with the open source cloud platform. The numbers are […]

HONG KONG – Danny Sabbah, CTO and General Manager, Next Generation Platform at IBM is very bullish on the cloud, and in particular the open source OpenStack cloud. Speaking at the OpenStack Summit here, Sabbah detailed in a keynote why OpenStack works and how IBM and everyone else is now able to benefit from it. […]

The open source OpenStack project is out with a new milestone release today, advancing the state of cloud technologies. The OpenStack Havana platform includes new orchestration and monitoring capabilities and it improves on existing compute, storage and networking functions. Among the many contributors to OpenStack development, Linux vendor Red Hat tops the list as measured […]

VMware is continuing to expand its virtualization and cloud solutions with a series of new product releases announced today at the company’s VMworld Europe event. On the end-user computing side, VMware announced the acquisition of Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) vendor Desktone. Financial terms of the deal have not been publicly disclosed. Erik Frieberg, VP of product marketing, […]