Sean Michael Kerner

The open source Puppet configuration management tool has emerged in recent years as being a key technology for cloud and virtualization enablement. Puppet is backed by Puppet Labs, which today announced the acquisition of Cloudsmith, which build tools that will extends Puppet’s reach into the cloud. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly […]

Building a storage startup is no easy task — just ask Markus Rex, the co-founder and CEO of ownCloud. OwnCloud Inc got its start in December of 2011 as a commercial enterprise. The promise of the commercial enterprise is to build out the enterprise supported version of the open source ownCloud storage system. Today, ownCloud […]

Perhaps more so than any other company, Amazon has helped to define the new Cloud era of computing. While Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) cloud offerings are tightly associated with specific tech capabilities and increasingly competitive pricing structures, there is another key element in Amazon’s cloud portfolio — support. Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits Protecting your […]

Finally. After years of talk, preview and beta releases, Red Hat at long last now has a generally available, commercially supported OpenStack cloud platform release. Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits Protecting your company’s data is critical. Cloud storage with automated backup is scalable, flexible and provides peace of mind. Cobalt Iron’s enterprise-grade backup and recovery […]

IBM today announced that is has officially closed on its acquisition of privately-held cloud vendor SoftLayer. The deal closing comes just over a month after IBM first announced its intention to acquire SoftLayer. “This acquisition, closing today, is open for business today, completely, fully and globally,” IBM’s new Cloud Services General Manager Jim Comfort said […]

The Document Foundation is getting a big boost today, thanks in part to silicon vendor AMD. AMD is now a member of The Document Foundation’s Advisory Board and is helping the open source group improve the LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet program. The improvement will be the biggest overhaul of the open source spreadsheet since LibreOffice split […]

Mozilla is out today with an updated open source Firefox 22 browser release. The new browser release includes fixes for 14 security advisories and bakes in new features for users. Among the big items that has landed in Firefox 22 is WebRTC. WebRTC is a Real Time Communication (RTC) effort that will enable users to […]

Linux vendor Red Hat announced its first quarter fiscal 2014 earning results late Wednesday, showing continued growth across multiple fronts, including the cloud. While Red Hat is now all in on OpenStack as a cloud platform, CEO Jim Whitehurst cautioned financial analysts that it is still early days. For the quarter, Red Hat reported revenue […]

BOSTON. Cloud computing offers the promise of improved scalability and agility, two things that can be a huge benefit to the U.S. Armed Forces. In a session at the Red Hat Summit (last week) a panel of defense contractors detailed some of what they have seen within U.S .defense agencies as they consider the move […]

BOSTON. Red Hat is a company that generates over $1 billion a year in revenues from open source software. It should come as no surprise then, that the CEO of Red Hat sees being open as the key to innovation. Speaking at the opening keynote for the Red Hat Summit, CEO Jim Whitehurst stressed that […]