Sean Michael Kerner

VMware is gearing up to expand its virtualization product portfolio. During the company’s Strategic Forum for Institutional Investors today, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger announced a pair of new initiatives designed to grow his company’s virtualization market footprint. “Ultimately our plan is to radically simplify IT,” Gelsinger said during the event. Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits […]

Red Hat’s OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering started its life as a mostly proprietary product built on technology acquired from Makara in 2010. In April of 2012, Red Hat made OpenShift available as open source under the OpenShift Origin effort. Simply making a project open source, however, doesn’t make it a true open source community with […]

In July 2012, Microsoft publicly admitted that it fell short in adhering to a 2009 European decision to provide Windows users with a browser choice screen. Today Microsoft has found out just how much their oversight will cost them and it’s not going to be cheap. The European Commission has imposed a 561 million EUR […]

SAN FRANCISCO. Playing video games is typically considered to be a form of recreation. As it turns out, playing games might just also be helping humans to become more resilient in their everyday lives and with IT. Speaking in a keynote session at the RSA Conference, Game Developer Jane McGonigal told the capacity crowd to […]

SAN FRANCISCO. Jimmy Wales believes that freedom and security go hand in hand. That’s the sentiment that Wales used to open his keynote at the RSA Conference on Wednesday. Wales is the creator of Wikipedia, the global open source encyclopedia that is used by hundreds of millions of people every day. The original concept behind […]

SAN FRANCISCO. In the world of online privacy, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla are all front and center. The chief privacy officers from all four vendors took the stage at the RSA Security conference today to debate what online privacy is all about. The most heated moment during the panel discussion came when Keith Enright, […]

SAN FRANCISCO. Week after week, we are all bombarded with new security headlines about threats and attacks. Even though the IT security landscape is not lacking challenges, Microsoft’s Scott Charney, Corporate VP, Trustworthy Computing, believes that there is reason for optimism. “My optimism is not delusional,” Charney said. “It is based in fact.” Charney delivered […]

In the open source mobile world, where vendors announce new phone efforts with alarming regularity, action speaks louder than words. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, open source vendor Mozilla is acting on its mobile ambitions. Mozilla is announcing that at least 17 carriers spanning the globe have now committed to carrying FirefoxOS-based […]

The cloud isn’t just about infrastructure, it’s about services too. HP today is enhancing its HP Cloud offering with several new services and a partner program aimed at growing the cloud market. The new services include cloud monitoring, load balancing and DNS services. Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits Protecting your company’s data is critical. Cloud […]

The Ubuntu Linux operating system started off as a server and desktop operating system. Today Ubuntu has become much more, extending out to TVs, phones and now tablets. Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth today announced the new Ubuntu Tablet interface. For Shuttleworth, the Ubuntu Tablet is a natural extension of his company’s convergence strategy. “It’s exactly […]