Sean Michael Kerner

Is there money to be made in the cloud? If you pose that question to cloud hosting vendor Rackspace, the answer is a definitive yes. 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 […]

An increasing volume of online content consumption is shifting to mobile devices, especially tablets. That increasing content consumption is also not all about improved productivity, as bad habits from the desktop world are carrying over to mobile. Among those bad habits is the propensity for users to visit pornographic websites. Aside from any moral or […]

In 2008, Linux vendor Red Hat acquired virtualization startup Qumranet for $107 million. The core team behind Quamranet’s KVM open source virtualization hypervisor has since moved on to found a new startup called Ravello that is aiming to bring enteprise applications to the cloud. Ravello Systems emerged from stealth this week with a beta product […]

Look around in any café, street corner or public place nearly anywhere in the world and you will likely see mobile Internet users. Mobile Internet usage, thanks to the widespread use of smartphones, is widely adopted with further growth expected over the next five years. According to the new Cisco Visual Networking Index Forecast for […]

Michael Dell founded his namesake company in 1984 out of his University of Texas dorm-room. In 1988, Dell Computer Corporation went public, which has remained its status until now. In a move that had been speculated on for weeks, Dell today announced that the company is going private. Michael Dell himself is taking the lead […]

There is no shortage of IT monitoring tools in the market today, which is both a blessing and a curse. The problem for IT administrators is how to keep track and be alerted to network, application and server related issues from a single dashboard. It’s a problem that startup PagerDuty is aiming to solve. PagerDuty […]

The cloud isn’t just about infrastructure — it’s also about applications. Today IBM announced the global availability of its SmartCloud Enterprise+ service, with support for SAP applications. Dennis Quan, VP of SmartCloud at IBM, explained to Datamation that the new offering is all about helping to close the gap between what enterprises need and what […]

Hybrid cloud deployments are attractive to many enterprises in that they offer the best of both public and private cloud approaches. The move to hybrid is part of the evolution of cloud, according to IDC Research VP Mary Johnston Turner. It’s an evolution that will require a new generation of IT management technologies. Cloud Storage […]

IBM reported its fourth quarter fiscal 2012 and full year results on Tuesday, showing growth in a number of high-value segments. For the full year, IBM’s revenue came in at $104.5 billion, which is a 2 percent year over year decline. Net Income for the year was reported at $16.6 billion, which is a 5 […]

Red Hat today announced that it has officially closed on the $104 million acquisition of ManageIQ. The deal was first announced in December of 2012. With the deal now closed, Red Hat has revealed what it plans to do with ManageIQ. The roadmap includes merging the ManageIQ product and its capabilities into Red Hat CloudForms […]