Sean Michael Kerner

Intel reported its full year fiscal 2012 earnings late Thursday, showing particular strength in the data center business. For the year, Intel’s revenue was reported at $53.3 billion with Net Income of $11.0 billion. The lion’s share of Intel 2012 revenue came from its PC Client Group, with $34.3 billion, a 3 percent year-over-year decline. […]

The basic promise of cloud computing is that it offers more agility and better cost optimization for IT resources. It’s a promise that isn’t always true. Symantec today released its Avoiding the Hidden Costs of Cloud 2013 survey, which reveals that cloud penetration is now at all time high. According to the study, 94 percent […]

If patents are to be taken as hallmarks of ingenuity and progress, then 2012 was the greatest year ever for innovation in the U.S. A new report issued today from IFI CLAIMS Patent Services reveals that there was a 13 percent gain in patents issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 2012, […]

Mozilla is out with its first Firefox release of 2013 today, accelerating the open source web browser with a new engine. Firefox 18 includes the IonMonkey JavaScript engine that Mozilla first started testing in September of 2012. IonMonkey can improve performance by as much as 25 percent for JavaScript heavy pages, by introducing an extra […]

Google’s Android might need to look over its shoulder in 2013 as yet another Linux-based open source mobile operating system is coming to market. Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind the Ubuntu Linux operating system, today announced Ubuntu for Phones. The new effort will put Ubuntu into direct competition with Android, Firefox OS, Blackberry, iOS […]

Red Hat is expanding its cloud portfolio with the acquisition of ManageIQ. The deal is valued at $104 million and brings new cloud operations management technology to Red Hat. “ManageIQ brings an adaptive and integrated approach to important cloud management capabilities such as server and storage provisioning, workload optimization, policy-based compliance, charge-back, virtual machine life […]

What will the IT world look like in five years? That’s the annual question that IBM has asked for the last seven years with its Five in Five report. The 2012 report is now out, and for Big Blue the future of IT is all about the five senses. That’s right, IT is set to […]

Federated cloud identity and authentication is coming to OpenStack. The OpenStack open source cloud platform started out with only two components: Nova Compute and Swift Storage. Nova originally came from NASA and Swift came from Rackspace. Cloud Storage and Backup Benefits Protecting your company’s data is critical. Cloud storage with automated backup is scalable, flexible […]

Dell’s KACE division has always been in the business of managing IT deployments and updates, though until now the focus was not on mobile. Dell announced today the new K3000 Mobile Management Appliance which extends the KACE portfolio for mobile devices and the new world of Bring Your Own Device. Dell acquired KACE back in […]

What is the role of IT within modern enterprises? That’s a question a new study conducted by the Economist Business Unit and sponsored by Juniper Networks aims to answer. “Most people tend to think of IT as back office, back room guys, who are useful for reducing costs,” Juniper Network CIO, Bask Iyer told Datamation. […]