Sean Michael Kerner

While cloud computing doesn’t require enterprises and end-users to build new infrastructure, the same cannot be said for cloud computing providers. IBM announced on April 26 that it is opening four new data centers to deal with an explosion of demand for cloud infrastructure. The four data centers include two in Dallas, Texas and another […]

AUSTIN, Texas — During the 1980’s insurance vendor MetLife had a popular slogan – ‘Get Met, It Pays’; at the DockerCon conference the 150 year old firm detailed how getting Docker has paid dividends for IT operations. In a keynote address, Aaron Ades, assistant vice president, solutions engineering at MetLife recounted the long history of […]

AUSTIN — In a keynote at the DockerCon conference today, Docker founder Solomon Hykes re-iterated the project’s mission and explained the very basic model of how the project works. Hykes has said time and again that Docker’s mission is to create tools of mass innovation, which is a message he said again today. He explained […]

The start of the new year is a great time to look forward to forecast what’s next. In that spirit, IBM published its annual ‘5in5’ forecast today, providing a glimpse into five innovative areas of technology that Big Blue expects to see in the next five years. A core element of all five predictions is […]

Ubuntu Linux started off as a desktop focused Linux distribution, but has expanded to multiple areas of the years. Ubuntu Linux is today a leading Linux server and cloud vendor and has aspirations to move into the embedded world, known today as the Internet of Things (IoT). In a video interview, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of […]

The long, slow march of Adobe’s Flash technology off the web has reached another milestone with the debut of Google’s Chrome 55 web browser. Over the last few years, Google has been slowly enacting elements of its plans to deprecate support for Flash in Chrome, in favor of HTML5 based media. In Chrome 42, which […]

When it comes to the cloud, no single vendor is bigger than Amazon, and when it comes to cloud conferences there is nothing like Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent. While most technology vendors use conferences to announce several new services, Amazon uses its re:Invent keynotes to announce dozens of new services. At the re:Invent 2016 […]

In its first year of standalone operations, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is living up to CEO Meg Whitman’s expectations. Hewlett Packard split into two companies in 2015, with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) handling the enterprise business and HP Inc taking over the PC and printer business. HPE reported its fourth quarter and full fiscal 2016 […]

The market for Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities has become increasing confusing in recent months as the Kubernetes container orchestration platform picks up momentum in an apparent battle against Cloud Foundry. For Linux vendor Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind the Ubuntu Linux operating system, the issue of Kubernetes vs CloudFoundry is about choice, as Canonical supports […]

Brian Behlendorf is well known in the open-source community as one of the founders of the Apache Software Foundation. Today, Behlendorf serves as the Executive Director of the Hyperledger project at the Linux Foundation, though he still takes an interest in Apache. In a video interview, Behlendorf discusses how the Apache Way continues to influence […]