Sean Michael Kerner

BARCELONA – OpenStack is an open source cloud platform but that’s not all that OpenStack is. In a session at the OpenStack Summit here, Thierry Carrez, Director of Engineering, detailed a broader view of what the entity known as OpenStack is really all about – and it is much more than just the cloud. For […]

For the last decade, Amazon Web Services has relied on US East Virginia as its primary east coast cloud region. Now at long last, Virginia is getting some company as Amazon announced on October 17 that is is finally opening a second US East Amazon Web Services (AWS) region. The new Ohio US-East Region joins […]

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu Linux, was an early backer of OpenStack as well as containers. This week, Shuttleworth’s company Canonical announced new commercial support for Kubernetes, which is a widely deployed container orchestration and management engine. In an interview with Datamation Shuttleworth emphasized that it’s important to understand the different use cases for […]

For more than two decades, open source was anathema to Microsoft, but times have changed. Microsoft in 2016 is increasingly embracing open source across multiple areas, both participating in open source efforts as well as supporting open source technologies on Microsoft platforms. As a public company, with shareholders and a board of directors to placate, […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is set to shed what it considers its non-core software assets in a deal valued at approximately $8.8 billion. With the non-core assets gone, HPE will still retain its OpenStack cloud business and will double down on hardware. HPE announced the so-called ‘spin-merge’ of its software assets to Micro Focus ahead […]

As open source continues to take over over the software development landscape, so too are the metaphors for how its success today has multiple historical precedents. For science-fiction author and activitist Cory Doctorow, open source is an idea that helped to raise humanity out of the dark ages. In a keynote at the LinuxCon North […]

TORONTO — Marc Merlin has been working as an engineer at Google since 2002 and has seen (and done) a lot of open source and Linux work during that time. Speaking at the LinuxCon North America event this week, Merlin provided a standing room only audience with an overview how Google uses and contributes to […]

TORONTO — The Linux Foundation first announced the formation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in July 2015. Now a year later the CNCF’s recently minted Executive Director took time at the LinuxCon event here to announce new members and free computing resources for projects. The CNCF currently hosts a pair of projects including […]

Amazon, the company that has done more than any other vendor on the planet to define the cloud model, is now in the process of redefining that model with a new era of services. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, helped to start the cloud revolution in 2006 when Amazon Web Services (AWS) was first launched. […]

There are a lot of different reasons why organizations choose to move to the cloud and many reasons why they do not. Speaking at a press conference during the Black Hat USA security event, security researcher Dan Kaminsky provided his views on what’s wrong with the Internet today and where the cloud can fit in. […]