Sean Michael Kerner

Amazon reported its second quarter fiscal 2016 earnings on July 28, and once again the company’s cloud revenue grew. For the quarter Amazon Web Services (AWS) revenue was reported at $2.89 billion, up by 58 percent from $1.82 billion in second quarter of fiscal 2015. So far this year, AWS has generated $5.5 billion in […]

IBM reported its second quarter fiscal 2016 earnings on July 18, with declining hardware revenues but a growing cloud business. For the quarter, IBM reported revenue of $20.2 billion, which is a three percent year-over-year decline. Net Income was reported at $2.5 billion for a 29 percent decline from 2015. IBM’s cloud business, however, is […]

The world of containers and OpenStack clouds are increasingly coming together, as organizations of all sizes look to become more agile. While the idea of running containers inside of OpenStack is one option, a powerful idea that is now taking shape is to run OpenStack itself as a set of containers, which is then managed […]

There is a lot of hype and some confusion in the world of IT today about precisely what Docker is and how it enables the emerging world of micro-services. At the Dockercon 16 conference this week in Seattle, there were many talks explaining Docker capabilities, but it was perhaps the Day 2 keynotes that explained […]

As organizations and their data increasingly move to the cloud and large scale distributed databases, one particular challenge that has emerged is how to actually backup and recover all that data. With a distributed cloud-scale database, such as MongoDB or Cassandra, data is made highly available across multiple nodes, which is great for data resiliency […]

Mark Shuttleworth is among the earliest backers of the open source OpenStack cloud effort, with Ubuntu Linux being the original reference platform. Now after 13 releases and broad adoption, Canonical and Ubuntu are still firmly behind OpenStack, though Shuttleworth has a few ideas on how it can be even better. In a video interview, Shuttleworth […]

For the last year, Lauren Cooney has been running open source strategy for the Chief Technology and Architecture Office at Cisco. Cooney’s career includes time spent at some of the biggest IT vendors in the world, including Microsoft as well as rival networking vendor Juniper, but the Cisco experience for her is a bit different, […]

AUSTIN – In the early days of the Internet, it was the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack that enabled the rapid growth of the Web. For the new era of the cloud, what will be the LAMP stack of the cloud? That’s a question asked by Mark Collier, Chief Operating Officer of the OpenStack […]

IBM reported its first quarter fiscal 2016 earnings on April 18, showing strong growth in the areas it defines as strategic imperatives, which includes the cloud, analytics and engagement. For the quarter, IBM reported revenue of $18.7 billion, which is a decline of five percent from the first quarter of 2015. Net Income was reported […]

Software defined cloud storage startup Datera today emerged from stealth mode, announcing both its first product and its venture capital funding. Datera has raised $40 million from Khosla Ventures, Samsung Ventures and Silicon Valley luminaries Andy Bechtolsheim and Pradeep Sindhu, to help fund the vision of elastic data. The company’s first product is called the […]