Sean Michael Kerner

Memcached, the open source distributed memory-based object caching system that enables Web 2.0 application to scale in order to meet the needs of highly traffic production usage, is headed to the cloud thanks to commercial IT services vendor Gear6. Gear6 launched back in April with the general availability of a commercial-enhanced memcached distribution. Gear6 isn’t […]

Novell’s business spans a number of IT areas, including Linux, groupware, security, business services management and virtualization products. Today, the company unveiled a strategy that helps to tie together a number of these units into an intelligent workload management solution for enterprises. The idea is to quip enterprises with the combined tools set necessary for […]

It has been a tough year for a lot of vendors in the IT space and for Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL), it’s been no exception. But even as it posts a widening quarterly loss, the company’s executives aren’t easing up on the pace going into 2010. Instead, they described plans to expand Novell’s Linux business as […]

Free, community-driven versions of Linux don’t often benefit from commercial enterprise support efforts. For CentOS, that’s now about to change. The clone of Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) Enterprise Linux is now being commercially supported by services vendor OpenLogic. OpenLogic’s aim is to fill a need for Linux users. Despite being built on RHEL’s publicly available […]

Virtualization has been a big push this year for Linux vendor Red Hat (NYSE: RHT). It’s also a big area of focus for the Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Linux 12 release, which is due out next week. The Fedora Linux distribution has been including virtualization technologies beginning with the Fedora Core 5 release in 2006 and […]

Microsoft and Novell entered into a landmark Linux to Windows interoperability, patent and sales deal in 2006 and today, three years later, the partnership is still going strong as it begins its next phase. The two partners now say they have more than 400 joint customers and are expanding their efforts around improving Windows to […]

Money can’t buy everything, especially when it comes to freely available open source software from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The ASF is now celebrating its 10th anniversary as a non-profit foundation that has grown from its initial project, the Apache HTTP Web Server, to more than 60 projects today. The Apache HTTP Web Server […]

A trio of tech heavyweights on Tuesday announced an alliance that’s targeting the lucrative corporate datacenter market where enterprise customers are racing to virtualize their data workloads and develop private cloud architecture for disparate applications and business processes. Executives at the three companies said the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition will “help organizations simplify and […]

In the enterprise, developers are often working on code for software even as it’s already in production use by IT operations people. But what happens when that code still has bugs? How does operations communicate back to developers, and vice-versa? The problem of integrating developer tools with operations tools is one that is now being […]

Networking vendor Brocade is often thought of as just being a datacenter player — a perception that company executives are keen to change. Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) also has enterprise campus as well as service provider offerings competing against the big boys of carrier networking like Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), Juniper (NASDAQ: JNPR) and Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU). […]