Sean Michael Kerner

Rackspace is expanding beyond the confines of its own cloud to support Amazon’s cloud. It’s a move that will see Rackspace expand its Fanatical Support and Managed Security offerings to Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. Rackspace is primarily known as a hosting and cloud vendor, with its own infrastructure. In the last five years, Rackspace […]

Times are lean for Mozilla’s Firefox browser, no longer the second fiddle in the browser usage race, as it continues to fall behind Google Chrome and Internet Explorer and Edge for user market share. Into that environment Mozilla this week released a new stable release and a beta milestone of Firefox. Firefox 41 expands on […]

Larry Ellison, founder and CTO of Oracle, is now more bullish on the cloud than ever before, as his company is set to grow cloud revenues. Oracle reported its first quarter fiscal 2016 revenues on September 16 and cloud was identified as a primary driver of growth. For the quarter, Oracle reported revenue of $8.4 […]

When Jim Zemlin helped to start the Linux Foundation back in 2007, it was an organization with a singular purpose: to help grow and enable the Linux ecosystem. Now in 2015, the Linux Foundation is more than just Linux, and has helped to enable multiple open source foundations and efforts, including the Cloud Foundry Foundation, […]

After seven years of development, Google continues its rapid pace of release and enhancement for its Chrome browser. On the seventh anniversary of the first Chrome public release on September 2, Google released Chrome stable version 45 and Chrome beta 46. Google Chrome debuted on September 2, 2008 after months of speculation about Google’s intentions […]

Alex Polvi, CEO of CoreOS, has heard a lot of different myths about what containers can’t do and in a session at OpenStack Silicon Valley event on August 26. So he set out to debunk them. Polvi is more knowledgeable than most about containers, having built a purpose-designed Linux operating system with CoreOS just to […]

SEATTLE – Among the biggest pieces of news to emerge at the Linuxcon conference here this week is IBM’s announcement of a pair of Linux only mainframes known as LinuxONE. With the LinuxONE, IBM said that it is focusing Linux, but that doesn’t mean IBM is leaving its legacy behind either. In a press briefing, […]

SEATTLE – Global warming, income inequality and access to opportunity are three of the great challenges of our time, and they are three challenges where open source peer platforms could play a role. Speaking at the Linuxcon conference here, Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar, discussed her views on how an idea she refers to as […]

DreamHost has made a name for itself over the years as being a friendly, yet low-cost hosting provider, offering both shared hosting as well as virtual private servers (VPS). DreamHost is also a major backer of the open source OpenStack cloud platform and now offers the DreamCompute cloud server as well. In a video interview, […]

For only the second time in its history, Amazon is detailing how much money it is making from its Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud unit  — and once again the figures are staggering. Amazon reported its overall second quarter financial results on July 23, exceeding expectations. Net revenue was reported at $23.18 billion for a […]