Sean Michael Kerner

The Itanium 9500 has been on Intel’s roadmap since at least 2007. The Itanium 9500 is also at the core of a Mission Critical server refresh from HP that includes new Integrity and Superdome hardware. The HP update includes a new version of the company’s HP-UX Unix operating system as well. The Itanium 9500 series […]

At the end of 2011, IBM embarked on a dramatic re-organization of its security assets in an effort to consolidate strategy and product offerings. The new IBM Security Systems division was formed around the acquisition of Q1 Labs, a company IBM purchased last October. After a year of effort, IBM executives are confident the strategy […]

The Apache CloudStack 4.0 release continues the Cloud.com technology that Citrix acquired in July of 2011, in terms of both technology and perhaps more importantly, community contributions. In moving to Apache, the CloudStack project has come to embrace the processes and procedures of the Apache Way. The project also needed to re-license code from the […]

From the ‘Open Source Goodness’ files: I remember well when I wrote about Firefox 1.0, which was officially released on November 9th, 2004. It was a very different time – and it was 8 years ago. Mobile then meant WEP. A book meant paper and Firefox was the only game in town when in came […]

From the ‘Don’t Have a Cow – in 2012 – Man’ files: Last week, Fedora pushed back a milestone beta release, but still committed to getting the final Fedora 18 (aka the Spherical Cow) before the end of the year. That plan changed late Wednesday. The Beta is being delayed by an additional two weeks, […]

Big Data is big business. It’s a truth that Cloudera CEO Mike Olson understands better than most. Olson is no newcomer to the tech business. Prior to Cloudera, he ran Sleepycat Software which maintained the Berkeley DB database. Oracle acquired Sleepycatin 2006. The meteoric rise of Olson’s new company Cloudera however might end up taking […]

Linaro is a non-profit organization that is helping to organize and lead Linux server development on ARM. This past week, multiple vendors joined Linaro, including AMD, AppliedMicro, Calxeda, Canonical, Cavium, Facebook, HP, Marvell and Red Hat, to create a new working group called the Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG). David Rusling, CTO of Linaro, told ServerWatch […]

From the ‘I like to eat cookies, not save them’ files: More than a year and a half after Mozilla first led the way by promoting Do Not Track (DNT) technology for Firefox 4. Google is now finally on-board too, with the Chrome 23 release. The basic idea with DNT is it gives users the […]

Vyatta got its start back in 2006 with an open source Linux routing platform called the Open Flexible Router. The company evolved in the following years to position itself as an open source based alternative to Cisco and networking technology from proprietary vendors. Vyatta has raised millions in funding over the years, including a $10 […]

The traditional security paradigm for web interaction is that it is incumbent upon the user to ensure that a secure browser is being used. It’s a model that tech vendor Quarri Technologies is turning upside down. The Quarri Protect on Q (POQ) 3.0 solution released this week provides a server centric approach to delivering secure […]

From the ‘Say It Ain’t So’ files: I remember sitting down with Jim Zemlin, the executive director of the Linux Foundation not long after Microsoft announced it was becoming a sponsor of the Apache Foundation in 2008. At the time Zemlin told me that Microsoft had no place at the Linux Foundation. Times change. For […]

Chris Kemp, the first CTO of IT at NASA, helped to lead an effort at the U.S. space agency to create a cloud compute platform. The original 9,000 lines of code, known as Nova, have become the cornerstone of the OpenStack cloud project. OpenStack now has the backing of major IT vendors, including IBM, Dell, […]