Sean Michael Kerner

The Ubuntu 11.04 Linux release is due out next week and with it will debut a new open source cloud platform. The Ubuntu ‘Natty’ release will include OpenStack, which is an open source effort that Canonical has been participating in since the beginning of the year. OpenStack was started by Rackspace and NASA and now […]

From the ‘What Goes Up, Must…’ files: Amazon has been the poster child for everything that is good, right and holy about the cloud. After today, Amazon will also be demonized for everything that is wrong with their own cloud. Amazon today suffered a major outage crippling hundreds (maybe thousands?) or sites (including a few […]

AT&T (NYSE:T) is off to a fast start in 2011, with growing revenues and increasing numbers of iPhone subscribers. Revenue for the first quarter of AT&T’s fiscal 2011 was reported at $31.2 billion, up by 2.3 percent on a year-over-year basis. Net Income for the first quarter was reported at $3.4 billion, or $0.57 per […]

Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) reported declining third quarter fiscal 2011 revenues this week. Third quarter fiscal 2011 revenues for the storage vendor were reported at $2.25 billion, a decline from of 15 percent from the $2.64 billion reported for the third quarter of 2010. Net Income was reported at $146 million, a decline from […]

From the ‘Pray I Don’t Alter the Deal Further’ files: The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) cares about open source. They care about open source so much that they’re forcing Novell to alter their deal with CPTN over the sale of 882 patents. CPTN is a group that includes Microsoft, Apple and EMC. The DoJ […]

Are you looking to run PHP in the cloud? A new service offering from RightScale and Zend is aiming to make it easier to manage and deploy PHP applications in the cloud. The RightScale Zend PHP Solution Pack integrates RightScale’s Cloud Management Platform with Zend Server for scalable cloud PHP deployments. The new effort is […]

Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) had a busy first quarter, launching new enterprise, mobility and service provider products. Juniper reported first quarter 2011 revenues of $1.10 billion, up by 21 percent on a year-over-year basis. Net Income was reported at $130 million, or $0.24 per share. Moving forward Juniper provided second quarter 2011 guidance for revenue to […]

Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) is out with its first quarter fiscal 2011 results, showing a decrease in revenues. Revenues for the first quarter were reported at $1.2 billion, a 24 percent decrease on a year-over-year basis. Net Income was reported at $190 million, for a 1 percent increase over the $188 million reported for the first quarter […]

Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) posted record first quarter revenues this week. Revenues for the first quarter of Intel’s fiscal 2011 were reported at $12.9 billion, up by 25 percent on a year-over-year basis. Net Income also grew by double digits, coming in at $3.3 billion, for a 34 percent increase from the first quarter of 2010. Intel’s […]

VMware (NYSE:VMW) is pushing IT transformation forward, and in so doing is continuing to grow itself. For the first quarter of fiscal 2011, VMware reported record revenues of $844 million. VMware’s Q1 revenues represent a 33 percent year-over-year increase for the virtualization vendor. Net Income for the first quarter was reported at $126 million, up […]

Cisco (NYSE:CSCO) is expanding its effort to make security policy more context aware. The new Identity Services Engine (ISE) provides a central policy point for networks, enabling administrators to manage access across an enterprise. ISE takes elements from Cisco’s NAC and TrustSec technology to build a more comprehensive view of access security. Cisco is also […]