Sean Michael Kerner

From the ‘Make an Impression’ files: PARIS – Every tech conference has evening events and most of them are the same. Some kind of restaurant or bar, with food and maybe music. At the OpenStack Summit in Paris tonight, Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind Ubuntu Linux, actually held their event at the world famous […]

from the “C’est Bonne!’ files: PARIS- At any given OpenStack Summit that I attend I’m always looking for the proverbial needle in the haystack – that one project that I’ve never heard off before that offers new promise. At the OpenStack Summit in Paris I found once such effort – know as Glint. Glint is […]

From the ‘Standards That Aren’t’ files: The W3C announced this week that the HTML5 specification is now an official recommendation. While I was an avid supporter of the HTML5 effort in the early days, seven years ago, you can count me among those that aren’t all that excited by the W3Cs announcement. In the early […]

While much of the security world is consumed with the latest branded vulnerability (last week it was POODLE), the open-source PHP programming language fixed some very serious bugs. PHP is widely deployed across the Internet and is the language used to power much of the world’s leading Content Management Systems (CMS) and blogs (including this […]

Mozilla announced the Firefox 34 Beta release on October 17 and a key highlight is the new Firefox Hello feature. Firefox Hello is supposed to enable users to simply use the browser to be able to call each other. It’s a feature that leverages the emerging WebRTC standard and a feature that I was very […]

The open-source Docker container virtualization project is out this week with the Docker Engine 1.3 release, providing some really important security features. Docker Founder Solomon Hykes detailed many of the big updates in Docker Enginer 1.3 during a Linuxcon keynote in August. Among the big additions is the ability to check images with the using […]

From the ‘Little Computer that Could’ files: I own three Raspberry Pi’s (two B’s and one B+) and many people I know also own one or more Pis. All those Pi add up and now the Raspberry Pi Foundation says that it has sold 3.8 million units. That’s a whole lot of Pi. The Raspberry […]

From the ‘Not Far Now’ files: The open-source OpenStack cloud platform is *almost* at its next major release, known as Juno — but first there all the release candidates. Earlier today. the Ceilometer monitoring project released its RC2 milestone for Juno. The Keystone project alsoreleased its RC2. Yesterday, Sahara, the project formerly known as Savanah […]

From the “I Didn’t See That One Coming” files: Joshua McKenty is one of my favorite people in the OpenStack community. He’s one of the co-founders of the NASA side of OpenStack, a co-founder for Piston Cloud Computing and a member of the OpenStack Foundation Board. I just found out that McKenty is leaving Piston, […]

From the “Samurai Leadership” files: Larry Ellison is stepping down as CEO of Oracle. Let that sink in for a second. One of the most well-known personalities and forces in the technology world is stepping down from the primary leadership of the company he has led for decades. But Larry isn’t going too far. Ellison […]

From the ‘Bare Metal Rulez’ files: The Ironic OpenStack bare metal technology is one of the most interesting projects with the open-source OpenStack platform that I’ve been tracking in recent years. Ironic enables bare metal provisioning of servers which is becoming increasingly important for service providers. For example, Rackspace now has a Bare Metal offering […]

From the ‘Where are they now’ files: On August 28, Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens announced that he was leaving Red Hat after being at the company for the last 12 years. At the time, we didn’t know where he was headed. Now we do. Stevens is now working at Google as the Vice-President of […]