Sean Michael Kerner

IBM reported its second quarter fiscal 2013 earnings on Wednesday night, with numbers that aren’t particularly impressive. Yet there is a light at the end of the tunnel for IBM and it’s likely in the cloud. For the quarter, IBM reported revenue of $24.9 billion, which is a 3 percent year-over-year decline. Net Income was […]

Lenovo and Extreme now have a strategic global reseller alliance with each other, enabling Lenovo to resell Extreme networking gear. As part of the alliance, the two vendors are developing a number of reference architectures that pair Lenovo’s servers with Extreme switches in validated solution sets. Eileen Brooker, vice president of strategic alliances at Extreme […]

Unlike Microsoft, which provides its users with a monthly regular patch cycle, Oracle uses a quarterly Critical Patch Update (CPU) approach. The July CPU is now out, and it’s a big one. It provides no less than 89 security fixes across a wide swath of Oracle products including database, Fusion Middleware, MySQL, Oracle VM and […]

Puppet is backed by Puppet Labs, which today announced the acquisition of Cloudsmith, which build tools that will extends Puppet’s reach into the cloud. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed and all members of the Cloudsmith’s current staff will be retained. “The Cloudsmith team has deep expertise with developers and their […]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.10 provides users with a variety of updated capabilities, including a new version of MySQL, improved management tools and enhanced security. RHEL 5 first debuted in 2007. It’s is now in what Red Hat refers to as Production Phase 2 of its lifecycle. “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 entered the […]

Alan Murphy, director of enterprise marketing architecture at F5, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet that among the big-ticket items in the new BIG-IP release, the ScaleN architecture stands out. “ScaleN is the culmination of a bunch of different features at both the hardware and software level,” Murphy said. “It allows the entire platform to scale […]

Paul Rodwick, VP of product management for Oracle Exalytics, explained to Enterprise Apps Today that the Exalytics system works with existing information management systems and both structured and unstructured data sources. Exalytics is an in-memory analytics system and will identify what data should be pulled into memory. With the Exalytics X3-4, Oracle is doubling the […]

From the ‘It’s all part of the game’ files: A lot of chatter on the LKML (and elsewhere) this week about civility, threats and verbal abuse in the Linux kernel development community. It all started thanks to Sarah Sharp, who asked for a new level of decorum and professionalism. It’s a conversation that remains hotly […]

From the ‘Because it Matters’ files: GitHub has emerged to be one of the most popular (if not THE most popular) tool for collaborative online version control and development. While it is often associated with open source software development, that’s not always a requirement. In fact, many projects on GitHub (the actual numbers vary depending […]

VMware is selling Zimbra to social community vendor Telligent. VMware acquired Zimbra from Yahoo! in 2010 for an undisclosed amount. Like VMware, Yahoo! only owned Zimbra for three years. Yahoo! acquired Zimbra in September of 2007 for $350 million. As was the case when VMware acquired Zimbra from Yahoo!, financial terms of the sale to Telligent […]

Granite first debuted in February of 2012 as part of Riverbed’s Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure (Edge-VSI) initiative. “Granite sort of vacuums up all of the servers and data that are out at branch offices and pulls it back into the data center,” Jerome Noll, cloud storage marketing director at Riverbed, explained to Enterprise Networking Planet. […]

OwnCloud Inc got its start in December of 2011 as a commercial enterprise. The promise of the commercial enterprise is to build out the enterprise supported version of the open source ownCloud storage system. Today, ownCloud officially released its Enterprise Edition 5.0 release, providing enhanced file sync and share capabilities. Among the improved features is […]