Cameron Sturdevant

[WP_IMAGE] The ODCA is using years-old work to help press the case for virtual machine interoperability. The basic idea is that VMs created on one hypervisor platform and/or running in a cloud provider data center should be able to move to another data center and/or to a different hypervisor platform. The ODCA mentions the work […]

[WP_IMAGE] Early data center cloud computing adopters likely had a competitive “secret sauce” that they didn’t want to share. Apparently, the balance is shifting from protecting the “secret sauce” to avoiding cloud vendor lock-in. Today, the ODCA (Open Data Center Alliance) issued eight sets of customer requirements that outline an open data center usage model. […]

It’s been just over a year since VMware and Salesforce.com announced VMforce. According to an unnamed Salesforce spokesperson, “VMforce is currently in private beta and we are planning a broader distribution later this year.” [WP_IMAGE] A year in beta is a geological age in the time scale in which VMware and Salesforce operate. Last year […]

Two Users Two users, Steve and Jake are both using Salesforce Summer -11. Steve wants to collaborate with Jake on a Microsoft Excel 2010 spreadsheet. Upload a File Steve uploads the file and shares it with Jake. Share with People Steve is shown selecting to share the Excel file with Jake. By default, an email […]

[WP_IMAGE] Salesforce Summer ’11 just released and the Chatter module got a ho-hum treatment when it needed a rocket ride. Business communication tools–especially from Salesforce.com–need to be more than an easy, breezy imitation of civilian social media tools. Here’s my eWEEK review and what follows is what I’d like to see in the next iteration […]

The social collaboration changes in the Salesforce.com Summer -11 rev of the software-as-a-service CRM platform consist of a light sprinkling of filter improvements to the Chatter enterprise social media module. The minor changes in the Chatter module improve content filtering by surfacing posts directed at a user or posts directed to files the user is […]

[WP_IMAGE] I don’t normally pay close attention to division commanders, but I did notice HP’s Marius Haas is out. Two weeks ago, Haas ballyhooed the introduction of HP FlexNetwork at Interop. Aaron Ricadela of Bloomberg reported Sunday that Haas and several other HP executives were leaving. The news caught my eye because of 3Com and […]

Every big network vendor is now touting an architecture that challenges the traditional three-tier design. Cisco and Hewlett-Packard are introducing equipment and design changes that increase the size of the Layer 2 collision domain to enable greater virtual workload mobility. Network managers are being offered a choice between known, proven designs and unknown, flattened architectures. […]

[WP_IMAGE] This week, HP announced a bevy of thin clients and a virtualization architecture that promises IT managers that they can switch between Citrix, Microsoft and VMware as needed. This is a good development, but I’d like to share some insight I learned at the VDI Smackdown at Citrix Synergy today. The announced products include […]

[WP_IMAGE] The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 13.3-inch laptop can be seen as Lenovo’s response to the MacBook Air. However, the heavier, angular and much more capable X1 should be considered on its own merits for business users who want a durable, sleek and portable system. For eWEEK Labs images of the Lenovo X1 in action, click […]