Cameron Sturdevant

The Retina Display on the New iPad The most noticeable difference from the previous iPad is the Retina display, which really needs to be seen with the naked eye to be appreciated. New Features in iOS 5 on iPad New in the iOS 5 software that’s installed on the latest iPad is the iCloud online […]

For IT managers at organizations large and small, the new iPad comes with new IT management challenges along with the added features. While the 2,048- by 1,536-pixel resolution Retina display was the most visible enhancement to the newest Apple iPad, the device’s underlying iOS 5 operating system, optional iCloud service, and optional hotspot capabilities should […]

I had a chance to attend a Gartner Local Briefing yesterday in San Francisco where I heard David Cappuccio, Research Vice President speak for two hours about data center trends for 2012 and the next couple of years. Cappuccio threw out a number of interesting tidbits including such rules as allowing 30 square feet of […]

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) Security Provider Assurance (PA) usage model update takes the detailed specifications of the first generation PA and puts it in the language of an Request for Proposal) that IT managers can use to make it easier to comparison shop cloud data center providers. On March 6, the ODCA updated […]

End-User Welcome Okta uses a variety of cues to help end users be sure they are logging in to the right system. After I entered my user name, Okta popped up a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge (a picture I selected during my initial log-in) to visually cue me that this was the right […]

Okta provides on-demand, single sign-on and access management for organizations that use one or more cloud or Web applications during the workday. Okta isn€™t great at managing the log-in process for on-premise applications. Plus, IT managers who have a mix of cloud and on-premise apps may want to consider a more traditional identity and access […]

Site.com, a CMS (content management system) that equips business users with drag-and-drop tools for building websites, was made available today at the Salesforce.com CloudForce event in San Francisco. You can read more about CloudForce news here. Intended for sales, marketing and other corporate departments that use Salesforce.com as a platform for business operations, Site.com provides […]

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) Security Monitoring usage model supports and depends heavily on work being done at the Cloud Security Alliance and CloudAudit. Both of these groups are made up primarily of vendors or vendor employees who supply security services and products or who have a vested interest in promoting the idea that […]

On March 1 the Open Data Center Alliance updated five of the eight usage models that the organization released for the first time in June 2011. You can see my blog series about the models here. The updated usage models gained an RFP (Request for Proposal) tool that provides sample text that IT managers can […]

I named Informatica one of the top 21 vendors to see at the RSA Conference that was held last month in San Francisco. Informatica has been around for a while, but this is the first time the company has exhibited at RSA Conference. The main reason they showed up this year was to show off […]