Cameron Sturdevant

[WP_IMAGE]I got a sneak peak demo of the DataSift social sentiment monitoring tool at eWEEK Labs San Francisco office earlier this week. On Nov. 16 the company launched in the US, making its Twitter stream analysis and reporting tool available via the cloud and sold by subscription.Basically, DataSift licenses the full data stream from Twitter […]

Robust Internet connectivity plus virtualization, along with a heavy dose of managed hosting experience equals infrastructure as a service, a utility model where compute, storage and virtual machine instances are available at a moment’s notice and paid for based on usage. Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is the granddaddy of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings and is […]

[WP_IMAGE] After what seems like years, I’ve follwed eWEEK Labs Editor-in-Chief Jason Brooks into Amazon’s EC2. I’m setting up the database needed to run the exercises in “Baseball Hacks-Tips & Tools for Analyzing and Winning with Statistics” written by Joseph Adler and published by O’Reilly. My virtual machine is running in a micro instance of […]

[WP_IMAGE] As it stands today, unfriending or unfollowing someone on one of my social networks seems akin to breaking up with a high school sweetheart. Therefore, I’d like enterprise social networks to enable what I’ll call “provisional following.” In other words, I’d like to be able to specify the how long I’ll follow a person, […]

[WP_IMAGE] The magic of information technology comes with a price tag. If your IT organization has taken a couple of steps down the virtualization road, you’re likely coming to that part of the trail where you need to know “how much is all this costing?” and “is the cost being shared equitably across the business?” […]

To understand how virtual machine resources are being used in your organization, follow the money. Assigning costs to IT assets in the virtual world is so different from the physical-only model that data centers are leaving behind that special tools must be brought in to sniff out the money trail. Thus far, the drastic cost […]

Thin-client hardware devices are gaining processing power, codec smarts and management tools that combine with speed boosters from virtual desktop platforms and are mounting a serious challenge to the PC refresh treadmill. Even more extreme slimming called a “zero client” is stripping out any local operating system, thus reducing the attack surface, power consumption and […]

[WP_IMAGE] I’m wrapping up a look at thin client computing and the one thing that’s clear is that “thick” client PCs are doing pretty well by just playing possum. The sheer technology momentum behind the desktop PC means that increasing processor power and graphics capabilities along with dirt cheap storage go a long way towards […]

/imagesvr_ce/eweek/eweek_labs/2011/10/2011-10-20-quake-289×300.png A 4.2 magnitude earthquake centered in Berkeley, Calif. shook the Bay Area 3 p.m. Regardless of where your data lives, the “big one”–in any number of forms, is coming. Contingency planning will make all the difference in the world. For example, few things focus the mind more than an earthquake. Not that the 4.2 […]

[WP_IMAGE] VMware is marching down the management path by integrating previously separate tools and introducing new suites. Released today, vCenter Operations Management Suite, vFabric Application Management Suite and IT Business Management Suite should help enterprise users maintain efficient use of IT infrastructure. vCenter Operations Management Suite (previously called vCenter Operations Manager) now combines previously separate […]