Cameron Sturdevant

[WP_IMAGE] Cloud computing moves the “do I care” technical conversation to new and different places, but at the end of the day someone still has to care about network and application performance at the physical level. Today Network Instruments announced Observer 15, the latest rev of the useful network monitoring platform. This is a tool […]

Collaboration squarely meets the “consumerization of IT” when users leave corporate tools such as email to use more convenient and effective applications with which to share files and work together. The growth of inexpensive, easy-to-access software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings such as Dropbox and Box.net have traditional email and FTP on the ropes. The concept of anytime, […]

[WP_IMAGE] If your employees have a growing problem of managing log on credentials across the cloud-based applications used at your company, you might be interested in the briefing notes I took when meeting with Okta this morning. The name of the game is subscription-based, identity management for cloud applications like Salesforce.com, Workday or Concur. The […]

[WP_IMAGE] Even the most airy cloud is, at the end of the day, made up of very solid steel, copper, and silicon that channel electricity. And monitoring the working condition of the server systems that live in giant data centers is of greater concern for IT managers as virtualization drives up consolidation ratios, putting an […]

Front The 1280×800 Gorilla glass display is easy to read. Here you see eWEEK mascot Spencer F. Katt enjoying an adult beverage. The 2MP front facing camera is in the upper right corner. Lower Edge From left to right, with the card cover open, SD card slot, SIM card slot, Lenovo dock connector, micro USB […]

The newly released Lenovo ThinkPad tablet flips the “consumerization of IT” paradigm by adding business-class features such as management software, full-size peripheral connectors-including a full-size USB 2.0 port-and an optional digitizer pen to a tablet that has a 10.1-inch display and runs the Android “Honeycomb” operating system. IT managers who are in a position to […]

The Microsoft Windows Server 8 developer preview has enough promising enhancements to virtual networking, storage and infrastructure management to warrant serious IT interest as a data center platform. While much is yet unknown about Windows Server 8, including when it will be released and license costs, the pre-beta, developer preview reveals a broad landscape of […]

Start Windows Server 8 (WS8) physical systems are meant to be managed as part of a group. Here, however, Im using the GUI on a single system. The interface changes are jarring, the resemblance to the tiles on Windows Phone 7 are clear. PowerShell Real work is meant to be done through PowerShell. As was […]

First-generation data center x86 server virtualization took existing hardware and made it more efficient. Organizations that take the next step-from consolidation to virtual operations-will combine much bigger virtual machines on increasingly beefy physical host systems. How big? At the VMworld 2011 conference in the late summer, VMware ushered in the era of the giant virtual […]

[WP_IMAGE]The water is boiling in datacenter land. In the space of two weeks I’ve covered the release of VMware vSphere 5.0 last month followed by Salesforece.com’s unleashing of the “social enterprise” at Dreamforce and then up to Redmond for a secret squirrel meeting about something I can’t talk about until tomorrow after Microsoft’s Build conference […]