Jason Brooks

Cameron Sturdevant has been with the Labs since 1997, and before that paid his IT management dues at a software publishing firm working with several Fortune 100 companies. Cameron also spent two years with a database development firm, integrating applications with mainframe legacy programs. Cameron’s areas of expertise include virtual and physical IT infrastructure, cloud […]

Enterprise microblogging services can offer an organization’s users a new way of collaborating with one another, of keeping tabs on important company information, and of staying up to date on the activities of partners, customers and others outside the organization. Here are some factors to consider when evaluating one of these services. 1. Desktop app […]

Latest Enterprise Linux OS from Red Hat Shines in Server Room Roles by Jason Brooks Virtualization Host Install Option I was pleased to find an easy virtualization host option in the RHEL 6 installer—something I missed in recent tests of Fedora 14. Virtualization Tools The graphical tools that ship with RHEL 6 have improved over […]

Convirture’s vCenter workalike builds on the virtualization foundation offered by Linux server operating systems such as those from Red Hat and Ubuntu, with an easy-to-use Web-based management interface and separate open source and enterprise product options. Read my full review at eweek.com.

The beta release of the Windows client for Canonical’s Ubuntu One service is off to a solid start, but work remains if it’s to overtake Dropbox. Read my full review at eweek.com.

The latest Linux-based OS from Red Hat offers a strong foundation for hosting virtual workloads, complete with distinctive capabilities such as security features rooted in SE Linux. Read my full review at eweek.com.

So, the third time was indeed the charm. After two false starts, Apple finally made iOS 4.2 available on November 22, beating its self-imposed deadline by over a week. But between this software update and Black Friday looming on the other side of the Great American Tryptophan Festival, I wouldn’t want to be working in […]

About four years ago, I wrote a blog post (since lost, apparently, to the sands of blog platform migration) entitled “What Is Fedora’s Prime Directive?” At issue, more or less, was whether it was appropriate for the Fedora project to push an Xorg modification that stood to deliver benefits to users of open source graphics […]

Fedora 14 Adds Development Tool, Desktop Virtualization Enhancements by Jason Brooks Another Solid Linux OS Fedora 14 is another solid offering from Red Hat and the Fedora community. Spice Red Hat’s Spice remote desktop protocol has finally made its way into Fedora, albeit with limited integration. Virt-Manager Specifically, Spice is not yet integrated with Fedora’s […]

As rumors had predicted, Apple released today the latest update to Snow Leopard, but without the AirPrint support that was supposed to make it possible for iOS devices such as the iPhone and iPad to make use of printers shared from Mac computers. Mac OS X 10.6.5 is available from Apple’s Software Update service; it’s […]