From Here to the Cloud
Cameron Sturdevant is the executive editor of Enterprise Networking Planet. Prior to ENP, Cameron was technical analyst at PCWeek Labs, starting in 1997. Cameron finished up as the eWEEK Labs Technical Director in 2012. Before his extensive labs tenure Cameron paid his IT dues working in technical support and sales engineering at a software publishing firm . 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 computing, enterprise networking and mobility. In addition to reviews, Cameron has covered monolithic enterprise management systems throughout their lifecycles, providing the eWEEK reader with all-important history and context. Cameron takes special care in cultivating his IT manager contacts, to ensure that his analysis is grounded in real-world concern. Follow Cameron on Twitter at csturdevant, or reach him by email at cameron.sturdevant@quinstreet.com.
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Cabinet two holds permanent equipment (bottom) and new products (top).
The latest addition to eWEEK Labs in San Francisco spun up yesterday, creating a home for our latest server hardware and setting the stage for "what's next" exploration of the cloud.
Our downtown testing and studio space now has a VMware vSphere 4.1 "pretty permanent" testing infrastructure in cabinet one and an in-and-out testing space in cabinet two that plays host to equipment that is here only long enough for review.
So far we also have one bench set up as a thin client test area for further exploring virtual desktop implementations and a laptop and mobile bench for testing the plethora of portable computing systems that come through the lab. There's plenty of room, power and data capacity for our physical systems tests.
Now that the boxes have been recycled and the odd-and-ends have been stowed at our new digs at 49 Stevenson Street the business at hand is turning out more product reviews and commentary for you, our enterprise IT visitors.
Along with looking at the physical systems that make up the bread-and-butter of traditional IT, our new facility makes it easier for us to explore cloud-based offerings as well. We've significantly streamlined and fattened the pipes connecting us to the outside world. We intend to use these resources to extend our hands-on product testing to the ethereal world outside the physical confines of our otherwise very ordinary office.
