Cameron Sturdevant

It’s been just over a year since VMware and Salesforce.com announced VMforce. According to an unnamed Salesforce spokesperson, “VMforce is currently in private beta and we are planning a broader distribution later this year.” [WP_IMAGE] A year in beta is a geological age in the time scale in which VMware and Salesforce operate. Last year […]

Two Users Two users, Steve and Jake are both using Salesforce Summer -11. Steve wants to collaborate with Jake on a Microsoft Excel 2010 spreadsheet. Upload a File Steve uploads the file and shares it with Jake. Share with People Steve is shown selecting to share the Excel file with Jake. By default, an email […]

[WP_IMAGE] Salesforce Summer ’11 just released and the Chatter module got a ho-hum treatment when it needed a rocket ride. Business communication tools–especially from Salesforce.com–need to be more than an easy, breezy imitation of civilian social media tools. Here’s my eWEEK review and what follows is what I’d like to see in the next iteration […]

The social collaboration changes in the Salesforce.com Summer -11 rev of the software-as-a-service CRM platform consist of a light sprinkling of filter improvements to the Chatter enterprise social media module. The minor changes in the Chatter module improve content filtering by surfacing posts directed at a user or posts directed to files the user is […]

[WP_IMAGE] I don’t normally pay close attention to division commanders, but I did notice HP’s Marius Haas is out. Two weeks ago, Haas ballyhooed the introduction of HP FlexNetwork at Interop. Aaron Ricadela of Bloomberg reported Sunday that Haas and several other HP executives were leaving. The news caught my eye because of 3Com and […]

Every big network vendor is now touting an architecture that challenges the traditional three-tier design. Cisco and Hewlett-Packard are introducing equipment and design changes that increase the size of the Layer 2 collision domain to enable greater virtual workload mobility. Network managers are being offered a choice between known, proven designs and unknown, flattened architectures. […]

[WP_IMAGE] This week, HP announced a bevy of thin clients and a virtualization architecture that promises IT managers that they can switch between Citrix, Microsoft and VMware as needed. This is a good development, but I’d like to share some insight I learned at the VDI Smackdown at Citrix Synergy today. The announced products include […]

[WP_IMAGE] The Lenovo ThinkPad X1 13.3-inch laptop can be seen as Lenovo’s response to the MacBook Air. However, the heavier, angular and much more capable X1 should be considered on its own merits for business users who want a durable, sleek and portable system. For eWEEK Labs images of the Lenovo X1 in action, click […]

[WP_IMAGE] As part of my preparation for the Citrix Synergy conference in San Francisco, I brushed up on different virtual desktop technologies. Part of this exercise involved watching the short online videos that Citrix, Microsoft and VMware use as part of their product pitch to the outside world. After seeing these clips in a group, […]

[WP_IMAGE] The Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) was announced on May 17 and much of the analysis since then has focused on the formation as an attack on VMware. I concur that the OVA is an attempt to coordinate support for KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine), which is an integral part of Linux. But if this is […]

Gorilla Glass meets Penguins The 13.3-inch Corning Gorilla Glass display is a bright, edge-to-edge screen. 6-Row, Island-Style Keyboard This is the first ThinkPad with island-style keys. Arranged in six rows, the full-sized keyboard is a large trackpad and control keys running down the right side of the keyboard deck. The matte black finish is nice, […]

The X1 13.3-inch laptop is in many ways Lenovo’s response to the MacBook Air. However, the heavier, angular and much more capable X1 should be considered on its own merits for business users who want a durable, sleek and portable system. The Lenovo business-class system has a number of ThinkPad firsts including a bright, 13.3-inch […]