Cameron Sturdevant

For the second day in a row, I’ve briefed with a system/app/network/storage management company that claims to have found the El Dorado: fully automated IT management. This time it’s Netuitive, which will be launching version 5.5 of several of its products starting in Q2 of this year. They call it a “…predictive IT analytics platform […]

I talked with UC4 today about their upcoming launch of a workload automation tool set currently scheduled for March 15. They seek the holy grail of predictive workload management, automating the allocation of scarce storage, network, compute resources along with complex job scheduling. Way back in the dusty history of time (circa 1998), CA (then […]

Chatter.com released yesterday (1/31/2011) and IT managers of companies and organizations large and small should pay attention. In December last year, I wrote an analysis piece on social media in the enterprise. That article was inspired by an opinion piece where I lamented the limitations of social media for business use. That’s all changing. In […]

Ready, set…your IT department has to recover a PC that is trapped in a BSoD (Blue Screen of Death). Do you send a tech deskside for a four-hour troubleshooting allotment, or do you spend five minutes sending down a new desktop image from your data center? Read my full review at eweek.com.

Chat and live-feed activity streams are part of the Winter 2011 SAAS ITSM platform. IT service desk users can now more easily “tiger team” tough support calls while increasing productivity by handling multiple chat support calls. Read my full review at eweek.com.

June 8th has been dubbed “World IPv6 Day” and will feature participation from Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Akamai and other organizations who will offer their content over IPv6 enabled networks for 24-hours. In late 2007 I wrote about the upcoming deadline for federal agencies including the Department of Defense to implement IPv6 network technology. As I […]

The 20th annual RSA Conference is lumbering into San Francisco next week. It’s huge, face-to-face, dominated by educational tracks, led by old guys, and run under the auspices of a vendor. How did the RSA Conference get to be 20 in such good shape? The RSA Conference is in some ways the opposite of trendy. […]

Business knowledge lives close to business users and far from IT staff. Filling the gap between the two are professional developers who use a high-powered combination of technical skill and specialized tools to craft the applications that run most business functions. Sometimes business users who know what they want to accomplish can also fill this […]

The Pano System 4 uses a shiny, tiny brick-with ports for the video, keyboard, mouse and USB connectivity-that significantly advances practical and cost-effective virtual desktop infrastructure. By completely removing the need for any PC-like components from the hardware, Pano Logic has garnered an eWEEK Labs Analyst Choice rating for advancing the state of the art […]

I used, or attempted to use an Apple iPhone on AT&T for almost four years. The phone and service worked great in my hometown of Oakland, but performed abysmally where I work in San Francisco. The iPhone touch interface and “they just work” apps cemented my loyalty even as the phone stubbornly refused to make […]

The GPS navigation capability in my cell phone is great. I like driving again because I’m never lost. But I don’t like the fact that in order to use services I have paid for, my location information, which I consider to be private, might also be used for purposes other than guiding me safely to […]

Oracle VirtualBox 4.0 Expands VM Support by Cameron Sturdevant Preview The redesigned and newly renamed VirtualBox Manager now shows a guest windows preview as seen in this side-by-side screenshot. File Layout Without changing compatibility for users of the previous version of VirtualBox, Version 4 puts all files associated with a VM into one directory. Base […]