Cameron Sturdevant

Android smartphones battle with BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7 and Apple iPhone for acceptance in the workplace. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Mobilize, presented by GigaOM, wrestled with the the continuing changes being wrought by mobile devices on development decisions. In the continuing war between web apps or native apps, the battleground at Mobilize was fought to a standstill. IT decision makers will have to decide which way to go based on company needs, not clear industry […]

We’re disposing of around 20 outdated PCs from the eWEEK Labs test center in San Francisco and the question of “what to do with the old hard drives?” has arisen. We have an equipment recycle service, but they make no guarantees as to what actually happens to the systems we hand over. These systems never […]

In August, my lab colleagues served up some desktop goodness in the form of a round table discussion of Windows 7, Linux and Mac operating system point/counterpoint. With eWEEK Labs Editor-in-Chief, Jason Brooks standing up for Linux and Senior Technical Analyst P. J. Connolly drilling in on Mac OS X, Senior Technical Analyst Andrew Garcia […]

VMware vCloud Director Unveiled at VMworld 2010 by Cameron Sturdevant eWEEK Organization An organization is the basis of a virtual data center offering. Here you see the creation of the eWEEK organization. LDAP Cloud resources can be integrated with existing IT resources including directory services. Logging In This is the user login to access the […]

High availability hardware solutions for the enterprise have been too costly and complex for most midsize organizations. Stratus Technologies is working with Intel ESAA-based server makers, ISV and VAR providers to make a software-only HA offering available to offices that likely don’t have a full-time IT staff person. Read my full review at eweek.com.

VMware VDI uses View 4.5 to deploy Microsoft Windows 7 virtual desktop systems. By reducing storage, processor and network overhead on data center infrastructure, IT managers can reduce TCO while improving ROI for virtual desktop infrastructure. VM performance can also be improved by removing services and task scheduler events that slow down virtual desktop operations. […]

A social network in private life is an uncomplicated proposition compared to connecting in a work environment. Consumer and even business-oriented social network tools are geared for individual rather than corporate promotion. Corporate social networking tools are coming on the scene and bringing with them the ability to gain insight into what matters to your […]

VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, Red Hat and a host of others are working to make it easier to monitor and manage virtual machines in the data center. Read my full review at eweek.com.

The Dell M4500 mobile workstation is a notebook system for mobile professionals who must be on the road with a system that is light enough to carry and powerful enough to crunch through tough graphics and compute workloads. Dell has certified the M4500 with the important graphics ISVs. And while the M4500 holds its own […]

The HP EliteBook 2540p notebook may be netbook-sized but lands squarely in the business world with serious CPU choices, an available optical drive and plenty of peripheral ports. Read my full review at eweek.com.

VMware, Microsoft, Citrix and others have forged ahead in making virtual desktop infrastructure a viable choice for centrally managed, highly configurable use cases. Here are “three C’s” to consider when testing a virtual desktop product: components, capacity, capability. Components include both the services and underlying physical components, capacity is the number of virtual desktop instances […]