Cameron Sturdevant

GigaOM Structure 2010 Puts Cloud Computing on Display No Title Beware the “false cloud” Werner Vogels, CTO and VP of Amazon, picked up on a theme from Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff and debunked the myths that he said were thrown up by the “false cloud.” During an address to several hundred attendees at the UCSF Mission […]

VMware Security Appliance Marketplaces Top 5 Rated Appliances by Cameron Sturdevant StoneGate Virtual IPS Appliance The Stonesoft site still displays the “VMware Certified” logo, a program that was discontinued in April 2009. The product itself is current and well worth considering by security administrators. Altor VF Virtual Firewall The Altor VF Virtual Firewall is compliant […]

VMware Workstation 7.1 vs. Oracle VirtualBox 3.2.4 by Cameron Sturdevant AutoCAD 2011 With increased support for hardware-accelerated graphics capability, VMware Workstation easily handled AutoCAD 2011 workloads. Pin to Taskbar In Unity mode, it’s now possible to pin applications to the host system Windows taskbar. Here you see that I’ve pinned AutoCAD 2011, which is running […]

Apple Announces iPhone 4, Releases Developer iOS 4 by Cameron Sturdevant U.S. Mobile Browser Market Apple with Safari is at 58.2 percent. What Jobs didn’t talk about was the trends behind these numbers. iPhone 4 Jobs announced the iPhone 4 with the typical “falling from the ceiling” graphic much beloved by Apple marketing. Exo-antennas The […]

iPhone 4 Revealed by Steve Jobs at Apple WWDC by Cameron Sturdevant Front The front of the black unit. The iPhone 4 will come in black or white. Back A little smudged from first-day handling, this is the back of the iPhone 4. Left Edge Volume controls can be seen here. The black line near […]

Instead of focusing on definitions and the question of public or private, IT managers would be better off asking about license costs and service-level agreements when considering a cloud option as a platform for running business workloads. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Oracle VM VirtualBox continues to nip at the heels of undisputed virtualization leader VMware, resulting in a bounty of choice for application developers, IT pros and power users. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Tiny doses of personal technology helped me enjoy a great two-week trip through France and Spain. With the help of my iPhone, some temporary WiFi services from iPass and my two-year-old Canon PowerShot camera, I slipped through the streets snapping pictures while keeping in touch with the folks back home. I was helped along the […]

VMware ThinApp 4.5 Eases Application Conflict Through Isolation by Cameron Sturdevant Setup Capture Here is an overview of the steps for creating a virtual application. In this case I’m capturing Adobe’s Creative Suite 5, a very large application. Prescan Like many other packaging applications, ThinApp takes a capture of the registry and initial hard drive […]

A new dashboard to let non-IT users gain access to server and application configuration data to measure regulatory compliance only helps SCM 5.8 keep pace with the competition. Although SCM 5.8 does a decent job of reporting IT asset configuration data, IT managers should anticipate a moderate amount of tinkering to get really useful information […]

VMware ThinApp 4.5 supports 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems, including Windows 7. It also offers secure registry journaling protection and support for large .MSI packages. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Tech Analysis: Somewhere between the public and private cloud, between the way things are and the way they will be in the future, lies the very practical question of just how to keep a handle on all these newly virtualized resources. Read my full review at eweek.com.