Cameron Sturdevant

Labs Gallery: Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0 Ramps Up Challenge to VMware with SMP Support No Title Version 3.0 of Sun’s xVM VirtualBox software was released on June 30. With just a couple of new features and a slew of tweaks and bug fixes, the no-cost virtualization product isn’t an evolution, but one that continues in […]

Labs Gallery: The Lenovo T400s Furthers the ThinkPad Lines Workhorse Rep by Cameron Sturdevant Lenovo T400s The Lenovo T400s weighs 3.91 pounds with the optical drive and is 13.3 by 9.5 by 0.89 inches when used with the six-cell, 5.5-hour battery. The T400s has a 14-inch display and uses either an Intel Core 2 Duo […]

Lenovo’s thin and light ThinkPad T400s is an evolution in a line of workhorse laptops that is worth putting at the top of any organization’s shortlist for regular road warriors. The latest addition to the Lenovo T-series laptop family weighs 3.91 pounds with the optical drive and is 13.3 by 9.5 by 0.89 inches when […]

As part of my review of the iPhone 3.0 software upgrade, I tested the remote wipe feature. It worked great and turned my iPhone into a brick. Unfortunately, the restore process didn’t fare as well, but the failure did give me an opportunity to experience Apple customer support. First off, I have to admit that […]

The iPhone 3.0 upgrade’s new Spotlight search, along with myriad refinements to apps I use every day, is making me fall in love all over again with my second-generation Apple smartphone. Search isn’t new to mobile devices; it’s not even new to the iPhone. However, nothing provided by third-party apps comes close to the Spotlight […]

Labs Gallery: RoamBi Uses iPhone to Turn Dull Data into Eye Candy Views Using the RoamBi Publisher, I selected the pie chart view to present data to iPhone users. Other views include a card index, a list and Catalist, a list view with mini charts. Data Import Data can be imported from a number of […]

Labs Gallery: Apple iPhone 3.0 OS Enables Find, Remote Wipe Features From the Top On a second-generation 8GB iPhone, I’m starting with software Version 2.2.1. In Recovery The first thing I did before starting the update to Version 3.0 was a backup. The reason why is seen here. You will likely spend a fair amount […]

Labs Gallery: In Further Tests with Apple iPhone 3.0, Little Things Mean a Lot Start Search Flicking the home screen from left to right brings up the Spotlight search interface. As soon as I started entering information, possible results started to appear. Search Completed Hitting the Search button retracted the keyboard and yielded the results […]

The Apple iPhone 3.0 software adds much-needed basics-such as cut and paste and e-mail viewing in landscape mode-along with tools to help find or disable lost handsets that have gone astray. The no-cost upgrade will greatly enhance individual users’ experience, while also increasing the pressure for centrally managed, enterprise-class tools to harness the new power […]

RoamBi makes hard-to-display table-based data much easier to use on the Apple iPhone. The no-cost version of RoamBi (rohm-BEE) is an iPhone application that transfers data imported into a hosted service to the iPhone, displayed in concise, easy-to-navigate charts. The premise-based RoamBi Server, which does not limit data set size, costs $10,000 per physical CPU […]

In the first of a series of reviews I’m writing about VMware vSphere 4, I focused on important new features such as the vNetwork Distributed Switch and improved management tools. As a product reviewer, that’s my job-to focus on the product. But as an industry analyst, one of the big changes at VMware that caught […]

vSphere 4 Puts VMware Well Ahead of Virtualization Pack by Cameron Sturdevant Intel Prep VMware vSphere 4 takes advantage of virtualization extensions in processor hardware. Here, you see the BIOS setup screen for Intel Xeon “Nehalem” processors running on the Labs’ test system. Install ESX in Graphical Mode Many of the VMware platform’s components retain […]