Cameron Sturdevant

VMware has changed the name of its flagship VMware Infrastructure to VMware vSphere 4, and in the process has added new switching and management features that raise the bar for x86 data center virtualization technology. The VMware marketing team has been working overtime to promote vSphere 4 as the first cloud operating system. IT managers […]

Apple Xserve/Mac OS X Server Provides Appliance-Like Convenience The Apple Xserve running the Mac OS X Server operating system is among the first servers we’ve seen at eWEEK Labs running the new Intel Xeon 5500 family of “Nehalem” processors. The hardware/operating system combo works well, and IT shops that have concentrations of Mac users should […]

The Apple Xserve rack-mount server has been significantly upgraded and is now among the first servers to run the latest generation of quad-core Intel Xeon “Nehalem” processors. However, the bundled Apple OS X operating system-while feature-rich-makes the Xserve most appropriate for use in departments where users work on Apple Mac clients. Organizations that want to […]

While I accept that x86-based server virtualization is a growing fact of life in the data center, it wasn’t until I took a troubleshooting class at Interop Las Vegas in May that I fully understood why server virtualization is about to go further, faster. The trigger isn’t virtualization giant VMware’s recent release of vSphere 4, […]

This is a quick first look at VMware vSphere 4. I’ll be publishing a slideshow (with plenty of meat on the bones) in the next week and an in-depth review of vSphere 4 within the next couple of weeks. I got the vSphere 4 code from VMware a few days before shipment. My first impressions […]

Bomgar B200 Update Speeds Remote Support, Adds Mac Detail The latest software revision (10.3) for the Bomgar B200 remote support appliance speeds access to support representatives and increases the amount of detail shown for Mac systems. A “click-to-chat” button that can be permanently installed on end user systems makes it possible to immediately chat with […]

I locked it in a drawer. I left it in the lab. I tried to give it back to IT. But at the end of the day, I resurrected my old Windows laptop so I could run Outlook to get my e-mail and wouldn’t have to use Entourage In my ongoing quest to “go Mac,” […]

Citrix Receiver for iPhone Makes Windows Apps Mobile 3-D in Action This 3-D rendering of a mechanical device played as a smooth-flowing movie when my iPhone was connected to the office Wi-Fi. Here, you see three separate snapshots of the rendering action. Account Settings There is a certain amount of configuration that end users must […]

Citrix Receiver for iPhone puts enterprise applications in the hands of mobile workers-sometimes quickly, when the iPhone is connected to a Wi-Fi network, and sometimes slowly, especially using AT&T’s Edge network. Performance in eWEEK Labs’ tests was better but not snappy on the 3G cellular network.Organizations that already use Citrix XenApp infrastructure to deliver Windows […]

Sanho announced what the company calls the “world’s first and only external power for Apple MacBook family.” I’ve requested a review unit, but if the line of four external batteries (60/100/150/220 Wh) batteries works as described, this would overcome the most significant limitation I noted in my review of the MacBook Pro 17-inch laptop. Apple […]

eWEEK Labs recently took a first look at the release candidate of Windows Server 2008 R2–which was made available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers on April 30–and found that the update offers major improvements, especially in the area of virtualization. But the first thing you might notice is that the 32-bit version of the operating […]

Windows Server 2008 R2 RC Includes Important Improvements to Hyper-V Implementation Running Together Windows Server 2008 R2 RC improves on how guest machines are hosted in Hyper-V. In the next several screens, I’ll add a virtual hard drive to this running instance of Windows 7 to add storage space. Adding VHD On the left, you […]