Cameron Sturdevant

Cutting the Cable on Cable TV with the Help of Apple and Amazon, Part 2 AntennaWeb Locator The red star indicates the center of my home zip code in downtown Oakland, Calif. This is the first step in getting antenna orientation information. My apartment is an interior first-floor unit, so my chief concern was the […]

There are few technologies in the data center that are getting the same level of attention from enterprises as virtualization. Virtualization offers the promise of driving down costs through consolidation while increasing server utilization. The technology also is rapidly expanding beyond servers and into other aspects of the data center, from storage devices to applications […]

There are many product areas that will overlap if IBM does acquire Sun Microsystems, but especially key is the directory space. IBM and Sun have directly competing directory servers, and directories are at the heart of the access control systems that end-user security products depend on. This is particularly true of large, regulated enterprises, where […]

Cutting the Cable on Cable TV with the Help of Apple and Amazon Motorola Cable Modem The heart of my cable-cutting experience starts with my Motorola SURFboard wireless cable modem gateway, the SBG900. The SURFboard let me cut the cord on monthly cable company equipment rental costs. What It Looks Like My Samsung LN32A550 32-inch […]

Cisco Systems is rolling out an ambitious data center strategy dubbed the Unified Computing System, and at the heart of it will be Cisco server blades and the Nexus family of switches. The Nexus switches, along with protocols-including FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet)-and a significant collection to top-tier partners have been wielded together by Cisco […]

Seven Things I Hate About Entourage for Apple Mac OS X (and 3 Things That Tempted Me) by Cameron Sturdevant The 7 Things I Hate No New Calendar Appointment from E-Mail When I found that I couldn’t drag an e-mail onto the Entourage calendar to create a new appointment, I stopped using Entourage. No Drag […]

eWEEK Labs Looks at Kace’s V-KBox 1200 Systems Management Appliance eWEEK Labs Looks at Kace’s V-KBox 1200 Systems Management Appliance No Title The V-KBox collected extensive, accurate hardware and software inventory from desktops and servers. You see tabs across the top of the screen. When these tabs were accessed, the product did a good job […]

Physical appliance makers are creating virtual versions of their wares and selling them as “certified production ready” at the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace. I looked at Kace’s Virtual KBox 1200 Systems Management Appliance and found it able-but far from easy-to implement. Based on my work with the virtual and physical incarnations of the Kace appliance, […]

Microsoft has been taking a “Windows and the Enterprise” workshop on tour to promote the future Windows 7 operating system. One of the key messages from the workshop: Virtual desktop infrastructure is an expensive proposition unsuited to large implementations. Microsoft has a vested interest in the continued use of fat clients running on PCs, and […]

I’m going to detour from virtualization to circle back to computer security. I’ve been watching a lot of “The Rockford Files” and one 1974 episode, “Profit and Loss,” perfectly illustrated a social hack on a computer data center. I don’t know what was more interesting to me, the mainframe computers used in the set, the […]

Red Hat announced a family of four new virtualization products on Feb. 23 that are set to be released in phases over the next 12 months. The products take on a host of established players, including VMware and Citrix Systems. The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization family consists of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager for Servers, […]

Virtualization has proven its worth in the data center, essentially giving enterprises a tool that enables them to reduce overall costs while increasing their computing capacity. In recent years, virtualization has spread beyond servers into such areas as storage, desktops and applications. However, at the application level, work still remains before real ROI can be […]