Cameron Sturdevant

WINNER AirMagnet Inc.AirMagnet Enterprise 5.0 AirMagnet Enterprise carries on the companys tradition of technology excellence, which makes it the cream of the crop of the networking and management products entered in this years program. /zimages/3/28571.gifFor a list of all the winners and finalists of the fifth annual eWEEK Excellence Awards, click here. With AirMagnet sensors […]

Protocol analyzers are well-known—and, for the most part, well-understood—tools that are part of every network administrators virtual toolbox. Whats interesting about these tools today is the extent to which they are taking on new capabilities, both to distinguish themselves from one another and because playing around with packet-sniffing technology is just too tempting for developers. […]

Up and Running in Less Than Five Minutes I was able to deploy the HP Z1 workstation in under five minutes, and that includes reading the one-two-three deployment guide. The CPU, memory, drives and all other components are mounted behind the bright 27-inch display. The monitor height can adjust 100mm up or down. Flat, Compact […]

Hewlett-Packard will define a new category of workstation computers€”and garner an eWEEK Labs Analyst Choice award€”when it releases the HP Z1 on April 16. The HP Z1 Workstation is a 27-inch all-in-one PC with the compute power of systems that have heretofore been available only as tower systems. I recommend the HP Z1 for those […]

The Retina Display on the New iPad The most noticeable difference from the previous iPad is the Retina display, which really needs to be seen with the naked eye to be appreciated. New Features in iOS 5 on iPad New in the iOS 5 software that’s installed on the latest iPad is the iCloud online […]

For IT managers at organizations large and small, the new iPad comes with new IT management challenges along with the added features. While the 2,048- by 1,536-pixel resolution Retina display was the most visible enhancement to the newest Apple iPad, the device’s underlying iOS 5 operating system, optional iCloud service, and optional hotspot capabilities should […]

I had a chance to attend a Gartner Local Briefing yesterday in San Francisco where I heard David Cappuccio, Research Vice President speak for two hours about data center trends for 2012 and the next couple of years. Cappuccio threw out a number of interesting tidbits including such rules as allowing 30 square feet of […]

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) Security Provider Assurance (PA) usage model update takes the detailed specifications of the first generation PA and puts it in the language of an Request for Proposal) that IT managers can use to make it easier to comparison shop cloud data center providers. On March 6, the ODCA updated […]

End-User Welcome Okta uses a variety of cues to help end users be sure they are logging in to the right system. After I entered my user name, Okta popped up a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge (a picture I selected during my initial log-in) to visually cue me that this was the right […]

Okta provides on-demand, single sign-on and access management for organizations that use one or more cloud or Web applications during the workday. Okta isn€™t great at managing the log-in process for on-premise applications. Plus, IT managers who have a mix of cloud and on-premise apps may want to consider a more traditional identity and access […]

Site.com, a CMS (content management system) that equips business users with drag-and-drop tools for building websites, was made available today at the Salesforce.com CloudForce event in San Francisco. You can read more about CloudForce news here. Intended for sales, marketing and other corporate departments that use Salesforce.com as a platform for business operations, Site.com provides […]

The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) Security Monitoring usage model supports and depends heavily on work being done at the Cloud Security Alliance and CloudAudit. Both of these groups are made up primarily of vendors or vendor employees who supply security services and products or who have a vested interest in promoting the idea that […]