Cameron Sturdevant

On March 1 the Open Data Center Alliance updated five of the eight usage models that the organization released for the first time in June 2011. You can see my blog series about the models here. The updated usage models gained an RFP (Request for Proposal) tool that provides sample text that IT managers can […]

I named Informatica one of the top 21 vendors to see at the RSA Conference that was held last month in San Francisco. Informatica has been around for a while, but this is the first time the company has exhibited at RSA Conference. The main reason they showed up this year was to show off […]

When it ships on March 16th, the new iPad will have a wide ranging wireless capabilities and greater integration with Apple’s iCloud online storage service making it tempting for endusers and challenging for IT managers. The iPad (the new one announced on March 7 and referred to by Apple as “the new iPad”) can now […]

2012-03-06 My first look at the cloud-based single sign-on tool OneLogin left me impressed and wanting to see more. I’ll be conducting a head-to-head review of OneLogin and competitor Okta in the coming weeks but for now I can say that IT managers who are looking to boost employee productivity should put OneLogin on the […]

While covering the RSA Conference in San Francisco I needed a pen, so I grabbed one from the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) booth. Even as a clicked the pen to jot some notes I couldn’t help wondering (not too seriously) if the pen was bugged or loaded with a tracking device. So, you can […]

Trusteer, Booth 117 Trusteer Pinpoint is clientless, completely transparent to end users and does not require software installation on the endpoint-a pretty neat trick. I’ll stop by to see how it works. I’ll also be looking at the Trusteer Situation Room product. LogLogic, Booth 529 I want to see how LogLogic finds the needle in […]

The release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 signals that 2012 will be the year that IT managers at organizations of all sizes have real choices to make when it comes to virtualizing workloads in the data center. RHEV 3.0 and the Microsoft Windows Server 8 release candidate both offer a challenge to the currently […]

In advance of the System Center 2012 Release Candidate announcement on January 17, I attended a reviewer workshop at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash. As I have predicted for many years, management mastery of virtualized environments will distinguished accomplished IT managers from the “also ran.” It’s clear that in the System Center 2012 RC, […]

[WP_IMAGE]Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 was released today with many of the changes from version 2.2 focused on improving management features.The open source, KVM-based (Kernel Virtual Mode) Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 hangs its hat, so to speak, on lower license costs and SPEC benchmarks that show it has an advantage over “proprietary” (read VMware) […]

[WP_IMAGE] The beauty of cloud-based applications is that any employee with a credit card (and sometimes not even that) can provision really useful corporate services on the fly. The ugliness of cloud-based applications is that any employee can provision services on the fly. When an employee leaves–even under the best of circumstances–the lack of central […]

[WP_IMAGE] Good management of datacenter virtualization is the key to cost savings and competitive advantage. In 2012 there will be a new set of questions to ask about managing data center server virtualization. The reason? The impending release of Microsoft Windows Server 8. VMware’s vSphere will have a significant challenger even for high value workloads […]

[WP_IMAGE] I stopped in at the Cisco’s main San Jose campus a couple times in 2011 to get a demonstration of the Nexus 7000 family of chassis and NX-OS software that runs these behemoths. The hardware is impressive and the software is strategic in that it seeks to unify datacenter operations without dashing already deployed […]