Cameron Sturdevant

VMware View 5 improves the end-user experience when employing PC over Internet Protocol display-compression technology by adding throttling that cuts back network usage. View 5 also added Persona, VMware’s entry into user-profile management, a much-needed feature to keep up in the competitive virtual desktop arena. View 5 is focused on improving the user experience, including […]

[WP_IMAGE] Here are some, “now you know” tidbits that I’ve gleaned from setting up and testing VMware View 5. Cameron’s Checklist of People You Need for a View Project: View project lead Desktop OS expert Desktop Apps experts Tablet and/or Smartphone experts (for View Client testing/roll-out) MS SQL Server -or- Oracle admin Network staff, traffic […]

[WP_IMAGE]Last year I got myself a pair of Isotoner SmartTouch gloves at Macy’s. I love these gloves and would get them again in a second. This year I got pitched on a couple of related touchscreen gifts from Newer Technologies: NuTouch Gloves and the NuScribe 2-in-1 touch screen stylus and pen.Before I relate my experience […]

[WP_IMAGE] BMC is using a simple browser-based form to let data center application owners provide basic configuration information such as network protocol and port use so that the operations team can more quickly generate dependency maps. Version 8.3 of Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping became available as a virtual appliance at the end of October. […]

[WP_IMAGE]I think Fremont, Calif. counts as being part of the Valley, so I was shocked to find out that Penguin Computing has an assembly line there. People actually assemble racks of high performance Penguin designed computers, along with high speed storage and network interconnects for both cloud providers and private data center users.As part of […]

[WP_IMAGE]While reliability and security topped the agenda at the Cloudbeat 2011 conference held this week in Redwood City, the big ideas on the first day were more about how cloud development is setting up a decade-changing stage for application development.Allan Leinwand, CTO, Infrastructure Engineering at game maker Zynga explained why the maker of Farmville uses […]

[WP_IMAGE]Glasses-free, 3D, full-motion video on a 4.3-inch screen looks pretty stunning.I didn’t get to watch the Captain America trailer long enough to see if the cell-matrix parallax barrier technology caused enough stress to bring on a headache. However, what I did see on an early prototype device was impressive full-motion 3D video on a 720p […]

For IT managers contemplating file sharing alternatives to their email system or content management platform, Egnyte’s Egnyte HybridCloud is worth consideration. A business-class file sharing tool, Egnyte HybridCloud uses local and cloud storage to store, share and back up files while also providing IT with centralized administrative control. The latest version, which became available on […]

[WP_IMAGE]A fledgling customer cloud standards advocacy group and a long-established vendor group “announced a collaboration that will hasten the development of industry standards for managing cloud computing environments.”I was very hot on the idea of a powerful collection of cloud consuming companies coming together in the form of the ODCA (Open Data Center Alliance). When […]

Mirage takes an unusual approach to desktop virtualization that is likely more suited to organizations that are wedded to their current desktop fleet and yet want to have a centrally managed virtual desktop environment. Wanova Mirage 3.0, released Nov. 8, attempts to ease the process by centralizing desktop workloads in the data center while offloading […]

[WP_IMAGE]I got a sneak peak demo of the DataSift social sentiment monitoring tool at eWEEK Labs San Francisco office earlier this week. On Nov. 16 the company launched in the US, making its Twitter stream analysis and reporting tool available via the cloud and sold by subscription.Basically, DataSift licenses the full data stream from Twitter […]

Robust Internet connectivity plus virtualization, along with a heavy dose of managed hosting experience equals infrastructure as a service, a utility model where compute, storage and virtual machine instances are available at a moment’s notice and paid for based on usage. Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is the granddaddy of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings and is […]