Cameron Sturdevant

[WP_IMAGE] After what seems like years, I’ve follwed eWEEK Labs Editor-in-Chief Jason Brooks into Amazon’s EC2. I’m setting up the database needed to run the exercises in “Baseball Hacks-Tips & Tools for Analyzing and Winning with Statistics” written by Joseph Adler and published by O’Reilly. My virtual machine is running in a micro instance of […]

[WP_IMAGE] As it stands today, unfriending or unfollowing someone on one of my social networks seems akin to breaking up with a high school sweetheart. Therefore, I’d like enterprise social networks to enable what I’ll call “provisional following.” In other words, I’d like to be able to specify the how long I’ll follow a person, […]

[WP_IMAGE] The magic of information technology comes with a price tag. If your IT organization has taken a couple of steps down the virtualization road, you’re likely coming to that part of the trail where you need to know “how much is all this costing?” and “is the cost being shared equitably across the business?” […]

To understand how virtual machine resources are being used in your organization, follow the money. Assigning costs to IT assets in the virtual world is so different from the physical-only model that data centers are leaving behind that special tools must be brought in to sniff out the money trail. Thus far, the drastic cost […]

Thin-client hardware devices are gaining processing power, codec smarts and management tools that combine with speed boosters from virtual desktop platforms and are mounting a serious challenge to the PC refresh treadmill. Even more extreme slimming called a “zero client” is stripping out any local operating system, thus reducing the attack surface, power consumption and […]

[WP_IMAGE] I’m wrapping up a look at thin client computing and the one thing that’s clear is that “thick” client PCs are doing pretty well by just playing possum. The sheer technology momentum behind the desktop PC means that increasing processor power and graphics capabilities along with dirt cheap storage go a long way towards […]

/imagesvr_ce/eweek/eweek_labs/2011/10/2011-10-20-quake-289×300.png A 4.2 magnitude earthquake centered in Berkeley, Calif. shook the Bay Area 3 p.m. Regardless of where your data lives, the “big one”–in any number of forms, is coming. Contingency planning will make all the difference in the world. For example, few things focus the mind more than an earthquake. Not that the 4.2 […]

[WP_IMAGE] VMware is marching down the management path by integrating previously separate tools and introducing new suites. Released today, vCenter Operations Management Suite, vFabric Application Management Suite and IT Business Management Suite should help enterprise users maintain efficient use of IT infrastructure. vCenter Operations Management Suite (previously called vCenter Operations Manager) now combines previously separate […]

[WP_IMAGE] Cloud computing moves the “do I care” technical conversation to new and different places, but at the end of the day someone still has to care about network and application performance at the physical level. Today Network Instruments announced Observer 15, the latest rev of the useful network monitoring platform. This is a tool […]

Collaboration squarely meets the “consumerization of IT” when users leave corporate tools such as email to use more convenient and effective applications with which to share files and work together. The growth of inexpensive, easy-to-access software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings such as Dropbox and Box.net have traditional email and FTP on the ropes. The concept of anytime, […]

[WP_IMAGE] If your employees have a growing problem of managing log on credentials across the cloud-based applications used at your company, you might be interested in the briefing notes I took when meeting with Okta this morning. The name of the game is subscription-based, identity management for cloud applications like Salesforce.com, Workday or Concur. The […]

[WP_IMAGE] Even the most airy cloud is, at the end of the day, made up of very solid steel, copper, and silicon that channel electricity. And monitoring the working condition of the server systems that live in giant data centers is of greater concern for IT managers as virtualization drives up consolidation ratios, putting an […]