Jason Brooks

Come this June, in enterprises across the country, I expect that Treos will begin to wither in the eyes of one-time loyalists, and that erstwhile thumb-keyboard addicts will start to judge their BlackBerrys to be significantly sourer. That’s because June is the month in which Apple has promised to ship an enterprise and third-party application […]

The latest iteration of VMware’s Virtual Infrastructure, the server virtualization platform comprising ESX Server 3.5 and Virtual-Center 2.5, boasts a set of hardware support enhancements, scalability improvements and new automation provisions that stand to enforce the popularity of VMware’s already market-leading virtualization offering. VMware has taken impressive steps toward broadening the range of equipment that […]

Today, Google rolled a much-anticipated new component into its family of online applications: Google Sites. The new service is the fruit of Google’s 2006 purchase of hosted wiki provider JotSpot, and I’ve been looking forward for some time now to see what the search giant would do with its purchase, and to see how well […]

When I read about the recent Princeton University paper on subverting hard drive encryption by fishing for encyption keys in system RAM, I got to wondering about the vulnerability of my own Ubuntu-powered notebook computer. After all, support for out-of-the-box hard drive encryption is one of the reasons why I opt for Ubuntu for my […]

Today Microsoft laid out a major new interoperability initiative that’s meant to “increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice for developers, partners, customers and competitors.” During the press conference that Microsoft executives Steve Ballmer, Ray Ozzie, Bob Muglia and Brad Smith held this morning, much was made about the […]

For the past several months, anyone who’s asked me about the latest big new thing in IT has gotten an earful about Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2. With this service, which I reviewed last year, you pay Amazon 10, 40 or 80 cents an hour (depending on the RAM, storage and CPU) and you […]

Microsoft’s Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has hit the RTM milestone, so if you’ve been waiting for SP1 to begin your organization’s move to Vista, now is the time to start turning over your upgrade engines. On the other hand, if the conventional wisdom around the SP1 marker isn’t enough to get your Vista testing […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-through: Windows Server 2008 eWEEK Labs Walk-through: Windows Server 2008 – Server Core Windows Server 2008 may be deployed in a new, stripped-down Server Core configuration, which significantly reduces the attack surface of systems hosting certain Windows Server roles. eWEEK Labs Walk-through: Windows Server 2008 – Windows Deployment Services I installed a couple […]

“Faster” and “slimmer” are two adjectives to which few software product upgrades can lay legitimate claim-particularly if the software upgrade in question is a Windows operating system. And, yet, Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008, which recently hit the RTM (release to manufacturing) milestone, demonstrates that Microsoft is capable of producing a lean, mean server machine-and doing […]

Wireless handset and infrastructure giant Nokia has announced plans to acquire Trolltech, a purveyor of application frameworks for desktops and mobile devices. Trolltech is perhaps best known for the QT framework, which forms the core of the open-source KDE (K Desktop Environment). For Nokia, the primary motivation behind the Trolltech pickup appears to be Qtopia, […]

Today, Sun Microsystems turned heads by announcing plans to lay down seven and a half percent of its current market capitalization to acquire open-source database vendor MySQL AB. Why did Sun do it? Look no further than the other major acquisition announced today, in which Oracle declared victory in its months-old bid to purchase middleware […]

Apple’s subnotebook wunder-machine is nigh. I’ve been waiting for an ultralight Web and writing machine for a long time now. So, should I run out and pant outside my local Apple store until the first units arrive? Based on the information available right now, let’s weigh the pros and cons … Pros: The Macbook Air […]