Jason Brooks

This latest release, which is also known by the Toy Story-inspired name “Squeeze,” will play well in server deployments that draw on open-source components, which the Debian project has a knack for packaging up for easy installation over one of the project’s repository mirror sites. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Tasktop Pro 1.8 stitches together application-lifecycle-management systems with the Web-browsing, document, calendar and e-mail activities that form the context of a specific task. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Organizations with compute capacity to spare can sell it to buyers looking to the cloud to perform short-term compute tasks at lower costs. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Today at its Lotusphere 2011 event in Orlando, IBM announced tech preview of LotusLive Symphony, a Web-based office app duo to extend its Lotus Symphony productivity suite. I reviewed the desktop-bound edition of Symphony a few months back, and Andrew Garcia took on the LotusLive online collaboration service. It’s interesting to see IBM add a […]

Microsoft’s WebMatrix is a freely available development tool that lowers the barriers to creating Websites atop the company’s Windows operating system and IIS Web server tandem, both in terms of locating and installing needed components, and coding data-driven Websites. Predictably enough, WebMatrix fills out the Windows and Internet Information Services stack with Microsoft’s SQL Server […]

In 2007, I wrote a column titled, “It’s the directory, stupid,” in which I took the various corporate and community backers of Linux to task for failing to come up with an Active Directory equivalent for their chosen operating system platform. Since Active Directory arrived in Windows 2000, Microsoft’s directory offering has been a major […]

In our cover story in the January 3rd issue of eWEEK, Cameron Sturdevant took another crack at the topic of the consumerization of the enterprise, this time by drilling down on the integration issues involved in rolling out Twitter-style microblogging servicesor functionality in a business setting. The issue gets to the heart of the challenges […]

Convirture 2.0 Unlocks Virtualization Potential of Linux Operating Systems by Jason Brooks Management Console Convirt 2.0 Enterprise provides administrators with a straightforward Web interface for carrying out the configuration operations required for deploying virtual instances in production. Converting Red Hat VM The product didn’t recognize RHEL’s VM format, although I found a conversion script on […]

Cameron Sturdevant has been with the Labs since 1997, and before that paid his IT management dues at a software publishing firm working with several Fortune 100 companies. Cameron also spent two years with a database development firm, integrating applications with mainframe legacy programs. Cameron’s areas of expertise include virtual and physical IT infrastructure, cloud […]

Enterprise microblogging services can offer an organization’s users a new way of collaborating with one another, of keeping tabs on important company information, and of staying up to date on the activities of partners, customers and others outside the organization. Here are some factors to consider when evaluating one of these services. 1. Desktop app […]

Latest Enterprise Linux OS from Red Hat Shines in Server Room Roles by Jason Brooks Virtualization Host Install Option I was pleased to find an easy virtualization host option in the RHEL 6 installer—something I missed in recent tests of Fedora 14. Virtualization Tools The graphical tools that ship with RHEL 6 have improved over […]

Convirture’s vCenter workalike builds on the virtualization foundation offered by Linux server operating systems such as those from Red Hat and Ubuntu, with an easy-to-use Web-based management interface and separate open source and enterprise product options. Read my full review at eweek.com.