Author Archives: Cameron Sturdevant

About Cameron Sturdevant

Cameron Sturdevant is the Director of eWEEK Labs. Follow Cameron on Twitter at csturdevant, or reach him by email at csturdevant@eweek.com.

Microsoft System Center 2012 RC–part 1 SC VMM

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 … Continue reading

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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization-Servers 3.0 Released

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 … Continue reading

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Taming Online Identity Management

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 … Continue reading

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VMware, Microsoft Raise VM Management Questions

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 … Continue reading

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Cisco Nexus 7009–Rise of the Little Giant Machine

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 … Continue reading

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VMware View 5 Testing Notes

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 … Continue reading

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Last Minute Tech Gadget Gifts

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: … Continue reading

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BMC Continues Discovery, Dependency Maps with ADDM 8.3

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 … Continue reading

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Penguin Computers, Assembled in Silicon Valley

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 … Continue reading

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Reliable, Secure, Not Seen Before: CloudBeat 2011

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. … Continue reading

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