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Socializing in the Enterprise

December 17th, 2010 | No Comments

Social media tools that mimic Twitter and Facebook promise to bring team collaboration to corporate users. Getting users and applications connected in a secure, reliable stream can mean the difference between leading and being left behind in an increasingly social world. eWEEK Labs Technical Director Cameron Sturdevant looks at whats behind the emerging specifications that are bringing people, applications and actions together in social media platforms. – Status update services, sometimes called
microblogging, took off in 2010. A Pew Research Center study released on Dec.
8 revealed 8 percent of American adults who use the Internet also use Twitter.
Using social media tools in the enterprise pits open sharing against corporate
controls. It also o…

My Mac Windows Switch

April 13th, 2010 | No Comments

eWEEK Labs Technical Director Cameron Sturdevant’s year of using and covering Apple products in the enterprise has come to an end with a newfound respect for Mac hardware and the resistance of Mac OS X 10.6.3, code-named Snow Leopard, to hacks and viruses. For executives and high-value creative content users he sees Apple’s appeal. But as we enter the cloud computing age, Sturdevant is less enamored of fat clients of any variety for routine office workers.
– For just over a year I’ve used a variety of Apple
devices from the Xserve and Mac Pro to the iPhone and MacBook Pro and even a Mac
Mini as my primary work systems in a Windows-oriented IT shop.
I made the switch because Apple PCs and iPhones and now
iPads are coming into the enterprise. I wanted…

Apple iPad Is a Go for the Mobile Enterprise

February 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Apple’s iPad will be a tempting business tool for mobile professionals, claim analysts. Forrester Research analyst Ted Schadler said that the tablet will catch on among mobile professionals, who comprise 28 percent of the enterprise workforce. Corporate employees will buy iPads and then use them on the road as they travel from company headquarters to remote offices, or from one business meeting to the next. Schadler also believes the iPad could pressure Google to improve its Android development platform, setting up a potential duel between Google and Apple.
– Apple’s new iPad will be a tempting business tool for mobile
professionals, claim analysts who study technologies geared to boost enterprise
productivity.
Despite demonstrations from Apple CEO
Steve Jobs that portrayed the iPad as a media consumption device, eWEEK tech analyst Cameron Sturdevant…

Switch to Mac Cheat Sheet

November 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Switchers – those who have decided to leave the Windows world for Max OS X – can get up close with Parallels Desktop Switch to Mac Edition as eWEEK Labs Technical Director Cameron Sturdevant takes a few minutes to delve into his review of the product. Sturdevant reviewed the product when it released in August 2009 and has a few tips for IT managers and end users who have decided to take the Mac plunge but who also still need to use one or more Windows-only applications.
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eWEEK at 25: Virtualization’s Impact Spans Decades

November 6th, 2009 | No Comments

Virtualization may seem new, but it was around when eWEEK (then PC Week) made its debut. The roots of today’s data center virtualization are easily traced to early mainframe systems of the 1970s and ’80s. eWEEK Labs’ Cameron Sturdevant connects the dots between his current virtualization coverage and his network management past.
– Virtualization
may seem new, but it was around when PC Week made its debut. The roots of
today’s data center virtualization are easily traced to early mainframe systems
of the 1970s and ’80s.
I
started working in the IT industry in 1987, supporting PC-based emulation
software that replaced ter…

LABS GALLERY: Dell R710 PowerEdge Has Virtualization Squarely in its Sights

October 19th, 2009 | No Comments

The Dell R710 PowerEdge data center server racks up compute and memory in a tidy package, offering UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) as an option instead of BIOS to help with embedded system adminstration. Adding UEFI to physical systems could be a stepping stone toward more effective management of physical and virtual system resources.
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LABS GALLERY: Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) Hardware

October 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Cisco puts physical brawn behind the stateless computing brains of its Unified Computing System platform. eWEEK Labs lays out the physical components used in our exclusive review of Cisco’s UCS. A variety of configurations are possible in UCS; this gallery shows only components used during the tests.
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LABS GALLERY: Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) Hardware

October 9th, 2009 | No Comments

LABS GALLERY: Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) Software

October 9th, 2009 | No Comments

The Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) Manager is the administrative overseer of the hardware and virtual components that make up the platform. The data center tool is the management heart of Cisco’s UCS. Physical equipment, virtualized server resource, LAN, SAN and all management actions are controlled through the UCS Manager, which can be run as a GUI-based tool or from a traditional CLI. Here are some of the components used during eWEEK Labs’ exclusive review of the newly minted Cisco UCS.

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LABS GALLERY: Cisco UCS (Unified Computing System) Software

October 9th, 2009 | No Comments

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Snow Leopard Server Provides Powerful Feature Updates

September 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Citing significant upgrades to the Podcast Producer, Wiki, and Mobile Access components of Mac OS X Server Snow Leopard, reviewer Cameron Sturdevant (eweek.com) recommends that IT managers â€œput Snow Leopard Server on their short-term evaluation list when considering system updates in creative departments where Mac systems predominateâ€ or in any enterprise â€œwhere high-value content is produced.â€

LABS GALLERY: Snow Leopard Server Adds Effective Workflow Enhancements

September 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Snow Leopard Server, the Mac OS X version of the Apple operating system for Xserve and other Mac hardware, adds effective workflow enhancements for Podcast Producer 2 and other new features. Here’s a look at some Snow Leopard Server and Mac client operations to help you get a feel for what’s new.

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LABS GALLERY: Parallels Eases PC-to-Mac Transition with Parallels 4.0 Switch to Mac

September 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

A special edition of the Parallels virtualization tool #151Parallels Desktop 4.0 Switch to Mac #151makes it a snap to move all the applications and data installed on a physical PC to a Windows virtual machine running on an Apple Mac OS X system.

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LABS GALLERY: Lenovo T400s Thin and Light Notebook Gains Touch-Screen Hardware

September 21st, 2009 | No Comments

Lenovo’s ThinkPad T400s workhorse laptop can now be equipped with a $400 touch-screen that enables finger taps and multitouch gestures to put the user in direct contact with applications.

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LABS GALLERY: Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac SP 2 Provides Small Productivity Boost

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2 is a facelift focused on the PowerPoint component of the productivity suite. In this version, Microsoft Word for Mac gets a bug fix for a formatting problem that occurred when numbered lists were copied into another document, and Entourage for Mac #151the suite’s much-maligned e-mail client #151gains automated features for connecting to Mobile Me and Windows Live Hotmail accounts. None of the Entourage changes pull the product out of the ditch it’s in, however #151it’s still an inferior version of Outlook. Here is a look at some of the tweaks made to the Microsoft tools designed to work on the Apple platform.

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