Nathan Eddy

Mobile file sharing and collaboration solutions specialist Accellion announced the launch of kiteworks content connectors for Google Drive for Work and Microsoft OneDrive for Business, enabling universal, secure access to enterprise content, whether stored inside or outside the corporate firewall. The complete list of kiteworks content connectors includes Microsoft SharePoint 2007, 2010, 2013, SharePoint Online, […]

The number of technology transactions rose in the second quarter of 2014, increasing 87 percent over the second quarter of last year, while a total of four transactions in excess of $1 billion closed, according to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The software sector remains at the forefront of deal activity but has traditionally been […]

Cyber-threats, data breaches and high-risk vulnerabilities have continued to dominate the first half of 2014, with attacks affecting consumer’s personal information, included theft of data such as customer names, passwords, email addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth, according to a report from Trend Micro. The data breaches and Distributed Denial of Service […]

Cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) platform developer Practice Fusion announced it has acquired patient-doctor communication specialist Ringadoc. The company offers an automated, cloud-based answering service that allows doctors to access and respond to after-hours messages through a Web browser or Android or Apple mobile application, for a starting price of $69 per provider. Ringadoc, which […]

In spite of all the risks incurred by allowing foreign devices to access company data, a mere 39 percent of respondents work under the restrictions of a bring your own device (BYOD) policy, according to a survey by Software Advice. An additional 20 percent of respondents said they don’t know if they do or not, […]

Backup and data protection solutions specialist Intronis, which works through the IT channel, announced complete Bare Metal Restore (BMR) is now available as part of the company’s ECHOplatform and flat-fee unlimited cloud and unlimited local storage pricing plan. Available at no additional charge to Intronis channel partners, the new BMR functionality offers complete physical-to-physical (P2P) […]

More than half of workers surveyed by LogMeIn and Ovum are seeing an increase in the sheer number of meetings they are expected to attend, with two-thirds of these workers indicating that at least half of those meetings are not of value. Among the key findings were that virtual meetings–collaboration sessions where one or more […]

Data management and analytics software Lavastorm added features to extend the capabilities of its analytics engine including the ability to extract data from Hadoop and MongoDB, a NoSQL database. The new capabilities are part of the latest round of updates to the company’s Analytics Engine, which gives business analysts self-service control over complex data so […]

Nearly one-quarter (24 percent) of hospitals now outsource clinical documentation audit, review and programming, and by the third quarter of 2015, 71 percent of hospitals plan on having an international classification of diseases (ICD) services partner help them adjust and survive under the new codes, according to a Black Book survey of 650 hospital technology […]

Health IT specialist Royal Philips and management consulting, technology services provider Accenture announced that they have developed proof of concept software connecting a wearable display to Emotiv Insight Brainware that could ultimately give more independence to patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative diseases. When patients lose muscle control and eye-tracking ability, they […]

Application networking specialist A10 Networks and Internet threat detection firm Webroot announced A10 would integrate the Webroot BrightCloud Web Classification Service into the company’s Thunder Application Delivery Controller (ADC) product line. The BrightCloud Web Classification Service enables network and security vendors to help enterprise customers protect users against Web threats and meet regulatory compliance requirements. […]

Worldwide IT spending is forecast to increase by 4.5 percent in 2014 at constant currency, or 4.1 percent in U.S. dollars, with a significant proportion of this growth still being driven by smartphones, according to IT research firm IDC. Excluding mobile phones, IT spending will increase by just 3.1 percent this year in constant currency […]