Nathan Eddy

Wireless connectivity and networking specialist Linksys launched a line of managed switches that are available in a 28- and 52-port rack mountable chassis, with and without Power over Ethernet (PoE) Plus functionality. The switches feature port authentication and MAC-based port security, requiring clients to authenticate themselves before any data is passed, while advanced Dynamic Host […]

Cloud database and platform-as-a-service technology specialist Caspio is targeting the health care IT industry with the release of HIPAA Enterprise, a HIPAA-compliant edition of its rapid application development platform. The company’s platform features a point-and-click application builder, which allows business users to create custom cloud applications without any coding. Potential application examples include online patient […]

Almost three-quarters of Americans worry about the quantity of personal information available online, according to a survey conducted by Rad Campaign, Lincoln Park Strategies and Craig Newmark of craigconnects. More than half of the 1,007 Americans surveyed said they feel they cannot trust social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to keep their contact […]

Businesses in the United States appear to be split on the issue of adopting software-defined networking (SDN), according to a Juniper survey of 400 IT decision-makers working in education, financial services, government and health care industries. SDN architectures are designed to decouple network control and forwarding functions, enabling network control to become directly programmable and […]

Predictive analytics specialist PhysIQ has launched a platform designed to detect subtle changes in vital signs and other health indicators helpful to both clinicians in managing patients who are suffering from chronic illness, as well as consumers interested in tracking their own health and fitness levels. The platform constructs a personalized baseline norm for each […]

IT management software specialist SolarWinds announced the latest release of its Network Performance Monitor (NPM), the company’s flagship network performance monitoring platform. The new edition adds enterprise-class deep packet inspection (DPI) and analysis technology to troubleshoot network performance on application latency. The NPM provides a view of network fault, performance, availability, traffic and latency by […]

Managed, cloud and hybrid hosting services provider Codero Hosting released its Proactive Managed Hosting service, which leverages an automation hosting layer, and augments it with a technical team of dedicated experts. Designed for use by e-commerce, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and Web-dependent businesses, the platform can help businesses free up IT resources by having the hosting provider […]

The worldwide smartphone market grew 23.1 percent year over year in the second quarter of 2014, establishing a new single quarter record of 295.3 million shipments, according to a report from IT research firm IDC. Strong demand overall provided a boost for the majority of handset manufacturers, while emerging markets supported by local vendors continued […]

Forty percent of state and local (S&L) government employees use mobile devices for some work-related tasks, and 65 percent of S&L IT managers expect the number of mobile workers to increase in the next five years, according to a report commissioned by Citrix and Mobile Work Exchange. Currently, 17 percent of S&L employees are eligible […]

Supply chain management software is on track to reach $10 billion in revenue in 2014, a 12.2 percent increase from 2013, and the highest annual growth rate since 2011, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. While the report noted the SCM software market is nearing the point at which more than 60 […]

Financial service organizations are hiking IT operational budgets by 5 percent at the median and capital budgets are up 2.5 percent, while another sector showing above-average growth in IT operational spending is health care, with budgets rising 3.6 percent at the median, according to a report from Consumer Electronics. Banks, insurers and other financial service […]

Network performance visibility specialist Empirix is looking to help small businesses clean up their conference call quality with the launch of conference bridge monitoring application that duplicates customers’ experiences during conference calls, then using them as the key measurement of quality. The solution verifies conference server availability, performance, uptime and participants’ voice quality and provides […]