Nathan Eddy

Drobo announced the launch of its Drobo Mini with Solid State Disk (SSD) drives, which are available in three capacity bundles of 1 terabyte (TB), 2TB and 4TB starting at a suggested price of $1,199. Available through the company’s online store or select channel partners, the drives are designed to be portable, rugged and expandable, […]

Fitness device startup ActvContent announced the launch of Sync, the company’s health, safety and fitness smartband, on Indiegogo, where the firm is offering the device for $69 in an effort to raise $50,000 in funding. The Sync is a wearable device that comes in both adult and child sizes and connects through Bluetooth with the […]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has launched a new initiative from the Office of Informatics and Technology Innovation (OITI) called openFDA, designed to make it easier for developers, researchers and the public to access and use the many large and important health data sets collected by the agency. While this information has always been […]

Health care provider UnitedHealthcare is making its free mobile app, Health4Me, which gives all users access to an array of health care information, including the ability to review market average prices for more than 520 medical services, available to all consumers. Health4Me is designed to help all consumers make more informed decisions regarding their care, […]

Business management software specialist NetSuite posted better than expected second-quarter earnings this week, with total revenue up 30 percent from last year to $131.8 million. On a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis, net loss for the second quarter of 2014 was $23.2 million, or 31 cents per share, as compared with a net loss […]

Users bringing downloaded apps or content with embedded security exploits into their organization, as well as malware infections, are top bring-your-own-device (BYOD) security concerns, according to a report from Vectra Networks. The second edition study, independently conducted by the Information Security Community on LinkedIn, collected responses from more than 1,100 IT security practitioners, finding 60 […]

Almost one in four (24 percent) system administrators are dealing with streaming platforms like Pandora and Spotify, which are wreaking havoc with application performance problems, according to Ipswitch’s second annual survey of more than 250 systems administrations from across the United States. The survey revealed one in two system administrators find video platforms such as […]

BYOD, Malware Among Top Issues Affecting IT Security by Nathan Eddy Security Incidents Affect Nearly All Organizations Almost all (96 percent) of survey respondents said they experienced at least one significant security incident in the past year, while nearly four in 10 (39 percent) said they had experienced two significant incidents and 16 percent experienced […]

Small business employees in July saw their average paychecks rise for the first time this year, with the average paycheck increase coming on the heels of a profitable first half of the year for small businesses, according to SurePayroll’s Small Business Scorecard. The average paycheck was up across the board regionally—0.4 percent in the Midwest, […]

Consultant satisfaction, as measured across multiple criteria, ranked much higher than satisfaction rates for health IT employees and the global workforce as a whole, according to a survey of 446 health IT workers from consulting and staff augmentation firm Healthcare IT Leaders. The survey, which examines job satisfaction and career motivations for health care IT […]

Network security specialist Fortinet’s latest firewall appliance, the FortiGate 5144C, exceeds 1 terabit per second throughput performance and offers 10GbE, 40GbE and 100GbE connectivity options, which it claims is the fastest available on the market. Built for large-scale enterprise data center and carrier-class environments, the FortiGate 5000 series includes fully redundant, hot-swappable power supplies, fans […]

Better known for popular consumer electronics items like televisions and DVD players, Panasonic is also a major player in the rugged and semi-rugged notebook and tablet space, and its latest entry is an updated version of the Toughbook 53 notebook. Key improvements include the Windows 8.1 Pro Update 64-bit operating system or Windows 7 Professional, […]