Nathan Eddy

10 Important Things to Know About Smartphone Thefts by Nathan Eddy How Do They Get Stolen? Forty-four percent of smartphones were stolen because the owner left the phone behind in a public setting, 14 percent were stolen from a car or house that was burglarized, and 11 percent were stolen off the victim’s person—out of […]

Worldwide revenue for home health care devices and services will rise to $12.6 billion in 2018, up from $5.7 billion in 2013, according to a report from IT research firm IHS Technology. Medical providers’ efforts to reduce costs by taking a more holistic approach to health care will spur a doubling in the global market […]

The worldwide supply chain management and procurement software market grew 7.3 percent to $8.9 billion in 2013, as the supply chain continues to be a key source of competitive advantage in driving business growth objectives, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. SAP, which has been the market share leader within the aggregated […]

Business and IT leaders at midmarket firms appear to prioritize network connectivity options, resiliency levels and the level of control over the data center facility when making decisions about new data center facility and co-location investments, according to a survey conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Digital Realty Trust. The online survey of 1,030 […]

Software and technology supplier to the biometric-authentication industry, NexID Biometrics, which offers liveness detection software for fingerprint-sensors on mobile devices, announced the launch of its Mobile Live Finger Detection (LFD) application for the Google Android operating system. The company’s Mobile LFD solution for the Android platform enables manufacturers of mobile devices and fingerprint-sensor technology, as […]

The availability of capacity and performance management skills for horizontally scaled architectures will be a major constraint or risk to growth for 80 percent of major businesses by 2016, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. Agile infrastructures demand that infrastructure and operations (I&O) managers acquire the performance management skills present only in […]

Half of all small business owners in the United States feel business conditions are good or excellent, the most since at least 2010, and 44 percent expect to grow their business in the next 12 months, up from 37 percent two years ago, according to a survey released by Citibank Small Business Pulse. The results […]

Security and device management specialist MobileIron announced additional Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) capabilities to its portfolio, including integrations with Splunk software to support threat detection, problem resolution and strategic decision-making. The company’s Help@Work platform provides a way for employees to share Apple iOS device screens with help desk personnel, while Tunnel delivers per app virtual […]

Cloud-connected security and storage solutions expert Barracuda Networks announced the availability of Barracuda SSL VPN version 2.5, designed to provide employees with improved remote access to internal Web applications and files from anywhere, including mobile devices like iOS, Windows phones and Android devices, without having to deploy or support full virtual private network (VPN) clients. […]

The worldwide business intelligence (BI) and analytics software market, which consists of BI platforms, corporate performance management (CPM) suites, analytic applications and advanced analytics, totaled $14.4 billion in 2013, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. The report identified a number of factors, which slowed market growth last year, which remained in the […]

This will not come as a surprise to most IT security people: Most enterprises lack the tools and business intelligence to protect their critical information in an optimal manner, according to new research conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Websense. The main problems are a critical deficit of security solution effectiveness, a disconnect […]

Federal agencies are making progress on a series of key IT initiatives–consolidation, virtualization, cloud computing, remote access and infrastructure diversification–but are leaving a significant amount of money on the table, according to a report from the public-private partnership MeriTalk. The survey of 300 federal network managers, underwritten by Brocade and conducted in February 2014, advised […]