Nathan Eddy

Dell Software announced the launch of AppAssure 5.4, the latest version of the company’s all-in-one backup, replication and disaster recovery software platform. AppAssure 5.4 features a slew upgrades designed to improve replication, optimize performance and reporting, and broaden platform support. The latest version is also designed to offer a simplified user experience to help meet […]

The worldwide wearable computing market, widely referred to as “wearables,” is finally expanding beyond early adopter status to more functional and stylish lifestyle accessories that are making their way onto the pages of consumer magazines and daytime talk shows, according to a report from IT research firm IDC. The wearables market took a huge step […]

Digital business leaders are using gamification to add value to the product offer, to increase employee engagement and to drive crowd-sourced innovation, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. Gamification– the use of game thinking and game mechanics in non-game contexts to engage users in solving problems–has become an essential part of any […]

The growing proliferation of smartphones and tablets, coupled with the preference to use a single device, is expected to fuel growth in the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) market over the next six years, and is expected to reach $238.39 billion by 2020, according to a study by Grand View Research. Midsize to large businesses accounted for more […]

Worldwide PC shipments totaled 76.6 million units in the first quarter of 2014, a 1.7 percent decline from the first quarter of 2013, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. In the U.S. market, PC shipments totaled 14.1 million units in the first quarter of 2014, a 2.1 percent increase from the same […]

The latest Small Business Optimism Index from the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) rose two points in March to 93.4, mostly reversing the February decline but failing once again to breach the 95 ceiling that has capped the Index during the recovery. Twenty-two percent of all owners reported job openings they could not fill […]

Fewer gains in IT hiring occurred than expected in the first quarter of 2014, with just 35 percent of IT leaders indicating that hiring of full-time and contingent IT workers increased in the first quarter of 2014, according to the findings of a survey from IT staffing and services firm TEKsystems. These numbers fell short […]

Small business transactions remained at high levels in the first quarter of 2014, continuing the growth trend that began in the first quarter of 2013, according to a report from business-for-sale online marketplace BizBuySell. Strong small business transaction volume, median asking price continuity, and median sale price indicated that sellers are enjoying healthy demand for […]

Transaction volume for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the software industry declined 4 percent on a quarter-to-quarter basis, though this represented a 14-percent increase compared to the first quarter of 2013, according to midmarket investment bank Berkery Noyes. Facebook also completed the industry’s second largest deal in the first quarter of 2014 with the acquisition […]

A regional collaboration among nine health systems and medical groups in the Northwest will provide more than a million patients in Oregon and Southwest Washington with electronic access to the notes their providers include in medical records. For its part, Kaiser Permanente Northwest begins making clinician notes available to its members across the region starting […]

Select patient services are highly valued and yet severely underserved, underutilized or nonexistent. However, those patients who receive services like them and greatly value them, according to an Accenture survey of 2,000 patients in the United States. The survey found that those who don’t receive them want to—and expect pharmaceutical companies to provide them either […]

The majority of U.S. consumers would be likely to text with a live customer support agent, and the same percentage would prefer texting instead of their current method of reaching customer support, according to a customer support preference study by HeyWire Business, a mobile messaging service. The survey results indicated there is strong interest by […]