Nathan Eddy

Global IT solutions distribution specialist and an operating group of Avnet, Avnet Technology Solutions, launched its Healthcare Analytics Platform, which will initially run HP’s HAVEn big data architecture. The platform enables a cohesive view of a patient, regardless of where the data is stored within a health care provider’s infrastructure. The HAVEn platform is designed […]

The worldwide storage software market increased 1.5 percent during the third quarter of 2013 compared to the same quarter of 2012, with revenue during the quarter totaling $3.47 billion, according to a report from IT research firm IDC. In a concurrent report, the firm found worldwide factory revenue for the high performance computing (HPC) technical […]

IT systems management software specialist Kaseya announced the launch of its BYOD Suite, a security and management platform aimed at businesses looking to adopt bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives. The technology for the solution was purchased by Kaseya earlier in the year in its acquisition of Rover Apps, and extends multiple corporate data sources to mobile users’ […]

Health care IT performance specialist IMS Health announced the availability of AppScript, a mobile health (mHealth) application designed to help health-care providers and health plans create proprietary formularies based on an objective assessment of health-care app functionality and value. The AppScript Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution classifies and evaluates more than 40,000 mobile health-care apps currently available […]

By 2017, new IT buying based on the Nexus of Forces will drive more than 26 percent of total enterprise software market revenue, up from 12 percent in 2012, representing more than $104 billion to new worldwide enterprise software revenue from cloud, information, mobile and social initiatives, according to a report from IT research firm […]

Overall federal IT security spending will rise from $5.9 billion in 2012 to more than $7.3 billion in 2017, and overall security spending has been trickling upward at an average rate of about 4 percent per year, according to two concurrent reports released by IT research firm IDC. The firm expects to see steady long-term […]

Object-based storage specialist Cleversafe expanded its capabilities for a wide range of storage applications and workloads by introducing two Slicestor models and a Cache Vault feature based on the company’s dispersed object-storage technology. Complementing the company’s existing 1440 model, the Slicestor 4100 model delivers 10 times the OPS of the 1440 model using solid-state disk […]

The Linux Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, announced the formation of the AllSeen Alliance, a consortium dedicated to advancing adoption and innovation in the “Internet of everything” in homes and industry. Technology research firm Gartner predicts the Internet of things–based on the idea that devices, objects […]

The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) announced its support for the 2013 Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) report, which outlines recommendations for health IT over the next decade. The report includes 10 recommendations intended to serve as a roadmap for health-care organizations, with the intention of facilitating improvement in electronic exchange of health-care […]

Virtual machine-based security platform developer FireEye is reaching out to small and midsize businesses (SMBs) with the launch of Oculus for SMB, which offers advanced threat prevention platforms for Web, email and mobile. With the FireEye NX series platform, SMBs have the ability to stop Web-based attacks that some traditional and next-generation firewalls (NGFW), and […]

The BBN Technologies division of intelligence systems and security specialist Raytheon and software-assurance tools and cyber-security solutions specialist GrammTech were awarded a $4.8 million contract under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Vetting Commodity IT Software and Firmware (VET) program. Under the program, the two companies said they intend to develop tools and techniques to […]

Mobile health (mHealth), adoption of the cloud in health-care industries and regulatory environments will be the key subjects in the health IT sector in 2014 and beyond, according to research firm Frost & Sullivan’s 2013 Search for Growth survey, which involved 1835 executives in more than 40 countries worldwide. The report predicted the rise of […]