Nathan Eddy

Many enterprises possess an unrealistic confidence surrounding the security of their networks, with more than 65 percent of IT/security professionals contacted for a survey by network visibility and security intelligence specialist Landcope not thinking or being unsure that they had experienced any security incidents within the last 12 to18 months. Areas of blind spots within […]

Print services specialist Ricoh has developed a cloud-based platform to help small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and educational organizations lower costs and improve productivity by helping their mobile workers gain remote access to content wherever they happen to be. The Integrated Cloud Environment (ICE) is a single interface connecting mobile workers to cloud services for […]

Small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) are increasingly embracing mobile and social platforms for improving operational efficiencies and promotion, according to the latest findings from the Local Commerce Monitor, research firm BIA/Kelsey’s ongoing study of the advertising behaviors of midmarket companies. In particular, mobile payments are gaining significant traction with SMBs, with 40 percent of those […]

Lacking a new product launch in March to help spur shipments, Apple’s iPad saw a lower-than-predicted shipment total of 14.6 million units for the most recent quarter, down from 19.5 million in the first quarter of 2013, as worldwide tablet shipment growth slowed in the second quarter of the year, according to IT research firm […]

FusionStorm, a provider of IT consulting, technology solutions and cloud and managed services, announced it is selling off its managed IT services and cloud solutions business to Synoptek, a specialist in these two areas. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed, but a joint statement from the companies said the partnership will help meet growing […]

With technology giant Microsoft struggling mightily to gain a foothold in a tablet market dominated by Apple’s iPad devices and a slew of low-cost tablets running Google’s Android operating system, the company slashed prices on its Surface Pro tablet by about $100 for both the 64GB and 128GB models. Among the areas that will see […]

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) contracts often have ambiguous terms regarding the maintenance of data confidentiality, data integrity and recovery after a data loss incident, which leads to dissatisfaction among cloud services users, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. Buyers of commercial cloud services, especially SaaS, are finding security provisions inadequate, and these ambiguous terms […]

While the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) movement is in full swing, immature policies are putting sensitive organizational and employee data at risk, and the initiative’s value for many organizations is currently mediocre at best, according to a survey of more than 1,500 IT leaders and 2,000 IT professionals conducted on behalf of Teksystems. More than half of […]

Large North American financial institutions will spend $73.8 billion on IT improvements across software, hardware and professional services in 2014 as firms transition investments from “run the bank” to “change the bank,” according to technology market research and consulting firm Technology Business Research’s (TBR) Banking and Financial Services SourceIT report. A concurrent report from the […]

Data security solutions specialist Protegrity announced general availability of release 6.5 of its Data Security Platform, which further expands the company’s Big Data Protector capabilities to include support and certification on many Apache Hadoop distributions, including IBM Big Insights, Pivotal, Hortonworks, Cloudera and MapR. Utilizing encryption for file or volume protection, Vaultless Tokenization on the […]

Despite a clear understanding of the benefits and drivers from the user community, companies have not mobilized many applications, and a large percentage are delaying full deployment of enterprise apps on mobile devices due to concerns around cost, complexity and security, according to a survey of 300 IT decision makers in the United Kingdom and […]

The sheer diversity of applications for the Internet of Things–the network of physical objects that contain embedded technology to communicate and interact with their internal states or the external environment–is so broad that it is easy to become overwhelmed and yet find nothing that appears to relate directly to one’s existing business, according to a […]