Nathan Eddy

Remote connectivity, collaboration, and support solutions provider LogMeIn announced a preview release of AppGuru, a product designed to help IT professionals secure and manage the influx of business and employee-introduced cloud applications in the workplace. The preview of AppGuru gives IT pros the ability to manage LogMeIn’s collaboration apps, join.me and Cubby, as well as […]

More companies are showing dissatisfaction with legacy on-premise phone systems or private branch exchanges (PBXs) that are not designed for today’s mobility-centric, cloud-based work places, particularly as more attractive options like adopting bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies and cloud-based applications continue to gain traction, according to a new study. Seventy percent of IT directors, facility managers and […]

Geeks More Secure About Their Superman Pajamas, Star Wars Memorabilia by Nathan Eddy Geeks Take Pride in Comic Books, Video Games The survey found 90 percent would take pride in the books or comic books they read, and 77 percent in the video games they play. Pull Those Superman PJs Out of the Closet Holy […]

IT management software specialist SolarWinds is going after the small and midsize business (SMB) cloud market in a big way with the $120 million cash acquisition of N-able Technologies, a provider of cloud-based remote monitoring and management (RMM) and service automation software for managed service providers (MSPs). The company said it expects the acquisition to […]

Cloud-integrated storage solutions specialist TwinStrata launched CloudArray 4.5, the latest iteration of its CloudArray software, which is designed to streamline management, increase control and reduce the need for separate backup software or disaster recovery strategies. The latest version of the platform includes a new, on-demand disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) offering for VMware users […]

Data governance software specialist Varonis announced the release of DatAnywhere, which extends the usability of corporate file-sharing infrastructure to enable traditional file servers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices to behave like a cloud-based service, such as Dropbox. DatAnywhere, which is available for Windows, Mac OS X, iOS and Google Android clients, includes file synchronization with […]

Customers are happier with telecommunication services and technologies than they were a year ago, but they are not so pleased with their Internet service providers, a new report has found. The annual Information Sector report from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) found that inaugural measures for the Internet service provider (ISP) industry found a […]

Enterprise file sharing and synchronization specialist Egnyte announced its mobile data management suite, designed to offer enterprises control over corporate data through a variety of device and file management strategies. The suite is designed to give enterprise IT departments the ability to allow employees to use their own notebooks and mobile devices in the work […]

Mobile security cloud service provider Marble Security, formerly known as IronKey, announced the release of its cloud-based mobile security service that protects the mobile perimeter of an organization against cyber-attacks and data loss before breaches can occur. The service, which is available for Apple iOS, Google Android, Mac OS X and Windows, secures all of […]

The worldwide semiconductor industry witnessed a slowdown during the second half of 2012 on weak consumer spending across PCs, mobile phones and digital televisions, as well as in the industrial and other market segments, according to research firm IDC’s Semiconductor Application Forecaster (SAF). Worldwide semiconductor revenues decreased by 2.2 percent year-over-year to $295 billion in […]

Nearly half of small-business owners are not completely satisfied with their current domain name, and with hundreds of millions of Websites already online, chances are great that someone else has already snapped up a small-business owner’s first choice domain name, according to a study by Wakefield Research. The survey, conducted among 500 small-business owners (companies […]

While worldwide IT operations management software revenue increased again in 2012, the market’s top four vendors—IBM, CA Technologies, BMC Software and Hewlett-Packard—actually surrendered market share as a new generation of competitors grew significantly faster than the market, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. Worldwide ITOM software revenue totaled $18 billion in 2012, […]