Nathan Eddy

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within cloud computing, announced a new membership level and working group designed to benefit the growing needs of cloud computing among small and midsize businesses (SMBs). Launched April 24, the CSA SMB Membership […]

Dell unveiled a portfolio of mobility solutions aimed at businesses with bring your own device (BYOD) environments, including solutions to streamline enterprise mobility management, endpoint security enhancements to improve IT efficiency and productivity, and partner program enhancements. The Dell Mobility Solutions platform enables secure access to enterprise applications and data from employees’ personally-owned devices for […]

Properly implemented hosted virtual desktops (HVDs) can increase security and help organizations and infrastructure leaders meet compliance requirements, according to a report from IT research firm Garter. One of the most commonly cited motivations for implementing HVDs is increasing the security of end-user computing, according to Gartner. HVD is a technology that enables client computing […]

Data loss and threat prevention specialist Sophos introduced the latest version of its security app for Google Android devices, Sophos Mobile Security, which is offered for free in its standalone version at the online Google Play store. As part of the upgrade, the platform now includes spam filter capabilities for text messages and calls. The […]

The vast majority (81.4 percent) of IT security staff think that employees tend to ignore the rules that IT departments put in place, and more than half (52.2 percent) of the same respondents said they believe that employees would not listen more even if IT directives came from executive management, rather than IT, according to […]

Technology organizations are among the most frequently attacked by cyber-criminals and the majority of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks—89 percent—are associated with tools developed and disseminated by Chinese hacker groups, according to cyber-security specialist FireEye’s “The Advanced Cyber-Attack Landscape” report. The report found 184 nations house communication hubs, or command-and-control (CnC) servers, with Asia and […]

WD, a subsidiary of storage specialist Western Digital, announced the release of the WD XE, a 2.5-inch, 10,000-RPM Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drive, now available mounted in a 3.5-inch WD performance adapter to provide a solution for legacy data center storage systems. Designed for data centers migrating from legacy drives nearing the end of […]

Iconic German auto manufacturer Volkswagen and iconic U.S. technology giant Apple are teaming up to offer fans of both companies’ products the best of two worlds—later this year, the iPhone will interface with Volkswagen’s Beetle and Beetle convertible models through a specially developed app and a docking station. The app, docking station and iBeetle made […]

The worldwide enterprise software market grew 3.6 percent year over year, reaching a total market size of $342 billion in 2012, according to the latest results from IT research firm IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker, which was in line with IDC’s previous forecast of 3.4 percent but less than half the growth rate experienced in […]

Digital media sales software specialist Merchant Atlas announced the beta launch of Smart Leads, a platform as a service designed to leverage big data and machine learning to deliver merchant leads to content publishers. The Smart Leads platform collects, cleanses and interprets local merchant data, assigning each lead a quality score. The overall Merchant Atlas […]

Worldwide semiconductor capital equipment spending totaled $37.8 billion in 2012, a 16.1 percent decline from 2011, as wafer-level manufacturing underperformed the market in 2012, pulled down by weakness in lithography and deposition, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. Applied Materials reclaimed the top spot in the market based on its relative strength […]

Global mobile devices per household—outside of smartphones with a mobile data plan–will increase by more than 8 percent annually through 2016, while 60 million WiFi-only devices (mostly tablets) per year will be added to the household around the world, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner. As the use of multiple connected devices […]