Nathan Eddy

Cloud security specialist Porticor announced on Oct. 30 the availability of its cloud-based data-encryption solution, Virtual Private Data (VPD), which is designed to protect public, private and hybrid cloud data while stored and in use. The offering is currently available directly from Porticor through the company’s Website. The VPD is deployed in the cloud and […]

As the popularity of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives grows, security specialists are partnering with network-access specialists to offer comprehensive protection to organizations considering BYOD policies but unsure of the security and implementation challenges. On Oct. 30, secure network access firm Bradford Networks and network security specialist Fortinet announced a partnership to offer a BYOD platform that […]

Network performance specialist Riverbed Technology announced on Oct. 29 the acquisition of Opnet Technologies, a provider of solutions for application and network performance management, for $1 billion in cash and stock. The acquisition will enable Riverbed to extend its network performance management (NPM) business into the application performance management (APM) market, where Opnet specializes. APM […]

Trimble announced on Oct. 29 details on its Yuma 2 rugged tablet, which offers a 7-inch capacitive multi-touch screen and measures 6.3 inches by 9.6 inches. Expected to be available early in the fourth quarter, the tablet weighs less than 3 pounds, and meets stringent MIL-STD-810G military requirements for drops, vibration and humidity. The device […]

Chip maker Intel announced Oct. 29 that it was shipping the industry’s first solid-state drive (SSD) line with a 20-nanometer (nm) NAND flash memory process, the 335 Series. The 6G-bps Serial ATA drive, which boasts a 240GB capacity that performs 500MB-per-second sequential reads and 450MB-per-second sequential writes, is Intel’s first SSD to use the latest […]

First, the white edition of Apple’s much-hyped, much-debated iPad Mini tablet sold out during the preorder period, and now it appears the black version of the iPad Mini has also sold out, with shipment dates for both models now pushed two weeks back from the initial Nov. 2 shipment dates. Apple’s white products typically generate […]

Hurricane Track for iOS (Free) The app offers eight different live radar animations, local satellites, local forecasts and hazards, and future projected paths and potential cloud formations that can evolve into larger storms. NOAA Now (Free) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) provides the latest information on severe weather, including hurricanes and mainland storms, […]

A new era of supercomputing was launched today with the debut of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Titan, a system capable of running through more than 20,000 trillion calculations each second (20 petaflops) by employing a family of thousands of Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs), first created for computer gaming. According to the ORNL, it […]

Cloud computing and data storage specialist GreenQloud and database software developer Xeround announced a partnership to run their zero-management cloud database solution for MySQL applications on GreenQloud’s 100 percent renewable energy-powered infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). GreenQloud offers scalable high performance servers and on-demand storage with Amazon Web Services (AWS)-compatible applications program interfaces (APIs) and a user-friendly management […]

Search engine giant Google announced the cancellation of a hotly anticipated media event in New York City, originally scheduled for Monday, Oct. 29, at 10:00 a.m. EST, as Hurricane Sandy barrels its way up the East Coast. In a short message sent to media representatives, the company explained the hurricane was the reason for the […]

The first batch of iPad Mini tablets, the 7-inch device Apple introduced earlier this week, sold out quickly, based on the company’s Website, which swapped out the shipment date of Nov. 2 just 20 minutes after the tablets went on sale, according to multiple reports. The black version of the device is still listed as […]

With the economy still struggling, the technology sector has been one of the few consistent bright spots on the employment landscape, and a report from the TechAmerica Foundation, using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, found the U.S. high-tech industry added nearly 100,000 jobs between January and June of 2012, a 1.7 percent […]