Nathan Eddy

With offices becoming more decentralized as workforces become more mobile, collaboration is a key component of boosting business productivity. However, a survey of 1,400 business users across six continents by cloud-based document management software specialist KnowledgeTree found the process of creating and approving team-generated content is hobbled at the vast majority of organizations, despite that […]

Small and midsize enterprises in emerging countries are expanding and flourishing financially while their counterparts in the developed markets, while facing more difficult market conditions, said they are confident of an economic upswing in the near future, according to an Economist Intelligence Unit survey sponsored by enterprise application software provider SAP. The survey of more […]

While most of the media speculation around Apple’s Oct. 23 event has centered around the debut of a smaller version of iPad tablet, informally dubbed the iPad Mini, rumors are also circulating that Apple will introduce a 13-inch MacBook Pro notebook featuring the company’s high-definition Retina display. A report from Apple-centric blog 9to5Mac said the […]

The second worst-kept secret in the technology world this year, the launch of Apple’s latest tablet, the so-called iPad Mini, is widely considered to occur Oct. 23, a little more than a month after Apple took the wraps off this year’s worst-kept secret in technology—the iPhone 5. Rumors and speculation about the iPad Mini have […]

In an effort to make their companies more competitive and productive, owners of small and midsize businesses (SMB) are turning to mobile devices to ramp up efficiency, according to technology provider CDW’s 2012 Small Business Mobility Report, based on a survey of 752 mobile device users and IT professionals from U.S. small businesses across five […]

Online backup solutions specialist Carbonite announced on Oct. 18 that it acquired Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Zmanda, a provider of open-source and cloud backup solutions. The company’s products, which are aimed at small and midsize businesses (SMBs), include Amanda Enterprise, a network backup solution based on the Amanda open-source backup and recovery software platform. The acquisition, subject […]

It’s no secret that Apple and Samsung are warring over the design and functionality of their smartphones and tablet devices, with the latest victory handed down to Apple this summer when a California jury on Aug. 24 awarded the company $1 billion in its patent-infringement lawsuit against Samsung. This round, however, goes to Samsung, as […]

Hovering Above the Floor A view from above the floor in Council Bluffs, Iowa, shows the scale of the data center begins to take shape. Huge steel beams both support the structure and help distribute power. Switch It Up That’s a lot of networking: These Ethernet switches connect Google’s facilities network, and communicate with and […]

Apple’s not the only technology giant that knows how to be coy when it comes to upcoming product announcements. Google sent out a colorful press invitation illustrating the Manhattan skyline, but provided few details other than the date and time, Oct. 29 at 10 a.m. EST; the location, Basketball City at Pier 36 in New […]

Networking giants Cisco and Citrix announced an extension of their more than two-year desktop virtualization partnership to tackle the challenges of cloud computing, mobility and networking, hoping to take advantage of what they believe to be a wider technological transition into mobile- and cloud-based architectures. As part of the strategy, the companies intend to integrate […]

Revenue for the flash memory market by year-end is projected to decline to $24.3 billion, down 4.7 percent from $25.5 billion in 2011, according to an IHS iSuppli Mobile & Embedded Market Tracker Report from information and analytics provider IHS. The NAND segment this year will account for $20.8 billion and the NOR sector will […]

The rise of big data—a broad term that encompasses the mountain of information flowing into businesses—has posed particular challenges for organizations of all sizes, and investments in big data infrastructure and management is projected to drive $28 billion of worldwide IT spending in 2012, according to an Oct. 17 research report from IT analytics firm […]