Nathan Eddy

Workforce management solutions specialist Kronos announced the launch of Workforce Ready, a suite of cloud-based applications aimed at small and midsize businesses. The solution set provides companies with single-source access to real-time employee data, including a Time and Attendance feature designed to streamline time tracking, with automated collection of time and attendance information. Small business […]

An increasingly complex Web of security measures€”and threats€”is straining the IT infrastructure of small and midsize businesses, according to a survey of 571 IT managers and directors across North America, Europe and Australia. The survey, conducted for Web and data security firm Sophos by Vanson Bourne, found more than one-third (36 percent) of businesses struggle […]

While the focus of the tech media€™s attention is on Apple, with its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) kicking off with serious upgrades of its MacBook Air and MacBook Pro families, Dell also unveiled three Vostro notebooks€”the 3360, 3460 and 3560, sporting IT support and security features aimed at small and midsize businesses in need of […]

Storage memory specialist Fusion-io announced a partnership with networking giant Cisco to architect ioMemory into Cisco€™s Unified Computing System Server to amplify in-server performance in the UCS B-series blade server series. With ioMemory, the memory tier is designed to accelerate applications, allowing storage performance to be decoupled from the system€™s overall capacity. Fusion ioMemory products […]

Symantec, IBM and EMC continued to hold the lead in worldwide storage software, but the market€”which closed out the first quarter with revenues of $3.5 billion, up 3.3 percent from the same period last year€”showed signs of slowing, compared with the pace of growth since 2009, according to a report from IT research firm IDC. […]

As an increasing number of workers use mobile devices to perform work duties, IT leaders and application developers need to adapt, according to a study from IT research firm Gartner. Developers and businesses need to evolve mobile applications and interfaces as demand for business-to-business, business-to-employee and business-to-consumer explodes, Gartner says. €œThe release of the iPhone […]

With the rise of bring-your-own-device, or BYOD, initiatives and free, cloud-based file-sharing changing the way businesses are operating, IT administrators are largely unable to police the use of these tools within their organizations, according to the findings of a new survey released by SkyDox, a cloud-enabled file-sharing and collaboration company. While employees have embraced free […]

Google€™s Android leader Andy Rubin took to Twitter to brag about the success of the open-source operating system, boasting that there are more than 900,000 activations of Android per day. In what could be seen as an effort to steal some of Apple€™s thunder ahead of their Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this week, Rubin also […]

In the wake of a massive security breach on the business networking site LinkedIn, which resulted in the leaking of roughly 6.5 million user passwords and their subsequently being published on an unauthorized Website, the company has issued a blog post to answer some of the most frequently asked questions about the breach. The company […]

Google€™s Web browser, Chrome, is headed to rival Microsoft€™s latest operating system, Windows 8 Metro€”sort of. Google began work on a Metro-style enabled desktop browser, a version of Chrome that will run in both the Metro and desktop environments of Windows 8 on x86, back in March. The company didn€™t offer a specific release date […]

The worldwide disk storage systems market posted strong growth in the first quarter of 2012, according to IDC’s “Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker” study. The report found factory revenues jumped 7.1 percent year-over-year growth, totaling just under $6 billion, while the total disk storage systems market was up 6.8 percent from the same quarter […]

April and May were significant months for malware growth and increased spam and phishing attacks, as the volume of known malware swelled by more than a factor of 10, growing by 927.4 percent from April to May, according to German email security provider Eleven€™s “E-Mail Security Report” for June 2012. The volume of spam emails […]