Nathan Eddy

CommVault announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft to offer a cloud storage capability that combines Simpana software with the flexibility of storing data on the Windows Azure cloud platform. The offering provides enterprises with a solution to archive, index, search and access massive amounts of data for long-term retention and compliance. The combined data management […]

Small-business owners were planning to hire at this time last year, but the majority (80 percent) haven€™t hired a single employee in the first three months of 2012, according to the latest Manta SMB Wellness Index, which also found new business activity fell 30 percent in the first quarter of 2012, compared with the same […]

So long, MacBook Pro, 17-inch version. The largest (and most expensive) member of the MacBook Pro family, which starts at $2,499 and can run up to $4,100 for a top-of-the-line model with a 512GB solid-state drive, may be headed for extinction due to lackluster sales. That€™s the word from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who […]

Information and communication technology specialist Fujitsu announced the development of software offerings that help customers use big data. The new lineup consists of parallel distributed processing and complex event-processing products, standard technologies in big data applications, and products to employ big data in a range of uses. The offerings include two new products: Interstage Big […]

Worldwide unified threat management revenue reached $1.2 billion in 2011, a 19.6 percent increase from 2010 revenue of $972 million, according to IT research firm Gartner. Fortinet remained the top vendor in revenue in 2011, accounting for 19.6 percent of the market, followed by SonicWall with 13.3 percent and Juniper Networks with 11.8 percent. CheckPoint […]

SiteLock, a provider of Website security solutions for online businesses, is partnering with CloudFlare, a Web performance and security company, to deliver Website performance and security tools for online small and midsize businesses (SMBs). The announcement comes as SiteLock makes its Website security and monitoring solution available on CloudFlare’s application platform. CloudFlare offers the SiteLock […]

As anticipation mounts for the next generation of Apple€™s iPhone, the rumor mill is in full tilt, with speculation growing that the smartphone will be hitting store shelves in October. Also fueling speculation is a report from the Korean IT news site that suggests the iPhone 5 will be fabricated using liquid metal components. €œ[The] […]

Although Apple founder Steve Jobs roundly dismissed any notion of a smaller version of the iPad, reports are bubbling up again that an Apple tablet with a screen size closer to 7 inches is in the works. Media reports are coming from unnamed sources in Taiwan and China, including a report from Chinese portal NetEase […]

Le Musée des Égouts de Paris (Paris Sewer Museum) Want to get down and dirty in Paris? Then take a tour of the city’s ancient sewer system—popular since the 1800s, apparently. Photo credit: Vincent de Groot Cité des Sciences et de lIndustrie (City of Science & Industry) The biggest science museum in Europe, it features […]

As part of National Stress Awareness Month, which kicked off April 1, GFI Software announced the results of its IT Admin Stress Survey, which found that 67 percent of IT administrators have considered switching careers due to job stress. Managers, users (employees) and tight deadlines were cited as the biggest job stressors. Survey results also […]

Remote monitoring and management automation software specialist N-able Technologies announced the release of Report Manager 3.2, a customizable RMM reporting tool that gives managed service providers (MSPs) insight into the IT infrastructures of their small and midsize business (SMB) customers. Report Manager 3.2 is integrated at both the data and user-interface level with the N-central […]

Seventy percent of organizations storing third-party data are not “very confident” that the sensitive data stored within their organization is protected, according to a survey conducted by Varonis, a provider of data-governance software. With 80 percent of organizations surveyed storing sensitive information from customers, clients, vendors and business partners, more than half were only “fairly […]