Nathan Eddy

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser reversed years of declines and posted a net gain of 1.2 percent usage share globally over the past five months, according to a report from measurement firm Net Applications. As of March 2012, IE claimed 53.83 percent of Web browser market share, followed by Firefox with 20.55 percent, Google’s Chrome […]

More companies are turning to the cloud for data storage and backup, according to new research from cloud storage and backup service provider Symform. According to the survey, nearly 40 percent of respondents currently use a cloud-based solution for either primary or secondary backup. However, two-thirds of respondents ranked the costs of cloud storage or […]

Corporations in the U.S. and Europe will move an additional 750,000 jobs in IT, finance and other business services to India and other low-cost countries by 2016, according to a new report from business advisory and operations improvement consulting firm The Hackett Group. However, the study notes that levels of additional offshoring in these areas […]

Apple€™s new chief executive Tim Cook took the top spot in a survey of highest-rated CEOs compiled by jobs and career site Glassdoor. Cook received a 97 percent approval rating; by comparison, when Steve Jobs stepped down from the post in August 2011, his cumulative approval rating was 97 percent, though his rating between March […]

Aiming to boost sluggish sales of Android-based tablet devices in the face of Apple€™s iPad juggernaut (the latest version sold 3 million units its first weekend), Google may be planning to partner with hardware manufacturers to produce co-branded tablets that would be sold through a special online store, according to a report in The Wall […]

IT teams from midsized U.K. and U.S. businesses polled still spend more than half (56 percent) their time on server management and troubleshooting in a typical month, and only 28 percent on strategic, “value-added” activities, according to a survey released by cloud computing specialist Rackspace Hosting. Despite the widespread availability of cloud and managed hosting, […]

A third of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) allow employees to select their own method of backup for their data at work, essentially passing the buck when it comes to data protection, according to the findings of a survey conducted by online backup service provider Mozy. The corresponding report noted that the tendency for small […]

Worldwide software as a service revenue is forecast to reach $14.5 billion in 2012, a 17.9 percent increase from 2011 revenue of $12.3 billion, according to a new report from IT analytics firm Gartner. The report projected SaaS-based delivery would experience healthy growth through 2015, when worldwide revenue is projected to reach $22.1 billion. Researchers […]

Data storage specialist Drobo is teaming up with Acronis, a provider of disaster recovery and data protection solutions, to deliver a backup and recovery solution for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). The joint solution incorporates Drobo€™s business storage arrays as well as backup and recovery solutions from Acronis. A recent global threat awareness survey from […]

Online backup and disaster recovery solutions provider Zetta unveiled the next generation of its flagship cloud service, DataProtect 3.0. The platform brings cloud data protection to small to midsize businesses (SMBs) in a single managed service that requires no appliances. DataProtect 3.0 is designed to simplify and help automate backups of IT assets, and enables […]

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Google users can sign up for its new Account Activity feature that sends them a link to a password-protected report with insights into their signed-in use of Google services and summarizes the data associated with each product they use when signed in to their accounts. Google said the feature is designed to offer users transparency […]