Nathan Eddy

NetZero Wireless, a subsidiary of United Online Inc. (NASDAQ: UNTD), announced the launch of NetZero 4G mobile broadband, protected Internet service for notebooks, iPads and other tablets, and netbooks. The service, which launches this week in more than 80 cities nationwide, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Miami, […]

Scale Computing, a developer and manufacturer of scalable, fault-tolerant storage systems for small and midsize businesses’ virtualization and disaster recovery needs, is partnering with Veeam Software, a provider of data protection, disaster recovery and management solutions for virtual data center environments. Veeam Backup & Replication provides recovery of virtualized applications and data for both VMware […]

Online payment solutions specialist PayPal announced PayPal Here, a mobile payments solution that allows small businesses to accept almost any form of payment. The new service includes a free app and fully encrypted thumb-sized card reader, which turns any iPhone, and soon Android smartphone, into a mobile payment solution. With PayPal Here, small businesses, service […]

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Well-known technology hubs, such as San Jose, Calif., as well as San Francisco and New York’s silicon alley rank highest in pay, versus smaller cities such as Phoenix, St. Louis and Tampa, Fla., according to CyberCoders, a worldwide recruiting firm. The study, which reveals which cities pay the highest average salary for technology jobs, ranked […]

More than 5,000 cloud computing job ads were posted online in the United States in February, according to Wanted Analytics, a specialist in real-time business intelligence for the talent marketplace. Hiring demand for cloud skills has grown drastically, up 92 percent, versus February 2011 and 400 percent compared with the same time in 2010. With […]

Small businesses are using a variety of technologies to back up data, including some antiquated methods that leave the backup process incomplete and susceptible to information loss, according to a study from Carbonite Inc. (NASDAQ: CARB), a provider of online backup solutions for consumers and small and midsize businesses (SMBs). The survey revealed some surprising […]

Cloud and IT monitoring software solutions specialist Zyrion announced the release of the Traverse Predictive Analytics Module that learns the component behavior pattern of IT services and helps isolate the underlying problem for performance degradation within distributed, heterogeneous cloud infrastructures. Last year the company launched the Data Capture and Processing Module for seamless monitoring of […]

IT teams will face significant monitoring challenges from multiple forms of cloud computing, as well as substantially increased bandwidth demands, Network Instruments reported in its “Fifth Annual State of the Network Global Study.” The research showed that 60 percent of those polled anticipate that half their apps will run in the cloud within 12 months, […]

Symantec announced the release of Data Insight 3.0, the latest version of its technology designed to improve information governance by providing intelligence into ownership and use of unstructured data, such as documents, presentations, spreadsheets and emails. The enhancements to Data Insight can help organizations transform storage operations and simplify information governance processes to reduce costs, […]

Disk-based data storage systems specialist Nexsan announced it has teamed up with Veeam Software, a provider of data protection, disaster recovery and management solutions for virtual data center environments. The two are aiming to deliver storage, backup and replication solutions that enable scalable data protection optimized for hypervisor-independent cloud computing. Nexsan’s platform is designed to […]