Nathan Eddy

While the overall labor market in the U.S. continues to limp forward, the tech industry is showing more vigorous signs of growth, and in some places around the country where it wouldn€™t necessarily be expected, according to the March tech employment report from IT jobs specialist Dice. €œAfter two years of continuous improvement in recruitment […]

Customers who haven€™t yet preordered the latest version of Apple€™s iPad are going to have to wait a little longer to get one, as the company has sold out of its preorder units, which become available this Friday. The sell-out happened in every country where supplies of the new iPad were available, reports ComputerWorld. The […]

Intermedia, the largest Microsoft Exchange hosting provider, announced it is now offering a Microsoft Office 365 plan to its direct customers and advisor resellers. The Office 365 plan is in addition to the company€™s Office in the Cloud suite of plans. Used by 50,000 small and midsize businesses (SMBs) and more than 400,000 premium users, […]

Citrix announced details of its Solution Adviser SMB Specialist partner program, which includes a range of training and rewards programs and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) specialization. SMB Specialists are eligible for Citrix Advisor Rewards and can earn up to a 10 percent reward payment for registered deals they close. In addition, SMB Specialists are eligible […]

Employee negligence or maliciousness is the root cause of many data breaches, according to “The Human Factor in Data Protection,” a report released by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by cloud security specialist Trend Micro. More than 78 percent of respondents blame employee behaviors, both intentional and accidental, for at least one data breach within their […]

EMC subsidiary and data protection specialist Iomega announced the integration between Iomega network storage solutions and EMC Atmos, extending Atmos cloud-based data protection and sharing to Iomega’s network storage product offerings. The new integration gives small and midsize businesses (SMBs), remote offices and distributed enterprises access to any Atmos powered cloud around the world. The […]

Cornerstone OnDemand, a specialist in cloud-based talent management solutions, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Sonar6, another provider of cloud-based talent management solutions serving small businesses globally. Cornerstone said it will continue to offer and invest in Sonar6 solutions, but the companies will not integrate their products. Cornerstone […]

Acer Aspire S3-951-6646 ($799.99) Acer Instant On resumes your computing session in less than 2 seconds and from deep sleep in 6 seconds, thanks to the 20GB solid-state drive (SSD) that stores the current PC state just as you left it. HP Folio 13-1020US ($849.99) Featuring HP CoolSense technology and integrated Bluetooth, you can also […]

Data backup and protection specialist Quest Software (NASDAQ: QSFT) on March 8 announced the launch of NetVault Backup Capacity Edition, a new offering of the company€™s data protection technology featuring an alternative capacity-based licensing model designed for small and midsized businesses (SMBs).Quest said the new capacity edition, priced at $2,700 per front-end terabyte, provides businesses […]

Worldwide PC shipments are on pace to total 368 million units in 2012, a 4.4 percent increase from 2011, according to the latest forecast by IT research firm Gartner. In the report, PC shipments are forecast to see higher growth by the end of 2013, when shipments are expected to reach more than 400 million […]

Mobile traffic during the fourth quarter of 2011 increased 85 percent, indicating a dramatic rise in mobile use, according to results from cloud security company Zscaler€™s fourth quarter €œState of the Web€ security research report. Apple€™s iPhone and Google Android devices dominated mobile traffic, accounting for about 87 percent of such, while BlackBerry use fell […]

KineticD, known for its cloud backup and data recovery services for small and midsize businesses, announced the availability of KineticCloud Backup Suite for SMBs and partners. The platform offers online backup technology designed to protect the SMB environment securely, reliably and economically. Designed to ensure optimized data protection for PCs, Macs, servers and databases, KineticCloud […]