Nathan Eddy

While 90 percent of large businesses report experiencing major IT incidents throughout the year, only about half have a team dedicated to handling such occurrences, according to an xMatters survey of 400 IT professionals. The report, conducted by Dimensional Research, found nearly two-thirds of IT departments have target resolution times when an outage occurs, but […]

Application platform software specialist WaveMaker announced the availability of Hybrid Mobile App Development as part of its Rapid Application Development (RAD) platform. With this zero-code solution, enterprises write once, and WaveMaker automatically generates a desktop, Google Android and Apple iOS app that conforms to platform standards, and can also leverage device capabilities such as camera, […]

Cloud adoption rose 71 percent from 2014 to 2015 across all industries despite lingering major gaps in security, including ways of mitigating risk such as the adoption of SSO technology. These were some of the findings from a Bitglass study based on analysis of real-world traffic data from more than 120,000 global organizations across 20 […]

Nearly two-thirds (64 percent) of consumers say they are unlikely to shop or do business again with a company that had experienced a breach where financial information was stolen, according to a worldwide survey of 5,750 consumers in Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom and the U.S. The survey revealed almost half (49 percent) […]

Startup ODH launched as a health care analytics solutions provider with the goal of enhancing the quality of mental health treatment and patient care through technology. While patients with complex medical conditions comprise about 5 percent of the U.S. population, they are estimated to represent nearly 50 percent of overall medical expenditures, according to a […]

With Millennials becoming the largest generation in the U.S. workforce in 2015, IT professionals must gear up to accommodate this growing group’s needs in the New Year. According to a survey of 1,010 individuals ages 13-24 by nonprofit IT trade association CompTIA, Millennial employees expect a heavier reliance on IT support in 2016. Despite growing […]

American consumers are increasingly opting to embrace a lifestyle that can be facilitated with your mobile phone, according to a Deloitte survey of more than 2,000 U.S. consumers. This year’s survey results showed a dramatic increase in the use of mobile phones to make in-store payments with a nearly four-fold increase from 5 percent in […]

The number of remotely monitored patients grew by 51 percent to 4.9 million in 2015 as the market entered a growth phase fueled by rising market acceptance in several key verticals, according to a Berg Insight report. This number includes all patients enrolled in mobile health (mHealth) care programs in which connected medical devices are […]

Verizon awarded a total of $6 million to twelve winners of its 2015 Powerful Answers Award contest, a year-long global challenge to discover and help bring to market technologies that show promise for addressing challenges in the emergency response, transportation and Internet of things (IoT) categories. Three startups with potential were named $1 million winners, […]

BlazeMeter, a provider of open source continuous performance testing software, announced integration with AppDynamics software, which provides application performance intelligence, to help developers address issues that impact application performance with accuracy and consistency. Users of the integrated products can now incorporate critical metrics from AppDynamics into their BlazeMeter test scenarios to identify problem areas faster. […]

Brother International announced its next generation of workgroup scanners, the ADS Desktop Scanner Series. The company also has expanded its Professional Document Scanner (PDS) Series to include a model with an integrated flatbed. The ADS series features two-sided scanning; high-capacity automatic document feeders; flexible network and local connectivity options; mobile device compatibility, and computer-free scanning […]

While public cloud usage is growing, specifically for business applications, many IT organizations remain in the dark about how to allocate cloud costs and consumption back to the business. This was among the findings of a Dimensional Research survey of nearly 350 IT professionals, which was sponsored by hybrid cloud analytics software specialist Cloud Cruiser. […]