Nathan Eddy

Results from a survey conducted by Dell Cloud Business Applications and Techaisle show adoption of cloud business applications is on the rise among small and midsize businesses. As SMBs assess which cloud applications make the most sense for their businesses, the survey indicated deployment services and application integration are critical for success. The survey, which […]

Hard-drive manufacturer and storage solutions provider Western Digital (NYSE: WDC) announced the availability of its third-generation S25 SAS hard drives, serving the enterprise server and storage market. Shipping this week, the 2.5-inch, 10,000 rpm, S25 with SAS 6G bps interface hard drives are available in capacities of 300GB, 450GB, 600GB and 900GB. The hard drives […]

Storage specialist Nexsan launched a line of solid-state enhanced unified storage systems, known as the NST series. In addition to providing both file-mode (network-attached storage, or NAS) and block-mode (iSCSI), the NST series combines solid€“state storage with Serial ATA (SATA) and SAS drives via Nexsan’s FasTier acceleration technology. FasTier automatically and intelligently uses the speed […]

As the tech world gets ready for Apple’s launch of the iPad 3, a national study of small and midsize business (SMB) owners reveals how critical the iPad and other mobile devices have become to this hardworking market segment. The Business Journals survey shows that iPad use has nearly quadrupled among SMBs over the past […]

Apple revealed that more than 25 billion apps have been downloaded from its App Store by the users of the more than 315 million iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices around the globe. The 25 billionth app downloaded, “Where’s My Water?” (free version), was downloaded by Chunli Fu of Qingdao, China. As the winner of […]

Microsoft plans to launch the Small Business Competency within the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN). The Small Business Competency, which Microsoft said would launch in June, will showcase the expertise of partners that provide the most current Microsoft technology solutions to help small businesses with their individual business needs. The new competency, designed and based on […]

WatchGuard Technologies, a specialist in business security solutions, added to its small and midsize business (SMB) and branch-office offerings with two unified threat management (UTM) appliances€”the XTM 25 and XTM 26. Aimed at small businesses, wireless hotspots and branch offices, the XTM 25 and 26 appliances offer Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) inspection, voice over […]

Its a Pad, Pad, Pad, Pad World Tablets were an unavoidable presence at the conference, with lots of attendees holding up the devices to capture video or photos from the show floor. Face Time With Facebook In his keynote address, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor discussed the company’s plans to push a mobile payment platform across […]

Network security and data protection solutions specialist SonicWall, launched its Mobile Connect client app for Google Android smartphones and tablets. The app is available as a free download via the Android Market and provides users of Android-based smartphones and tablets with network-level access to corporate, academic and government resources over encrypted Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) […]

Vocus a provider of cloud-based marketing and public relations software, announced that it has acquired iContact, a specialist in cloud-based email and social marketing software. iContact is used by more than 70,000 organizations to create and publish professional-quality emails designed to engage, educate and retain customers. With this acquisition, email will become the latest addition […]

BARCELONA, Spain€”Mobile technologies specialist Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) announced that its Snapdragon processor will be joining Microsoft’s Windows on ARM developer seeding program. The company is working with Microsoft to provide test PCs to select developers to test and optimize apps for forthcoming Snapdragon-powered Windows on ARM PCs and tablets. The invitation-only program will combine a […]

BARCELONA, Spain €” Trend Micro Inc., a specialist in cloud-based security software and services, released research revealing fundamental differences in attitudes between senior business roles and senior IT roles in Europe and the United States. When asked to rank operating systems for their security and manageability, Apple€™s iOS fared best, followed by BlackBerry in second […]