Nathan Eddy

WatchGuard Technologies, a provider of business security solutions, today unveiled its latest small-business firewall, the XTM 33. Ideal for midmarket businesses with five to 30 users, the XTM 33 appliance provides enhanced network protection in an all-in-one, small form factor security appliance. Features include defense-in-depth protection, such as identity-based firewalling, plus WatchGuard’s proxy technology. The […]

Whaleback Managed Services, a specialist in managed business services, announced it is extending its unified communications mobility capability within its CrystalBlue Cloud-based Managed Voice Services to tablets and smartphones, by leveraging the Bria 3 softphone from long-standing partner CounterPath, a provider of desktop and mobile voice over IP (VOIP) software products and solutions. With the […]

Video managed services provider Yorktel introduced the Video Cloud Connect Suite, including Video Cloud Connect and Video Cloud Connect+ cloud-based video conferencing services. Combining Yorktel’s design and video expertise, the Video Cloud Connect offerings integrate video hardware and software, networking technologies and managed services to provide solutions for “any-to-any” communications. The Video Cloud Connect Suite […]

While overall anticipated IT spending has grown two percentage points to reach 42 percent, most sectors saw significant increases in spending optimism, according to the latest CDW IT Monitor. Growing optimism and greater anticipation of increased IT investments among IT decision-makers propelled the company’s six-month growth outlook composite score to 71, jumping three points since […]

Computer maker Apple released Final Cut Pro X v10.0.3, the latest update to its professional video editing application, which introduces multicam editing that automatically syncs up to 64 angles of video and photos, advanced chroma keying for handling complex adjustments right in the app and enhanced XML for a richer interchange with third-party apps and […]

Apple overtook Samsung in smartphone shipments in the last quarter of 2011, according to data from mobile analyst firm Juniper Research. Almost 25 percent of the 149 million smartphones shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter were iPhones. However, while Samsung lost its top spot to Apple, the Korean giant has increased its market share fourfold […]

Despite perceptions that companies and IT leaders are hesitant to embrace the consumerization of IT, a global survey by managed solutions specialist Avanade found companies are in fact embracing the change, and it is executives at the highest levels in organizations leading the charge. Based on a survey of more than 600 senior business and […]

Schedulicity, a specialist in online appointment scheduling for small, appointment-dependent businesses, announced the results of its business and economic outlook study for 2012. Among survey respondents, fully 91 percent indicated they expect their business to perform better than it performed in 2011, while only 2 percent predict negative business results. More than 47 percent expect […]

Traffic visibility solutions specialist Gigamon announced that it has expanded its portfolio of solutions to further help enterprise managers to gain visibility of all traffic traversing their networks. The launch of two products, the GigaVue-TA1 and the GigaPort-Q02X32 H Series line-card, which combine to create an aggregation solution, are designed to address the challenge of […]

Small businesses are increasingly becoming educated about the benefits cloud computing holds for their companies, according to a report from Fonality, a business communications company. Fonality released the results of a survey conducted by Webtorials, which measured 2012 communications goals and challenges for small to medium-size businesses (SMBs). The “2012 Small and Medium-Sized Business Communications […]

A new rule imposed by Twitter that would see certain comments from particular countries censored is drawing the ire of many Twitter users. Twitter has said it could block a Tweet in a country where what was being said is illegal-in accordance with that country’s laws-but the rest of the world would be able to […]

Austin, Texas To address a workforce challenge, Austin established a program that puts college enrollment managers into public schools to guide the choices made by students. The program has helped boost the graduation rate for low-income students 14 percentage points to 75 percent. Oulu, Finland Despite the financial crisis that hit in 2007, Oulu managed […]