Nathan Eddy

To help midmarket companies tap big data’s potential, Connotate Inc., a provider of solutions that help small and midsize businesses (SMBs) monitor and collect data and content from the Web, announced a partnership with Information Evolution Inc. IEI customers can keep their databases updated with information from Web sources leveraging Connotate’s Agent Community data extraction […]

Master data management (MDM) is critical to achieving effective information governance, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner, which noted failure to manage information accurately has been the root cause of several incidents, including the leak of sensitive information to WikiLeaks, and can be fatal to the success of MDM programs. Gartner estimates […]

Houston Houston’s high-demand tech jobs include .NET developers, SharePoint developers and process engineers. In addition to technical jobs, this city also saw an increase in support positions, including business analysts, administrative assistant positions and financial analysts. San Jose, Calif. With a 100 percent increase in technology jobs from 2010 to 2011, San Jose—home to tech […]

IT organizations will have to deliver on multiple priorities without an increase in their IT budget, as CIO IT budgets are expected to be flat, increasing just 0.5 percent, with declining IT budgets in North America and Europe, according to a global survey of CIOs by tech industry research firm Gartner’s Executive Programs. Forty-six percent […]

The high upfront cost of video conferencing can be a significant hurdle to small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) looking to invest in video conferencing infrastructure, and so they often have to make do with consumer-grade services such as Google Hangouts or Skype. To help bridge the gap between these services and expensive telepresence solutions, CounterPath […]

The United States remains the global leader in supporting science and technology research and development, but only by a slim margin that could soon be overtaken by rapidly increasing Asian investments in knowledge-intensive economies, according to a report by the National Science Board, the policymaking body for the National Science Foundation. The report comments on […]

The current mindset regarding solid-state disk (SSD) drives is that they are extremely expensive, but the reality is that both SSD drives and systems have dropped in price significantly, making them a viable option for select applications in today’s IT environments. That’s according to a report from disk-based data storage systems provider Nexsan, which released […]

Storage specialist PureSilicon announced the launch of a line of enterprise-focused storage devices designed to give IT administrators high-performance options for power users. The Kage Series comprises the Kage K1 USB flash drive-a thin (4.5 mm) USB 3.0-based SSD drive with a design emphasis on portable performance and capacity aimed at mobile enterprise and prosumer […]

Despite generally healthy growth in the overall IT jobs market, IT workers hoping to improve their standard of living in 2012 will not likely find relief through annual salary raises, according to the Computer Economics “2012 IT Salary Report,” which found IT organizations are planning to hand out average raises of 2.8 percent this year. […]

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, a non-profit international consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information space, launched an open standards initiative to enhance the portability of cloud applications and services. The OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) Technical Committee will […]

Oracle held the top spot in the business analytics software market during the first half of 2011, with 20 percent global market share and 17.9 percent semiannual year-over-year growth, according to a new study from IDC. The research firm’s newly launched Worldwide Semiannual Business Analytics Tracker shows that Oracle’s closest competitors (SAP, IBM, SAS Institute […]

Despite being owned by Microsoft, the company’s mobile Windows Phone operating system still doesn’t have an application by voice over IP (VOIP) provider Skype, but that will change soon, Microsoft’s Skype division Vice President Rick Osterloh promised in an interview during last week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Some analysts are predicting the […]