Nathan Eddy

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F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), a specialist in Application Delivery Networking, announced improved live virtual machine migration capabilities for customers leveraging NetApp unified storage and VMware virtualization solutions. The solution combines the companies’ technologies to help customers migrate live virtual machines between data centers without any perceivable disruption to users or applications. F5 has continued […]

Fidelis Security Systems, a specialist in network visibility, analysis, and control solutions, announced the SSL Decoder within Fidelis XPS, which provides the ability to assess the authenticity of a Secure Socket Layer certificate. Fidelis also introduced the SSL Inspector 10G, which enables the XPS Deep Session Inspection architecture to detect threats in SSL-encrypted content on […]

Motorola Mobility (NYSE: MMI) shareholders have approved the sale of the company to Google, a move that clears one hurdle out of the search giant’s efforts to grow its mobile-computing capabilities. However, it will be federal regulators who have the final word on whether the deal will go through, and they have yet to make […]

While deployment of full or complete unified communications solutions in North America is low, adoption of its individual components is actually rather high, according to AMI-Partners’ “2011-2012 North America SMB Unified Communications Overview.” More than half of small and midsize businesses (with one to 999 employees) are using at least one individual UC component, rather […]

While they use social media personally and believe it affects their businesses, the majority of small-business owners don’t know how to use the new networks to build their companies, according to a social media study of small businesses released by Social Strategy1, which mines social media for business intelligence, and OfficeArrow, an online information network […]

nCircle, a provider of automated security and compliance auditing solutions, announced the release of PureCloud, a network security scanning service aimed at small and midsize businesses. PureCloud combines enterprise-class security technology with a user-friendly browser-based scanning service. The service can scan both internal and external networks without requiring any hardware or software to be deployed. […]

Digital storage solutions specialist Western Digital (NYSE: WDC), announced the release of the WD Sentinel DX4000, a network storage solution aimed at small and midsize businesses. The DX4000 includes the Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials operating system software and the Intel D525 Dual Core Atom CPU. The DX4000 offers centralized shared storage and automatic […]

A study from digital business analytics firm comScore showed AT&T leading the U.S. business ISP market with 20 percent of all browser-based Internet page views (i.e., traffic) in September 2011, followed by Verizon with a 12 percent share of the market. CenturyLink, which merged with Qwest in April 2011, ranked as the third largest business […]

Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia’s French division manager let slip a revealing piece of news to the Parisian daily Les Echos, saying the company was prepping a Windows-powered tablet for next summer. “In June 2012, we will have a tablet that runs on Windows 8,” Paul Amsellem told the French newspaper. A company spokesperson soon sought […]

Dell Kace announced the availability of its new K-Series Advanced line of appliances aimed at midsize businesses with 1,000 to 3,500 end-point systems. The K-Series Advanced Appliances include the K1100-ADV for systems management, and the K2100-ADV for systems deployment. The line features quad-core Xeon processors, RAID 5 configuration, high speed drivers and redundant power supplies. […]

Small businesses are becoming more comfortable with social media marketing and are using it more when engaging with customers, according to survey data from marketing specialist Constant Contact. The Fall 2011 Attitudes and Outlook Survey also reports that small businesses still rely heavily on in-person interactions and events in addition to email marketing and Website […]