Nathan Eddy

SAS This software firm, headquartered in Cary, N.C., offers perks such as on-site health care and a state-of-the-art gym. SAS topped the list for the second year running. Google Pay hikes and bonuses are a key draw for the Silicon Valley-based search engine giant, not to mention having the cache of working for one of […]

Attacks are becoming more difficult to defend against and are expensive to mitigate, with traditional safeguards falling short, according to a worldwide study. The security study-whose results were announced by application delivery networking specialist F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV)-measures the effects of increasingly complex network and application attacks on enterprise organizations, and details the security practices […]

Disk-based storage systems provider Nexsan announced the latest member of its E5000 family of network-attached storage (NAS) systems, the E5510. Offering more than 1PB of capacity in a small, 27U of rack space, the E5510 combines support for both asynchronous and synchronous replication and includes the company’s FASTier SSD caching technology. The new NAS system […]

Computer maker Asus is rolling out a tablet powered by Nvidia’s quad-core Tegra 3 chip. Asus’ 10.1-inch Eee Pad Transformer Prime, announced Nov. 9, is an ultra-thin device, coming in at 0.33 inches thick, and lightweight, at 1.29 pounds. It features a metallic swirl design with enhancements including the company’s SonicMaster audio technology and an […]

A study issued by IT management software specialist Spiceworks revealed that small and midsize businesses continue to embrace advanced technology-including tablet computers, cloud services and virtualization technology-at a rapid pace. According to the results of the company’s State of SMB IT survey, nearly half of SMBs have adopted tablet computers and cloud services, while IT […]

IP desktop phones and IP communications solutions provider Snom Technology introduced a line of business Voice over IP phones, the 7xx series designed for small and midsize businesses requiring an enterprise-class desktop phone on a smaller budget. The 720 and 760 business phones bring together the multiple programmable buttons and standard business functionality of the […]

Panasonic unveiled the Toughpad FZ-A1, a 10-inch tablet and the first in its Toughpad family of Google Android-powered tablets designed for highly mobile outdoor workers in conditions like aviation, construction, field service and public safety. Panasonic said it would add a 7-inch tablet to the Toughpad range in the second half of 2012. The FZ-A1, […]

Amid fears of a “double-dip” recession, rising unemployment, and continued economic turbulence, a survey of IT professionals conducted by Modis, a provider of IT staffing solutions, paints a brighter picture of the current career outlook for the field. According to the survey, 89 percent of IT professionals are happy at their current jobs and 64 […]

Business and financial management solutions specialist Intuit and network operator AT&T (NYSE:T) announced a partnership to offer Intuit GoPayment for AT&T, a mobile application and credit card reader that helps small and midsize businesses process credit or debit card payments using their smartphone or tablet. GoPayment for AT&T comes with automatic signup and pre-approval for […]

A report from mobile phone manufacturer Ericsson says mobile data traffic will grow 10-fold between 2011 and 2016, driven mainly by video, noting mobile broadband subscriptions grew by 60 percent in one year and are expected to grow from 900 million in 2011 to almost 5 billion in 2016. By 2016, users living on less […]

By 2014, 30 percent of midsize companies will have adopted recovery-in-the-cloud, also known as recovery-as-a-service (RaaS), to support IT operations recovery, up from just over 1 percent today, according to Gartner. RaaS describes the managed replication of virtual machines (VMs) and production data in a service provider’s cloud, together with the means to activate the […]

The October CBIZ Small Business Employment Index (SBEI), a barometer for hiring trends among companies with 300 or fewer employees, further decreased by 1.28 percent through the month, after posting a decrease of .81 percent in September. The announcement follows ADP’s October jobs survey, which illustrated that the private sector added 114,000 jobs in October. […]