Nathan Eddy

Data protection and big data management Qauntum announced two vmPro virtual data protection offerings, the vmPro 4601 appliance, a turnkey virtual machine backup solution for small and midsize businesses and remote offices and vmPro software, a data protection solution with utilities designed to improve and simplify virtual data protection in midrange and larger data centers. […]

Security specialist Symantec announced the findings of its 2011 Threat Management Survey, which examined the concerns and challenges IT security organizations face as they confront the evolving threat landscape. The poll revealed that most enterprises are not confident in their security posture and that staffing is a major issue limiting IT security’s effectiveness. The survey […]

More than 30 percent of BlackBerry users in large enterprises (those with greater than 10,000 employees) expect to migrate to a different platform within the next year, according to Enterprise Management Associates. The research firm noted this represents a “significant” reduction from the platform’s current domination of the large enterprise market space, with 52 percent […]

The latest CDW IT Monitor revealed lower expectations for budget increases and hiring, along with a drop in overall hardware spending. However, increases in software spending and a more optimistic outlook in key sectors, including small business and health care IT, brought balance to the broader IT sentiment, according to the report. While the CDW […]

Tablets No single platform, form factor or technology will dominate, and companies should expect to manage a diverse environment with two to four intelligent clients through 2015. Mobile-Centric Applications and Interfaces Mobile consumer application platform tools and mobile enterprise platform tools are emerging to make it easier to develop in a cross-platform environment. Contextual and […]

Worldwide enterprise IT spending is projected to total $2.7 trillion in 2012, a 3.9 percent increase from 2011 spending of $2.6 trillion, according to research from IT analytics firm Gartner. While enterprise IT spending growth is slowing (from the expected 5.9 percent increase in 2011), analysts said it’s important to note that despite the global […]

CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the IT industry, announced it is developing IT channel training programs and resources focused on enterprise mobility management. The association extended an invitation to all sectors of the mobile universe, including carriers, device and infrastructure manufacturers, mobile application developers, solution providers and others, to join a content advisory board. This […]

The U.S. high-tech industry lost 115,800 net jobs in 2010, for a total of 5.75 million workers, according to TechAmerica Foundation’s 14th annual Cyberstates report detailing national and state trends in high-tech employment, wages, and other key economic factors. This 2 percent decline in tech industry employment was less than half the 249,500 jobs lost […]

The Federal Communications Commission, the wireless communications association CTIA and Consumers Union announced a set of industry changes meant to reduce “bill shock,” or the unexpected charges many consumers incur by passing the limits on their data plans or making expensive roaming calls while overseas. The regulations require network operators to send voice or text […]

Information storage company DataDirect Networks unveiled the next generation of its Web Object Scaler system, WOS 2.0. With this release, DDN introduced accessibility and data protection features to complement an appliance built on a cloud storage system, which the company said is capable of scalable performance 70 percent faster than Amazon S3 and more than […]

Security specialist GFI Software announced that WebMonitor, the company’s Web security solution, includes security and anti-malware features designed to enable small and midsize businesses to provide employees Internet access while boosting network protection. The latest version of GFI WebMonitor provides SMB IT administrators with additional layers of defense to identify dangerous Websites and threats before […]

Storage solutions specialist Imation has unveiled a scalable storage portfolio of data protection and data archive products designed to help data-intensive, compliance-driven small to medium-size businesses retain, retrieve and recover data. Imation’s scalable storage platform features InfiniVault and DataGuard multitiered data archive and data protection appliances, as well as the company’s existing RDX removable hard […]