Nathan Eddy

Endeavour Departs ISS The view of the ISS Endeavour after the station and shuttle began their post-undocking relative separation. Dazzling Journey The docked space shuttle, back-dropped by a nighttime view of Earth and a starry sky, photographed by an Expedition 28 crewmember on the ISS. All Together STS-134 and Expedition 28 crewmembers gather on the […]

Despite persisting economic challenges, small and midsize business IT spending growth has returned more rapidly than expected since the recession officially ended in 2009. Access to credit is still limited and firms remain reluctant to add new employees, but emerging technologies are disrupting established patterns of IT acquisition, and the nearly 8 million SMBs in […]

TeamF1, Inc., a provider of embedded networking and security software solutions for wired and wireless applications, announced the availability of several new threat management features in its SecureF1rst platform in its Security Gateway Solution (SGS) for small to medium-size business (SMB) security routers.The expanded set of features is designed to enable original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) […]

Security specialist McAfee announced the results of a commissioned study conducted by Network World on behalf of McAfee and Brocade. The study, which surveyed 100 IT professionals and security decision makers in North American companies with 500 or more employees, found that IT departments are now turning to virtualization, with half of the respondents having […]

Storage specialist BridgeStor announced it has signed an OEM agreement with Symantec to provide small and medium-size businesses with an Application Optimized Storage appliance equipped with Symantec’s Backup Exec 2010 deduplication suite. Designed to bring data reduction technology to the SMB arena, the BridgeStor AOS appliance combines the functionality of a backup server with a […]

Wipro Technologies, an information technology, consulting and outsourcing business of Wipro Ltd., in partnership with Citrix and Microsoft launched Wipro Desktop as a Service, a desktop virtualization solution designed to deliver desktops, applications and data as an on-demand service. The announcement was made at Citrix Synergy 2011 in San Francisco, though WDaaS was announced earlier […]

Cloud client computing specialist Wyse Technologies and desktop virtualization provider Kaviza, recently acquired by Citrix, announced the availability of Wyse-Kaviza EZ VDI for small to medium-size businesses-a-low-cost virtual desktop solution designed to make it easier than ever for midmarket companies to employ desktop virtualization for up to 250 users. There are three options for the […]

Space shuttle Endeavour’s crew is wrapping up final preparations for its planned landing Wednesday morning at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the space agency reported. The crew is preparing to stow the Ku-Band antenna, used for high-data-rate communications and television from space, and will sleep before the re-entry sequence. The astronauts on Endeavour got […]

Apple is getting ready to offer customers the latest major update to its operating system, Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion,” as a download through the App Store, Mac blog Apple Insider reported. On Friday, the company issued its third build of Mac OS X 10.6.8 to developers, though it is not yet known if it […]

At this year’s Computex IT conference in Taipei, Taiwan, Asus Chairman Jonney Shih unveiled the Padfone, along with a slew of other new Asus products. Also debuting at the show was Asus’ new UX Series notebooks; its redesigned N Series notebooks with SonicMaster audio technology; its versatile Eee Pad MeMO 3D, ultra-thin Eee PC X101 […]

The space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station at 11:55 p.m. EDT Sunday evening, ending a stay of 11 days, 17 hours and 41 minutes at the orbiting laboratory. Pilot Greg Johnson, at the aft flight deck controls, flew Endeavour in a circle around the station at distances of about 450 to 650 […]

A new survey on storage priorities for small and midsize businesses has found that most SMBs (68 percent of those participating in the survey) have one or fewer persons dedicated to IT, while 99 percent say they will not move 100 percent of their storage to the cloud. In the survey of data storage specialist […]