Nathan Eddy

Netgear announced Business Central, a secure, cloud-based IT service platform designed to provide small- to midsize- businesses (SMBs) with a way to establish, provision and manage IT networking services and network devices. The first service module to debut under the Business Central umbrella is the Wireless Manager, which enables companies as well as value-added resellers […]

Medical software developer Zoeticx announced a crowd funding campaign for TruRecord, a subscriber-based medical prescribing software that leverages DNA testing technology for drug analysis and prevention of adverse drug reactions. The company is raising funds on medical crowd funding site Medstartr, looking toward a fall launch of TruRecord. The solution is designed to foster better […]

Despite increased investment in services from cloud and co-location providers, 87 percent of data center operators surveyed from North America and Europe are maintaining or increasing their data center facility spending, with 25 percent expecting to increase spending over the next 90 days. The 451 Research report is derived from 1,240 Web-based surveys and 26 […]

The vast majority (87 percent) of IT professionals believe large financial hacks are happening more often than reported, and right under the nose of security auditors, according to a survey of nearly 150 IT professionals conducted by Lieberman Software. Meanwhile, 71 percent of respondents think that an advanced persistent threat (APT) attack will attempt to […]

The majority of IT leaders and IT professionals believe the IT skills gap is real, with 80 percent of leaders and 70 percent of IT pros agreeing with that statement, according to a survey of more than 1,300 IT specialists by TEKsystems. Additionally, 60 percent of IT leaders say the IT skills gap has a […]

Owners were four times more likely than brokers to blame a lack of qualified buyers as the reason small businesses remain on the market for an extended period of time or don’t sell at all, according to a survey of more than 500 small business owners and 300 business brokers. The results of the survey […]

Worldwide IT spending is on pace to total $3.5 trillion in 2015, a 5.5 percent decline from 2014, according to a report from IT research firm Gartner, which the company’s analysts attributed to the rising U.S. dollar. The report noted that in constant-currency terms, the market is projected to grow 2.5 percent, but in Gartner’s […]

Finance is at the center of business and well-positioned to help guide strategic, data-driven decisions across a company, according to a global survey of more than 325 chief financial officers by cloud corporate performance management (CPM) specialist Adaptive Insights. The majority of CFOs said they plan to take on more strategic leadership roles (69 percent) […]

Big data analytics specialist Kyvos Insights emerged from stealth mode with a product, called Kyvos, to develop insights from all corporate data, regardless of size and granularity. The company was founded by a team of veterans from Yahoo, Impetus and Intellicus Technologies who specialize in analytics technology; it seeks to deliver a solution that eliminates […]

A majority (62 percent) of security professionals say insider threats have become more frequent in the last 12 months, but only 34 percent expect additional budget to address the problem, according to a report from security specialist SpectorSoft. The report also found fewer than 50 percent of organizations have appropriate controls to prevent insider attacks, […]

Infoblox introduced 6Map, a free interactive tool to help network administrators and network architects get started with planning the transition from IPv4 to IPv6. The existing IPv4 standard allows for only 4.3 billion Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, which are used to individually identify Internet-connected devices such as computers, servers, smart phones and tablets using numeric […]

While companies and their employees are becoming increasingly dependent upon applications to achieve business goals and increase productivity, the proliferation of applications is creating a serious security threat, according to a survey of 610 U.S. IT and IT security practitioners, sponsored by ObserveIT and conducted by the Ponemon Institute. Audits and formal assessments reveal deficiencies […]