Nathan Eddy

The percentage of global households with WiFi home gateways or routers supplied by their service providers will rise from 66 percent in 2014 to nearly 90 percent in 2019, according to a report from IT research firm IHS. Driving the need for more connectivity is the number of connected devices per household, which continues to […]

The average health care organization uses 928 cloud services, and just 7 percent of cloud services meet enterprise security and compliance requirements, according to a report from Skyhigh Networks, a cloud security vendor. The findings are based on usage data for more than 1.6 million employees at health care providers and payers. Just 15.4 percent […]

Privileged users, such as managers with access to sensitive information, pose the biggest insider threat to organizations (59 percent), according to a survey of 500 cyber security professionals by Crowd Research Partners. The insider threat survey was conducted in cooperation with the more than 260,000- member Information Security Community on LinkedIn and security vendors, including […]

D-Link announced the availability of its ShareCenter 4-Bay Cloud Network Storage Enclosure and the Full HD PoE Day/Night Network Camera. Designed to provide features offered in both business and consumer storage arrays, the storage unit, called the DNS-340L, is aimed at small- to medium-size businesses (SMBs) and powered by a 1.2GHz central processing unit (CPU) […]

Nearly all IT professionals (96 percent) are interested in Windows 10, and 60 percent of IT departments have tested or are actively testing the new operating system, according to a survey of more than 500 respondents by Spiceworks. The survey also found that 40 percent of companies plan to begin rolling out Windows 10 within […]

Grandstream Networks announced the availability of the GVC3200 videoconferencing platform, aimed at small- to medium-size businesses (SMBs). The platform interoperates with a wide variety of video conferencing products and services such as Blue Jeans, Cisco, Polycom, Huawei and others, as well as Android video apps such as Skype and Google Hangouts. It offers support for […]

Nearly all (91 percent) marketers either use or intend to use personalization for online customer interactions within the next year, according to a worldwide survey of 242 marketers conducted by Evergage, in conjunction with Researchscape International. Just about one-half (49 percent) of those surveyed intends to increase their budgets for personalization over the year ahead, […]

The vast majority of airlines (86 percent) expect that the Internet of things (IoT) will deliver clear benefits in the next three years, and more than one third (37 percent) already have allocated budget to it, according to a survey by SITA, an air transport communications and IT vendor. By 2018, 16 percent of the […]

Nearly five million developers worldwide are currently using the cloud as a development platform, and a another 4.1 million expect to be using it in the next six months, according to Evans Data’s Global Development and Demographic Study. The study, which uses secondary research, proprietary population algorithms and survey data from the company’s Global Development […]

Just under half (46 percent) of chief financial officers rely on “gut-feel” and instinct to make business decisions in lieu of fast access to accurate internal data, according to a survey of 1,500 financial decision makers by Epicor Software. Of those polled, 45 percent say poor data hampers timely decision-making, and inaccurate information is the […]

The market for wearable devices continued its upward trajectory in the first quarter of 2015, with IT research firm IDC projecting that 72.1 million wearable devices will be shipped in 2015, up a robust 173.3 percent from the 26.4 million units shipped in 2014. Vendors like Fitbit and Xiaomi have helped propel the market with […]

Over the last four quarters, spending on data center infrastructure reached $114 billion, with software now accounting for 23 percent of the total, according to a report from Synergy Research Group. Two major vendors, Microsoft and VMware, currently dominate the software segments of the market, in aggregate accounting for almost 90 percent of software revenues. […]