Nathan Eddy

While cloud technology has been a long-term trend in IT, there remain many myths about how it works and what advantages it holds, according to a West IP Communications survey of more than 300 IT managers. Surveyed IT managers appeared split on just how much a shift to the cloud would affect their company’s bottom […]

Telecommunications services and cloud infrastructure provider CenturyLink announced the availability of 1G-bps fiber speeds to more than 115,000 additional U.S. business locations and in five additional states. The network expansion means the company’s symmetrical gigabit fiber service now reaches nearly 490,000 small to medium-size business (SMB) locations in 17 states with the availability of IT […]

At more than 64 percent of businesses, a majority of mobile workforces can access their organizations’ secure data remotely, yet less than 25 percent of businesses have sufficient policies and controls in place for mobile media, such as USB drives, according to a survey of 330 IT and security professionals. The survey, conducted by SANS […]

About half of businesses expect to increase their hiring of IT staff during 2015, according to a global survey of 1,507 business and IT executives, conducted by CompTIA. The most bullish hiring forecasts come from large organizations (500 or more employees), where 57 percent expect to add staff this year, and companies in countries with […]

Virtru announced a HIPAA-compliant email service that allows users in the health care industry to keep confidential information private and audit-ready. The company’s Virtru Pro platform enables users to send and receive secure, HIPAA-compliant encrypted emails, revoke sent messages, restrict forwarding, and set expiration dates for emails and files to auto delete. The platform offers […]

Despite a great familiarity with a Web-based life and the technology that comes with it, the Millennial generation poses a greater risk to data security than other categories of users, according to a survey of 762 North American adults conducted by Absolute Software. The survey found 64 percent of Millennials use their employer-owned devices for […]

ZyXEL Communications released the AC2350, 802.11ac Wave 2 WiFi router, known as the Armor Z1. The router employs 802.11ac Wave 2 with Multi-user MIMO- (MU-MIMO) ready and band steering- ready hardware, and support for wireless speeds of up to 2.33 Gigabytes per second (Gbps). MU-MIMO delivers multiple data streams to multiple devices simultaneously, differing from […]

Lexmark announced Perceptive Checklist Capture, a platform that automates the process of gathering related documents and data from desktop, mobile and smart multi-function devices. Designed to streamline the capture process and free knowledge workers to focus on customer service and compliance, the platform organizes unstructured data, simplifies deployment and expansion, complements existing core systems, and […]

SDL announced XMT, a core component of the language pillar within SDL’s Customer Experience Cloud. Developed by the SDL Language Research Group, XMT is a rewrite of machine translation technology developed to address the limitations of previous generations of machine translation (MT). The platform allows different translation algorithms to be used for different language pairs. […]

Unitrends announced the public beta version of its Unitrends Free virtual data protection software. Features in Unitrends Free include vSphere and Hyper-V Backup for unlimited virtual machines (VMs) and Sockets, providing hypervisor-level protection for up to 1 terabyte (TB) of data. Free also makes it possible to run a VM directly from a backup to […]

Smartphones are now the third most-owned consumer electronics product in the country, trailing only televisions and DVD/Blu-ray players, indicating that a major shift in the consumer electronics products owned by U.S. households is under way, according to a survey by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). Smartphones are now owned in 72 percent of U.S. households—an […]

Approximately two-thirds of federal IT workers say development operations (DevOps) will help agencies shift into the cloud fast lane, improving IT collaboration and migration speed, according to a MeriTalk survey of 152 federal IT managers familiar with their agency’s cloud adoption. DevOps is a software development and IT management model that integrates software engineering, quality […]