Nathan Eddy

Seagate Technology’s LaCie brand announced the addition of USB–C technology to its Porsche Design Mobile Drive. The product combines the recently unveiled USB–C standard with the style features of the company’s Porsche Design line, and is marketed as a natural pair to the latest MacBook, which was announced last week. The drive’s USB 3.0 interface […]

Three out of four consumers will buy new electronics this year, with 36% of buyers spending $500 or more, according to a survey of 1,000 adults sponsored by online shopping resource FatWallet and conducted by TNS. Of those buyers, one out of five will spend at least $2,000, reflecting a 21 percent increase in big […]

Nearly 40 percent of office workers believe their IT department is too inundated to respond to their specific requests in a timely manner, according to a Harris Poll survey of more than 700 American office workers. The survey, sponsored by K2, found that nearly 70 percent of office workers use free or otherwise available online […]

Semiconductor producer Cavium announced its commitment to driving an open ecosystem for data center switching through the Open Compute Project (OCP). The project ‘s goal is to develop the most efficient data center designs for scalable solutions by openly sharing ideas, specifications and other intellectual property. Cavium’s XPliant team is working with both hardware and […]

Storage specialist WD, a Western Digital company, introduced a line of data center hard drives that deliver low power consumption for high-capacity 3.5-inch hard drives. The WD Re+ hard drive family is the newest component of WD’s tiered portfolio of data center storage devices. Further expanding that portfolio, will be 6 terabyte (TB) capacities for […]

While 93 percent of IT professionals surveyed said adopting significant new technologies is important, many cited barriers to successful adoption that have resulted in achieving mixed results, such as budget (77 percent) and shortage of personnel (49 percent), according to a new study from IT management software vendor SolarWinds. The annual IT Trends Report, which […]

System integration issues are the chief obstacle to delivering a successful digital experience, according to 78 percent of recently-surveyed business and technology decision makers. According to the study, which leveraged data from Forrester’s Business Technographics and was sponsored by Sitecore, decision makers are investing in digital experience as a means to improving customer lifetime value […]

Misuse of employee credentials and improper access controls top the list of concerns over public cloud security, according to a survey of more than 1,000 IT and IT security practitioners conducted by Bitglass. Even with the major breaches of the last year, dominant security concerns involve misuse of employee credentials and improper access control, not […]

Apple ResearchKit, iOS Health Apps Aim to Change Medical Research By Nathan Eddy ResearchKit Involves Many Partners Apple’s ResearchKit uses an open-source software framework that makes it possible for researchers and developers to create apps that could revolutionize medical studies, with the potential help of the 700 million iPhone users worldwide. Each phone is already […]

Seventy percent of chief financial officers (CFOs) rank big data as the top influence on strategic business decisions, and more than half (55 percent) are evolving team roles from number crunchers to strategic analysts, according to an Adaptive Insights survey of more than 250 CFOs across the United States. Nearly 70 percent rank data-based insights […]

Small and midsize business (SMB) expense management solutions lean heavily on manual methods that contradict employee needs and policies, as well as compromise overall profitability, according to a survey of more than 200 SMB financial decision makers by expense management solutions specialist Concur. Seven out of 10 SMBs surveyed said they do not currently use […]

Paragon Software Group announced the release of new partitioning software. Both home and professional editions of Partition Manager 15 handle all PC system and data partitioning tasks, such as resize, move, merge, and copy. Operations are alignment-aware, and can be performed on solid state drive (SSD) or hard drives of any capacity. Expanded split and […]