Nathan Eddy

Holiday sales and increased availability of the iPhone 6 Plus affected Apple’s market share in two of its biggest markets—the United States and particularly in China, where the iPhone 6 Plus is booming—and all indications are that demand for this device is outstripped by market demand by a wide margin, according to a report from […]

Application networking specialist A10 Networks announced the integration of its Thunder Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric. The joint solution is designed to help enterprises amplify their data center output by automatically provisioning application delivery and security services. The open framework of Cisco ACI enables ecosystem partners such as A10 […]

U.S. technology professionals earned an average salary of $89,450 last year, up two percent from 2013, according to IT jobs portal Dice’s annual salary survey. Merit raises account for the boost in most cases – 61%, the study found. But notably, 25 percent of tech pros received higher wages due to changing employers within the […]

Small business optimism is at a three-year high, with 95 percent of small business owners expecting to grow their revenue in 2015. Half of these businesses expect to grow by more than 20 percent, according to a by financial services data provider Kabbage. Top-of-mind growth issues for the more than 800 companies surveyed include access […]

More than two-thirds of health care decision-makers say analytics is one of their organization’s top three priorities, according to a report from CDW. The top motivational factors driving analytics include the rising cost of health care (59 percent), Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record (EHR) incentive programs (44 percent) and accountable care (41 percent). While […]

The nationwide job market for IT professionals is undeniably robust, with an unemployment rate of just 2.5 percent. Still, significant downsizing occurred in the computer industry in 2014, according to a Challenger, Gray and Christmas report. Overall, the tech sector was responsible for 21 percent of 483,171 total job cuts announced in 2014. It marked […]

Data backup and management specialist CloudBerry Lab announced a new cloud-based file sharing and sync system designed to give users control over files across multiple endpoints. The new CloudBerry Box can be run through a customer cloud storage account from any of the major cloud storage vendors, and in a private cloud or hybrid environment. […]

Cyber security solutions specialist Fortinet announced a line of internal firewall products designed to help businesses improve internal network security and better protect data. The new Internal Network Firewall uses application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) architecture to provide multi-gigabit throughput and can be deployed with immediate network traffic visibility. The new internal network firewall blocks malicious […]

Health information service provider DataMotion and health care management solutions specialist NeoDeck Holdings have teamed up to offer an email encryption solution for clinical and non-clinical exchange of protected health information (PHI). NeoDeck will add DataMotion’s line of secure messaging solutions to its product portfolio, allowing NeoDeck customers to use DataMotion’s cloud-based encryption technology, including […]

More than 770 million biometric authentication applications will be downloaded annually by 2019, up from just 6 million this year. The biometric adoption trend is dramatically reducing dependence on alphanumeric passwords in the mobile phone market, according to a report from Juniper Research. Key benefits of biometrics include enhanced accessibility and reduced rejection rates, according […]

Privileged inside users pose one of the greatest security risks to organizations worldwide, according to Vormetric’s 2015 Insider Threat Report (ITR). Vormetric polled 818 IT decision makers in various countries, including 408 in the United States. Domestically, 93 percent said their organizations were more vulnerable to insider threats. In addition, 59 percent of U.S. respondents […]

HP’s Latest Tablets, Accessories Built to Serve the Mobile Employee By Nathan Eddy Pro Slate 8, Pro Slate 12 Feature Corning Gorilla Glass Text: The tablets come equipped with commercial-grade Android that uses business-class hardware security managed by HP Touchpoint Manager, Managed Mobility Services and optional third-party enterprise mobility management (EMM) suites. Both the 8-inch […]