Nathan Eddy

Data protection and backup and disaster recovery specialist Paragon Software announced the release of Protect & Restore 3.5, a backup and disaster recovery solution with centralized IT management for organizations employing diverse platforms and technologies in physical and virtual environments. The PPR 3.5 release offers security in heterogeneous IT environments consisting of domain and non-domain […]

Small business social media specialist Moment.me announced the launch of Places, a free tool providing small and midsize businesses (SMBs) with location-based live social streaming. The platform allows business owners to input an address or the name of their establishment and Moment.me will aggregate all the content that has been posted from or about the […]

Backup and data protection specialist Intronis announced the release of ECHOshare, file sync and share technology for channel partners to help small and midsize businesses (SMBs) securely access and collaborate on files of any type or size. The platform integrates with the company’s ECHOplatform data protection platform for centralized account management and billing, and can […]

Heading into 2014, 62 percent of IT leaders expected their IT budgets to increase, but through the first three-quarters of the year, the percentage of IT leaders who experienced increases never rose above 47 percent, according to a TEKsystems survey of more than 200 IT leaders, including chief technology officers (CTOs), IT vice presidents, IT […]

Networking specialist Netgear announced the release of two access points, the Dual Band 802.11ac Wireless Access Point (WAC120) and the Dual Band High Powered 802.11n Weatherproof Outdoor Access Point (WAC120), as well as updated products including two firewalls and a ReadyNAS line bolstered by new processors. The WAC120 AP is designed for smaller companies that […]

Corporate performance management (CPM) solutions are growing in popularity with a near-perfect 98 percent satisfaction rate among customers, and a majority of customers surveyed are looking to increase their CPM budgets over the next few years, according to a Nucleus Research market survey. Only four percent of customers expect to decrease their CPM budget in […]

Shopping with mobile device is becoming more commonplace than ever before, as one out of 10 shoppers already prefer mobile apps exclusively for their online shopping, according to an online Contact Solutions shopping habits survey of 1,000 American consumers. Online shopping is already widespread around three-quarters of shoppers surveyed said they make purchases online, and […]

Cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) and financials software specialist Netsuite announced its next-generation payroll service, with features including a payroll interface that validates all leave, payroll and salary data, full gross-to-net calculations and support for check printing. Other features include pay cards and direct deposit, enhanced payroll workflows that handle large transaction volumes, and employee […]

Data warehouse services (DWS) provider BitYota announced an update of its flagship DWS for Big Data analytics platform, which includes data collection framework, an in-database processing pipeline for extract-load-transform (ELT), enhanced resource management and platform-specific improvements to boost analytics performance. The company’s data collection framework provides a unified way to funnel data from a wide […]

The health care search behaviors of American workers employed at Fortune 500 companies changes significantly according to demographic factors such as age, gender and region, according to a report from Castlight Health, a cloud-based enterprise health care management software specialist. Search data reveals that women search more than men in Castlight’s platform–women are about 52 […]

10 Ways Health IT Startups Are Evolving By Nathan Eddy Infrastructure Market Leads in Total Funding Accenture research identified four distinct market segments that have received startup funding between 2008 and 2013, with infrastructure, largely the bearer of regulatory mandates and incentives and including health analytics and interoperability solutions, as the leader with $2.9 billion […]

The technology space is one of the hottest sectors for deal making in terms of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and 38 percent of respondents have an intention of doing tech M&A in the next 6 to 12 months and are being driven by increased competition and new breakthroughs, according to a report from Ernst & […]