Nathan Eddy

Information and communications technology specialist Dimension Data announced it has acquired Toronto-based Ceryx, a unified communications provider that offers a suite of services across the Microsoft Messaging and Collaboration Suite, including Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint and Skype for Business. Ceryx will reside within Dimension Data’s ITaaS (IT-as-a-service) unit, and Dimension Data will combine Ceryx’s offerings […]

More than half of smartphone users surveyed by Accenture for a 2016 report titled the “Screenager Report” are dissatisfied with their mobile experience and are ready to switch mobile providers. The report, derived from data collected in Accenture’s 2016 Digital Consumer Survey, found that despite the widespread ownership and use of smartphones—with 80 percent of […]

Incidents relating to phishing, hacking and malware were the cause of 31 percent of data security incidents during 2015, revealing a shift from 2014 when human error was the leading cause, according to a new report. Produced by the privacy and data protection team at BakerHostetler, the report analyzes data from more than 300 incidents […]

The global colocation market will reach $33.2 billion by 2018, according to 451 Research’s latest quarterly Datacenter Knowledgebase (DCKB) release, which tracks nearly 4,800 data centers operated by 1,286 companies worldwide. In the fourth quarter of 2015, the data center colocation market saw $27 billion in annualized revenue, with the majority of this revenue (54.6 […]

Identity verification and fraud prevention specialist IDology announced the release of Mobile Identity Spectrum, an integrated solution suite designed to enable safer and frictionless mobile experiences, and ExpectID Scan Onboard, a mobile-optimized ID document verification, scan and prefill solution. The Mobile Identity Spectrum is designed to verify an identity at all stages of mobile interactions […]

Security awareness and training solutions specialist Wombat Security Technologies, launched a comprehensive program designed to help health care providers protect critical patient information. Wombat’s solution is a bundled package, offering CyberStrength knowledge assessments, ThreatSim simulated phishing attack tool, interactive training modules, and security awareness materials. “We have always had clients in the health care space, […]

Data leakage and loss reign as the top bring your own device (BYOD) security concerns, according to a survey of more than 800 global cyber security professionals. The survey, conducted by Crowd Research Partners in conjunction with data security vendors Bitglass, Blancco Technology Group, Check Point Technologies, Skycure, SnoopWall and Tenable Network Security, found that […]

IndependenceIT, a workspace automation software provider that helps IT departments, service providers and ISVs to deliver workspaces, applications and data from any cloud infrastructure, announced Cloud Workspace Suite 5.0. Highlights of the latest generation software include automated cross- platform software defined data center deployments and management; orchestration and workflow automation for third-party Workspace-as-a-Service (WaaS) platforms; […]

As consumers’ smartphone preferences and habits continue to shift, Millennials are driving the increased usage of video calling as a preferred application among smartphone users, according to NPD Group’s Connected Intelligence Application and Convergence Report. The report found more than half (52 percent) of smartphone users age 18-34 say they now use their smartphones to […]

Telemedicine continues to evolve from a specialty-centric offering to a mainstream service, according to a survey from enterprise telemedicine software specialist Reach Health. The survey revealed that roughly two-thirds of respondents rank telemedicine as the top priority or one of the highest priorities for their health care organization–a 10 percent increase from the 2015 survey […]