Nathan Eddy

Two reports focusing on the IT jobs market project a healthy picture for technology professionals, particularly for software developers. In the U.S. IT sector, employment enjoyed a bounceback in June, adding 32,100 new jobs to more than offset job losses experienced in May, according to CompTIA’s analysis of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) […]

The percentage of IT leaders who are seeing budget increases this year is higher than anticipated, and while they are confident about satisfying core and line-of-business initiatives, they are losing confidence in the ability to meet the demands of new initiatives. These were among the findings of the TEKsystems midyear IT Reality Check, a survey […]

Consumers consider accuracy the most important feature of wearables, and more than half of those who do not own a wearable would consider buying one if they trusted the accuracy, according to a survey by Valencell, a provider of performance biometric data sensor technology. The online survey of 706 U.S. consumers, ages 18-65, polled them […]

Data analytics can help companies dramatically improve sales and marketing effectiveness and decision-making, but a ZS study conducted by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) of nearly 450 U.S.-based senior executives from companies across industries found that headwinds to successful adoption persist. Just 2 percent of companies said they have achieved broad, positive impact from their […]

Two-thirds of adults in the United States are at least somewhat likely to stop doing business with a company that has suffered a cyber-security breach, according to a report commissioned by IT security specialist Centrify. That number is even higher in the UK, where 75 percent said they are somewhat likely to stop doing business […]

Close to two-thirds (60 percent) of knowledge workers in small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the U.S., UK and Germany now use on-demand tools—technology that is Internet or cloud-based—in their professional roles, according to a Unify survey of 5,000 British, American and German SMB knowledge workers. This figure is higher than in companies with 500 […]

Businesses are failing to appreciate the growing challenges of protecting their data and, as a result, are experiencing the economic impact of data loss. That’s according to EMC’s Global Data Protection Index 2016, an independent study by Vanson Bourne of enterprise backup in 18 countries around the world. The study identified three major emerging data […]

With North America and Asia in the lead, 5G commercial services will launch in 2020, and there will be 24 million 5G subscriptions worldwide at the end of 2021 for mobile and fixed broadband services. That’s according to a report from IT research firm Ovum. The inaugural “5G Subscription Forecasts” report predicts North America and […]

Encryption specialist for email and files Virtru announced the ability to search full body encrypted text without sacrificing data security or privacy. This means users of its security platform can search for content contained in the encrypted body of an email message or file, not just metadata found in the subject line, and do so […]

Business owners in the United States recognize the severity of ransomware and the potential disruption to business operations, yet 84 percent say they would not pay in the event of an attack, according to a survey by data security and identity theft protection firm IDT911. However, a third of the 1,035 small to medium-size business […]