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7 SMB Technology Predictions For 2013
What's in store for small and midsize business technology in the New Year?
Google Escapes Antitrust Shackles
FTC's antitrust case against Google appears to be winding down without Google being slapped with any penalties or restrictions. Be glad.
8 Modest Proposals For Reducing Email
Want to trim corporate email inboxes? Consider these unorthodox ideas.
4 Smartphone Upgrade Pitfalls For SMBs
It's smartphone upgrade time, and my Android is falling apart right on cue. Here are some mistakes I'm hoping to avoid when choosing my next device.
Windows 8: Let's Not Plan The Funeral Yet
Even in tech time, it seems silly to sound the death knell so soon on such a significant overhaul. Did you really expect instant success?
SMBs Spending on IT, Not New IT Hires
Small and midsize business IT budgets continue to grow but hiring remains stagnant. Here's why IT folk should embrace the trend.
Apple iPad Mini: One Week In
Now that I've spent a full week using the iPad Mini, here are some thoughts on its strengths and weaknesses.
Low Smartphone Prices Hide Expensive Tradeoffs
The biggest phones of the year -- such as Apple iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy Note II, Nokia Lumia 920 and Google Nexus 4 -- are relatively cheap at...
Windows 8: Are PC People Out Of Touch?
Keyboard and mouse users have little reason to celebrate when Microsoft's new OS rolls out. Does that make me a dinosaur?
Windows 8: Do I Really Need A Single OS?
If I skip Windows 8, some folks say I'm losing the appealing opportunity to synchronize all of my devices on a single platform. Color me skeptical.
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Top Stories
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Craft Brewer Likes Taste of SAP Business One App
September 17, 2012A small brewery dumps spreadsheets in favor of software built specifically for beer makers on the SAP Business One platform.
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How One SMB Rewrote IT, Starring Cloud
September 10, 2012The Great Books Foundation, a literacy nonprofit, reshaped IT while simultaneously managing the sea change from print to e-books.
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Top 5 Social Struggles For SMBs
August 09, 2012Social use does not equal social strategy. Here are the top reasons SMBs have no real idea what they're doing on social sites.
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4 Critical Missteps When SMBs Talk To Venture Capitalists
June 12, 2012Venture funding can supercharge the growth of small tech firms and other startups. Here's how to avoid killing your chances with potential investors.
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VMware Makes Socialcast Free For Small Businesses, Departments
June 06, 2012Companies can get 50 Socialcast social software user accounts at no charge. VMware positions the offer as a full-featured alternative to Yammer's...
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Watch Out: I've Become The Boss Of Me
May 31, 2012Cloud services are helping to create a new wave of super-powered, cell-sized businesses. Thanks to us, you may have to manage quite differently.
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3 Mobile Trends SMBs Might Be Missing
April 23, 2012There's a gap between small and midsize businesses when it comes capitalizing on mobile--but forward-thinking firms can still reap advantages.
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Avaya Gives Peek At Future Of Collaboration
March 27, 2012Awareness beats presence, Avaya says, outlining its vision for next generation collaboration tools at Enterprise Connect. Think technology that...
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Anatomy Of An All-Cloud SMB
March 15, 2012Startup runs on nothing but cloud applications. Here are the 16 apps they use and what they gain by skipping onsite IT infrastructure.
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Worst Tech Vendor Pitches For SMBs, Debunked
January 31, 2012While tech vendors salivate over the small and midsize business (SMB) market, we translate the truth behind some of the sales spiels.
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SMB Webcasts
- Cloud Success Case Studies
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Growing companies lay out their real-world successes in transitioning to cloud computing, to help you create strategies for a smooth transition. - Best Practices for SMBs To Build a Robust Mobile Infrastructure
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Find out how to build a cost-effective mobility infrastructure that maximizes productivity, minimizes security challenges. - Mobile Applications for SMBs: Boosting Productivity and Connectivity Safely
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How to give users what they need to be productive, while managing access and security cost effectively. - Simplified Disaster Recovery for SMBs: Virtualization is the Key
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Research & Reports
SMEs and the Cloud: How Much Is Too Much?
This exclusive downloadable research report examines how outsourcing certain IT functions to a service provider can pay off for small and midsize businesses, even more than for large enterprises. But go too far into the cloud, and you may suffer in terms of maintaining agility and responsiveness to market forces.
Secure Design on a Dime: Our Top 5 Best Practices for SMEs
This exclusive downloadable research report details the security tools that small shops need, at a minimum, to prepare for the increasingly complex security and compliance environment that exists today and the top 5 ways growing businesses can stretch their IT budgets.
Current SMB Issue
- Storage Virtualization Gets Real: Our four business scenarios show how to improve disaster recovery, boost disk utilization and speed performance.
- Wrong Side Of Moore's Law: While Intel remains the biggest manufacturer of chips in the world, the next few years will prove vexing for the company.
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SMB Whitepapers
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- Departmental Private Cloud Reference Architecture
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- The Cloud Checklist for SMBs: 7 Tips for Safer Cloud Computing
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- Fulfilling the Lean Software Promise: Building and Running Spring Applications on VMware vFabric tc Server