Mary Hayes Weier
Mary Hayes Weier's Bio
As Editor At Large, Mary heads up coverage of enterprise software at InformationWeek. She tracks the software companies that are most important to businesses, and writes about emerging models, including software-as-a-service and cloud computing. She talks often with CIOs about such issues as software maintenance costs, new approaches to software, and IT innovation, and meets regularly with high-level industry executives. Mary analyzes her findings via in-depth articles, breaking news stories, and blogs. Mary has been with InformationWeek since 1994 in a variety of writing and editing roles, and has covered, or has managed reporters covering, nearly every key area of IT.
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
- Cloud Beyond SaaS: SMBs have saved big buying software on a subscription model. Here's how to determine if infrastructure services can pay off, too.
- 1,000 Servers, Zero Hardware: One startup's experience with infrastructure-as-a-service shows how the numbers stack up for IaaS vs. internal IT.
- And much more!
SMB Whitepapers
- Building a Business-Ready Mobile Infrastructure
- Shared Storage for SMB Server Bundles
- No Compromise, Cost Effective, VMware Storage for the SMB
- Three unique technologies provide users with a truly modern storage experience
- Rethinking Backup and Recovery: Disk vs. Tape
- Server Room Solutions: How small to midsize IT businesses can make their IT budgets appear larger than they are
- Top Three Microsoft Exchange Concerns and EMC Solutions
