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May 29, 2009

Positioning Your SMB for Growth

A successful small and medium-sized business can grow and expand at a breakneck pace. This can prove especially challenging in terms of acquiring IT equipment and infrastructure design - what worked ... More >

May 28, 2009

Tips for Better SMB Security

A recent survey of small business attitudes by security vendor Trend Micro concluded that the threat of cybercrime is an increasing concern for IT decision makers. I personally view this as a good ... More >

May 26, 2009

More Tips to Green Computing for the SMB

In an earlier blog post , I mentioned how a new book from John Lamb titled "The Greening of IT" ( Safari Books Online ) prompted me to think more about the idea of green IT for SMBs. With more than ... More >

Practical Tips to Green Computing for the SMB

I was reading a book from IBM Press titled "The Greening of IT" ( Safari Books Online ) which arrived last week. Even as companies wake up to the idea of environmental responsibility, author John L... More >

May 19, 2009

OpenOffice 3.1 Updated with New Look, Performance Boost

Less than a year since OpenOffice 3.0 was released to rave reviews last October , the next iteration of the popular productivity suite is now available. According to various reports, OpenOffice 3.1 ... More >

May 18, 2009

Acquiring New Laptops for Your SMB

Getting some new laptops for your small and medium businesses and at a loss where to begin?   Perhaps knowing the top choices by large and small businesses will help you narrow down to some vend... More >

May 15, 2009

Gartner: Forget About Deploying Windows Vista

IT analyst firm Gartner has gone ahead and talked about an area that many IT managers or CIOs must have been pondering ever since the public availability of Microsoft's Windows 7 Release Candidate (... More >

May 14, 2009

Keeping Laptops Past Their Useful Lifespan Costs More Than It Saves

Having worked in my fair share of small and medium-sized businesses, I am not at all unfamiliar with some of the practices that smaller organizations are often guilty of. For example, one common misd... More >

May 12, 2009

Increase Your Productivity with an Additional Monitor

Have you ever been to an office and seen a staffer struggle with a small flickering CRT-era monitor? Well, chances are that this happened at a SMB that either does not have an IT budget or simply h... More >

May 11, 2009

Security Is for SMBs, Too

I came across this interesting Q&A with an FBI agent who played a pivotal role in busting a transnational cybercrime outfit. Agent J. Keith Mularski spent two years infiltrating an underground ... More >

May 7, 2009

Windows 7 RC: Now Is the Time to Evaluate

With the availability of the Windows 7 release candidate (RC) to the general public earlier this week, now is probably a good time as any to do a recap of the initial impressions from testers who hav... More >

May 5, 2009

Simple Password Tips for the SMB

I read with some fascination about how researchers from the University of California gained access to the command-and-control network of the Torpig botnet. The researchers monitored the botnet over... More >

May 1, 2009

Time for SMBs to Plan for Windows 7

The Release Candidate (RC) of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system was released to the subscribers of MSDN, TechNet and TechBeta yesterday. Come May 5, it will be made available to the general publ... More >

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