The findings of the 2009 Global Small and Mid-sized Business Security and Storage survey conducted by IT security firm Symantec has revealed what most of us have quietly known all along - that many... More >
Much has been written about Windows 7, especially now that Microsoft has decided to tell all about its new operating system, scheduled to be widely available on October 22 . In fact, Rob Enderle has... More >
I wrote recently about the advantages and disadvantages of the PHP programming language in a couple of blogs. In the former piece, I suggested that the many popular Web-based applications built o... More >
The battle in the SMB storage space got ratcheted up another notch this week with the launch of Netgear's ReadyNAS 3200 System . This comes hot on the heels of the unveiling of Dell's EqualLogic PS... More >
Dell made an announcement last week about its expanded technology, with a number of new products targeted specifically at the SMBs. On the storage front, the EqualLogic PS4000 storage array ... More >
Network World has a story about how an online University narrowly avoided the fires around Santa Barbara, Calif. , last month. The disaster was averted as a direct result of a virtualization exerci... More >
I was scanning through some press releases yesterday when one of them caught my attention. It was basically an announcement trumpeting the sponsoring organizations' use of text messages. Provided it ... More >
I have over the last few months written on various open source or free solutions for the small and medium-sized business. Rather than rattling off a list of such applications, I have tried to point o... More >
Last week, I wrote about the advantages of using PHP for Web development . In contrast to purchasing expensive, proprietary solutions, the open source nature of PHP -- as well as the open ecosystem ... More >
If you have been dabbling with Web technologies for any length of time, you have heard about the Web page scripting language called PHP, or PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. An open source development, P... More >
Yesterday, I wrote about leveraging open source solutions in networking . I highlighted how open source technologies are being used in routers, and mentioned my experiences with the IPCop firewall. ... More >
Regular readers of this SMB blog would have read about my mention of the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite , as well as other popular open source software such as Mozilla Foundation's Firefox... More >
At its annual partner summit this week, networking giant Cisco Systems took the opportunity to launch a range of new products and services targeted at small and medium-sized businesses. The 100 new ... More >
Microsoft has finally given the word and confirmed that Windows 7 will be widely available on Oct. 22. Given the slippages that occurred with Windows Vista, it is understandable that Redmond is kee... More >
The last couple days saw me experiencing frustration over a spat of poor performance from my laptop that rebooting alone failed to improve. It was puzzling because the laptop had good specifications ... More >
In a post last week, I wrote about the need for small and medium businesses to plan their IT strategy in such a way to position their organizations for expansion. To help readers understand of the ... More >
Thanks to IT Business Edge Associate Editor Susan Hall who gave me the heads-up on this interesting piece over at PC World titled "A Small Business's Guide to the Cloud." The article attempts to sh... More >

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