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Paul Mah

January 2010

January 31, 2010

The State of Virtualization in SMBs

While the value proposition for virtualization in larger enterprises or data centers is clear and can be easily argued, the same is not necessarily true for small and medium businesses.  In an earlie... More >

January 29, 2010

Deploying the Apple iPad in the SMB

Finally, the secret that we all knew about has been officially unveiled.  Apple announced the iPad tablet earlier this week at a media event that ground the tech news stream to a near standstill, g... More >

January 27, 2010

SMBs Speeding up Their Windows 7 Adoption

SMBs are speeding up their plans to adopt Windows 7 after its official launch last year.  This was the conclusion of a study by Spiceworks in which 1,500 IT professionals were polled.  The respondent... More >

January 25, 2010

Netgear Unveils Wireless Network Controllers for SMBs

In another sign that wireless networking is slowly but surely making its way into the mainstream, network equipment maker Netgear recently announced three new wireless network controllers designed fo... More >

January 24, 2010

The Scourge of Rogue Security Software

In a recent guest post on ITBusinessEdge.com, Marc Fossi, who is the Manager for Research and Development at Symantec, warned of the dangers of rogue security software .  Rogue security software is ... More >

January 20, 2010

Google Hack: Security a Reality SMBs Can No Longer Ignore

You've read the news that saw search giant Google making the highly unusual move of announcing that it was a victim of an attack against its corporate network, and that intellectual property has alle... More >

Evaluate Technologies with Remote Access in Mind

New research from collaboration firm oneDrum says that many workers find themselves unable to work from home despite the fact that they are willing to do so. The survey quizzed 606 employees and 610 ... More >

January 12, 2010

Broadcom Unveils 802.11n Routers Targeting SMBs

Broadcom Corporation has unveiled a series of new microprocessors and software designed to implement wireless 802.11n networking . This comes relatively shortly after the final ratification of 801.1... More >

January 11, 2010

Software That I Use

I enjoy a good discussion about the merits of various software applications and tools.  My rationale is simple: I am open to using applications that have proved helpful for others.  It is in this spi... More >

January 8, 2010

New Year's Resolutions for Your SMB

It's a new year again.   As we end the first week of 2010, what new resolutions have you made for IT?  To help everyone along, I have come up with a number of possible resolutions to adopt, backing i... More >

January 7, 2010

Chrome Overtakes Safari in Browser Usage, Ranked Third

The Google Chrome browser has slid into third position in terms of worldwide usage in December, barely 15 months since its release. Usage of the browser jumped to 4.6 percent, up from 3.9 percent in ... More >

January 6, 2010

How SMBs Should Be Getting Started with Virtualization

Small and medium-sized businesses planning to finally make the plunge into virtualization in 2010 will be interested to know the tips that VMware has on this front. VMware, the leading provider of vi... More >

January 5, 2010

From Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome

I posed the question of whether it was time to reconsider the use of Firefox , highlighting some performance degradation that the popular open source Web browser appears to be suffering from. Not su... More >

January 3, 2010

Key Findings of the VMware SMB Survey

Virtualization giant VMware did a recent survey on SMBs and virtualization, and compiled its findings in a white paper. You can access the VMware SMB Survey here .   Interestingly, the survey c... More >

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