Kim Mays

Top Issues Affecting SMB Employees Today An SMB virtual phone service company, eVoice, released results of its mobile app survey, which revealed some surprising results. Of the small to midsize businesses surveyed, almost 50 percent felt that mobile communication apps were integral for business success, but 44 percent said you must be selective about the […]

When a company is looking to transition to a cloud-based platform, having the right people on staff is integral. One of the most important positions for such a big move is that of the senior dev ops engineer/build release engineer. This role will help automate server provisioning, code deployment, and management of server configuration, so […]

Five Predictions for the Connected Enterprise in 2014 A new IDC study titled “U.S. 2014 SMB Corporate-Owned and BYOD Mobile Device Survey” confirmed that small to midsize businesses (SMBs) are now the driving force behind the rise in BYOD adoptions. The study predicts that BYOD will continue its strong presence in the workplace, with SMBs […]

Six Reasons Business Should Pay Attention to Social Marketing According to a recent study from LinkedIn of nearly 1,000 small to midsize business (SMB) leaders, eight in 10 SMBs use social media networks. The study’s results have been published in an eBook format titled, Priming the Economic Engine: How Social Media is Driving Growth for […]

For hiring managers and human resources, being able to screen job applicants online sounds like a simple way to pare down the pile of potential employees. After all, it seems everyone has an online presence in some form. And using social media and other online accounts makes it easy to click through and find out […]

Top Issues Affecting SMB Employees Today The Windows XP end of support (EOS) date of April 8, 2014, is rapidly approaching, but many small to midsize businesses (SMBs) have yet to make the leap to a more up-to-date version. The reasons why vary—some lack the manpower and budget required to update 200 or more computers, […]

Five Tips for Executing a Winning Mobile Strategy To spur sales of Windows smartphones in the UK, Nokia is offering free 30-day loans to small to midsize businesses with 100 or more employees. It hopes that since many SMB IT operations use Microsoft products, they might be more apt to consider trying out the Windows […]

Seven Reasons Marketers Must Pay Attention to Big Data For small to midsize businesses that have already embraced the digital age, gathering and using actionable data will help move them ahead of competitors in the market, including larger enterprises. In the days before digital marketing and business intelligence gathering, smaller businesses had a difficult time […]

Contrary to popular belief, meetings can be a positive experience in the workplace. Although many reasons come to mind when you consider how meetings can be ineffectual, proper planning can keep meetings on track, on time and on point. According to the Garbuz blog, one reason many people don’t like attending meetings is because they […]

HP is bringing software-defined storage to the small to midsize business (SMB) market with its HP StoreVirtual 4335 Storage system. The StoreVirtual 4335 is a hybrid storage appliance that combines tiered SSD and traditional hard disk storage. SMBs can use the HP StoreVirtual 4335 system to provide tiered storage at the sub-LUN level, where blocks […]

Access control usually requires that a user is given access to perform a specific operation on an object which they have been given permission to access in a specified way (e.g., a user editing a Word document). Their ability to access the file is a result of permissions granted to them due to their assignment […]

Twelve Cloud Storage Services for Work and Play Microsoft and GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name register and Web-hosting company, have partnered to bring additional productivity and management solutions to small businesses. The partnership focuses around GoDaddy offering Office 365, an email and productivity service, and cloud storage to small business users through one of […]