Kim Mays

Five Ways to Avoid Connectivity Perils and Improve Employee Productivity Research and Markets released the findings of its Global SMB IT Spending Market to 2016 report. Analysts predict that the global SMB IT spending to increase at a CAGR of 5.5 percent from 2012 through 2016. The report goes on to say that the reason […]

Mid-Market Cloud Services Adoption Trends As I discussed in a previous post, for small to midsized businesses, cloud backup services can simplify the process of backing up data and storing it offsite. Such services are available in many service levels and fit the budgets and data storage needs of a variety of businesses. Before a […]

Though certifications haven’t been in the news as much this year, indicators still show that they will remain important in the coming year for hiring managers. One particular certification that shows up in the top 10 on most every must-have-for-IT list is ITIL certification. Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certification trains its students to follow […]

Six Secrets Most Backup Vendors Don’t Want You to Know Data is the lifeblood of the business. Vast amounts of enterprise information is backed up, filtered, stored, retrieved and mined. For small to midsized businesses, dealing with data can seem daunting, though—especially when it comes to backup and recovery. According to a Spiceworks survey, the […]

Small businesses often lack a dedicated, in-house marketing and media position; hence, it’s often daunting for someone to keep up with myriad social media accounts in addition to another workload. So when it comes to tweeting business information, it can be sporadic and only remembered when something new needs to be announced. To keep SMB […]

A recent survey shows that although cloud adoption is on the rise, a number of organizations have yet to adopt the platform in any form. GigaOM Research and North Bridge Venture Partners, in collaboration with 57 other organizations, compiled the third annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey, in which only 25 percent of respondents had […]

Seven Criteria for Choosing an IaaS Provider NetSuite, a cloud-based business management software provider, has agreed to purchase TribeHR, a leading edge human capital management solution provider. The union will allow NetSuite to offer an integrated cloud software suite featuring ERP and HCM software. The new suite would be geared toward small to midsized businesses […]

Fifteen Hot Collaboration Apps for Android Google has unveiled a new utility aimed at the small business market: Google Maps Engine Pro. Using the mapping tool, businesses can utilize the location tool to create maps of databases with locations, names, addresses, and even sales leads included. These maps can then be viewed, changed, and analyzed […]

In large enterprises where high volumes of data travel across networks, encryption is often used to protect sensitive data. In such situations, cryptographic key management is as integral to data security as controlling who accesses this data. But often the amount of the data and the size of the organization makes this task extremely challenging—especially […]

Eight Ways to Avoid Explosive Rises in IT Costs In the U.S., small to midsized businesses are feeling more confident in their futures than they have been in several years, says the Sage Business Index for 2013. Sage Group conducted the survey of 11,000 SMBs from around the world from July through August and found […]

Though organizations may each have their own definition of what it means to be a business analyst, in the IT arena, information specialists/business analysts likely have a lot in common skills-wise. When searching for a strong information specialist for the enterprise, it may be surprising how many different types of resumes and lists of skills […]

Five Ways IT Can Increase Customer Engagement In a previous post, I wrote about Google’s recent change to secure search, which was taking away some keyword information that many small to midsized businesses rely on to gather information on Web content on their sites. This change has left many SMB webmasters wondering what to do […]