Kim Mays

Six Features to Explore Before Choosing Your Next Phone System Vonage has announced it will acquire Vocalocity, a cloud-based telecom, to try to gain more small to midsized business market share. Vocalocity is based in Atlanta and specializes in VoIP phone systems for smaller businesses. The company also provides data analytics, data mining and call […]

Five Steps to Improve Marketing Effectiveness with Big Data Small businesses that rely on Google’s analytics data to gain customer data will now have a more difficult time doing so. Just a few weeks ago, Google changed to secure search, which will now restrict the data users can gather through Google Analytics. This change will […]

Database developer skills are often wide ranging and complex, thus it can be difficult to pin down the right candidate when hiring for a DB development position. To assist you in creating a job description that will capture the right talent for the job, our IT Downloads section includes the sample Job Description: Senior Database […]

Six Reasons Business Should Pay Attention to Social Marketing Early in the summer, I noticed quite a few social media intern positions on some of the online job boards. Although I could see how it would make sense to some companies to get their feet wet in social media without spending much money, it gave […]

IT organizations are always looking ahead when creating networks for the enterprise. When it comes to IPv6, WLANs and other next-generation network technologies, IT pros may still need guidance on how to implement the technologies, which standards apply, and how to provide security measures. One book, “Building Next-Generation Converged Networks: Theory and Practice,” provides fundamental […]

For IT security professionals, the game is to always stay a step ahead of hackers, security standards and governing regulations. The best way to keep on top of everything is research—reading up on the latest threats, vulnerabilities, and secure hardware and software. The book “Information Security Management Handbook,” is one detailed source for all things […]

Five Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Cloud Platform Solution It seems that most SMBs have or are considering adopting some sort of cloud computing technologies. Recent surveys, like this State of SMB IT Report from Spiceworks (registration required), have shown that 61 percent of SMBs are using cloud-based technologies in some form within their […]

Nine Everyday Processes That Aren’t Paperless Yet, But Should Be Pioneer of online financial transactions, PayPal, has enhanced its offerings to SMBs in the past year to include its mobile payment system, PayPal Here, in the U.S. and UK. It is also allowing its customers to pay at the register at millions of merchants via […]

Doman Name System (DNS) handles translation of domain names and IP addresses for the enterprise. Because its data is served to and from the Internet, it is intended to be accessed by any computer in the world that is on the Internet. DNS security is mostly concerned with authenticating the source of the data and […]

Five Ways IT Can Increase Customer Engagement For those small to midsized businesses that haven’t yet converted their websites to mobile, Wix has launched a new platform that automatically converts websites created within its platform into an optimized mobile version. The company already provides an easy-to-use HTML5 web-dev platform that has been a favorite among […]

What Business Leaders Need to Know About Virtualization Data protection is a huge concern for any company. For SMBs, many challenges to protecting virtualized data may not be as pertinent in the enterprise, but they still create a seemingly insurmountable problem. According to the Veeam Annual Data Protection Report for 2013 (registration required for download), […]

The Six Deadly Sins of Project Management Leadership Project management has become more than just a supporting role to businesses. For many organizations, it is an integral part of getting things done, and the many tasks associated with managing projects goes beyond the scope of work of a few project management professionals (PMPs). In such […]