The bMighty Blog -- May 2008 Archive

Mozilla's Add-On Army (Finally!) Makes Its Move

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 02:02 PM ET | May 30, 2008

As Firefox 3 takes its final steps towards a final release, some users are wondering whether their favorite extensions will fall by the wayside. As it turns out, most of them won't have to wonder -- or worry -- much longer.

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Hardware & Software | Internet/Web | Open Source

New Backup Options Blur The Line Between Physical and Virtual Storage

Posted by Fredric Paul 11:41 AM ET | May 30, 2008

NovaStor's new NovaBACKUP 10 data protection and disaster recovery software for Windows lets small busineses store data locally and online in the cloud.

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Cloud Computing | Storage

Are Your Employee's Phones Secure? All Of Them? Really?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:41 AM ET | May 30, 2008

Can a single unsecured smartphone compromise your business's security? Looks that way -- and that should make you look hard at who's got phones in your company, and how they're using them.

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Ultra Low-Cost Laptops: A Viable Option For SMBs?

Posted by Fredric Paul 07:04 PM ET | May 29, 2008

No one likes to spend more than they have to on a computer. And no one likes to carry around more weight than they have to. You'd think that would make a killer combination for ultra-low-cost ultra-portables like the Asus eeePC, OLPC XO, and HP 2133 Mini-Note. And now a new teeny tiny machine is on the way from Dell.

But don't throw away your traditional notebook just yet.

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Hardware & Software | Mobile | Open Source

Secure Computing Tells Where Your Biggest Insecurity Is: Inside Your Company, That's Where!

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:01 AM ET | May 29, 2008

What are IT security professionals most scared of? Their companies' own employees, that's what.

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Apple Hasn't Forgotten Tiger Users

Posted by Alan Zeichick 06:20 PM ET | May 28, 2008

If you're still running Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" on some or all of your Macs, Apple released two updates for you today.

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The Fourth Iteration of Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" Is Here

Posted by Alan Zeichick 06:17 PM ET | May 28, 2008

Apple today released its third major update to Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard." The update, technically referred to as Mac OS X 10.5.3, is a whopping 420MB download. Given the number of things addressed by the update, I recommend that business users move to adopt it after carefully testing it in their own environment.

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Women In Business Are A Hot Topic

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 04:01 PM ET | May 28, 2008

Yesterday, on bMighty a businesswoman was front and center. Today, on SmallBizResource you'll find the third installment of Wednesday's Woman. A coincidence? Hardly. Women and business are hot and not likely to cool anytime soon.

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Entrepreneurs | Sales/Marketing | Women in Business | bMighty

Cellular Modems Move into the Mainstream

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 02:00 PM ET | May 28, 2008

What do you think was the hottest networking technology in 2007? Power over Ethernet switches? No. Unified Threat Management security systems? Guess again. VoIP phones? Nope. Try cellular modems, whose sales rose by an astounding 300% from year to year.

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Mobile | Networking & Communications

Exinda Tunes Up WAN Optimization Appliance Line

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 04:17 PM ET | May 27, 2008

WAN optimization was once solely under the aegis of large corporations. Recently, vendors dropped the prices points for these products from tens of thousands to a few thousand dollars, so interest among small and medium businesses is picking up.

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Networking & Communications | Technology/Telecom

What Drives Mac Speed? Hard Disks!

Posted by Alan Zeichick 01:31 PM ET | May 27, 2008

I had the opportunity last week to work with a new MacBook Pro, one that's about year newer than mine. Performance on the new model was much faster. Why? Because of the hard drive's speed. That's one place where you should choose carefully.

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Apple

Mob Making Cyber Moves: Organized Crime Versus Disorganized Defenses

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:58 PM ET | May 27, 2008

The news that organized crime is now a bigger cyber-havoc player than independent hackers isn't surprising: as Willie Sutton said of banks in the last century, the Net is now "where the money is."

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A Search Engine Just For IT

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:24 AM ET | May 27, 2008

Paglo is launching the beta version of its search engine for IT and its ability to let IT departments search and get information about their networks and the devices on it just might mean a few less headaches.

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IT | Networking & Communications

Time Machine Full-Disk Behavior Is Making Me Nervous

Posted by Alan Zeichick 02:08 PM ET | May 24, 2008

Yesterday, one of the Leopard-based iMacs experience a strange Time Machine error — and that error is making me uneasy about the possibly buggy backup software.

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Small Businesses Look To The Web For Recession Relief

Posted by Fredric Paul 05:57 PM ET | May 23, 2008

When the going gets tough, small businesses get on the Web. At least, that's the impression you get from Register.com's new Small Business Web Survey.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Economics | Internet/Web

Stretch Your Budget With Acrobat Alternatives

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 04:55 PM ET | May 23, 2008

If you're looking for a free, functional alternative to Adobe Acrobat, then I have bad news and good news. Here's the bad news: No single application can do everything that Acrobat does. Here's the good news: No single application tries to do everything that Acrobat does.

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Hardware & Software | Open Source | Professional/Creative Services | Windows

TVA 's Scary Security Lapses Have Big Lessons For Small And Midsize Businesses

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:09 AM ET | May 23, 2008

The news that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) -- the largest U.S. public electric utility -- is riddled with security lapses should give pause to cybersecurity watchers and worriers everywhere. And the nature of those lapses should be a reminder to every business in the country.

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Why You Should Pay Your New Hires To Quit

Posted by Fredric Paul 05:47 PM ET | May 22, 2008

No, this is not a joke. Online shoe-retailer Zappos.com actually offers its trainees $1000 to quit after the first week. And The Harvard Business Review explains why it's a good idea.

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Is Microsoft About to Change How Search Gets Done?

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:43 AM ET | May 22, 2008

Microsoft has offered to pay consumers who use its Livesearch engine to find and buy stuff. For smaller businesses, the important question is this: Is this going to change how search gets done?

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Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Retail | Sales/Marketing

LIVE TODAY: bMighty bConnected Virtual Expo for Smaller Business

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 10:45 AM ET | May 22, 2008

Being connected is everything for smaller businesses -- without connections to customers, to partners, to suppliers, to employees, and to the market, business grinds to a halt. Today (May 22), bMighty presents bMighty bConnected, an interactive online event all about being connected and communicating. You can join the virtual expo right from your desktop.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Mobile | Networking & Communications | bMighty

CompTIA Survey: What Causes Most Breaches Is The Same Thing The Road To Hell Is Paved With

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:43 AM ET | May 22, 2008

Findings from a new survey indicate that most security breaches aren't the result of malicious intent. Problem is, more than a few are the result of good intentions.

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Twice the Fun, With the 2X ApplicationServer's Mac Client

Posted by Alan Zeichick 08:49 PM ET | May 21, 2008

There are quite a few ways for Macintosh users to run Windows applications from their Mac, without having to reboot their machine into Windows using Apple's BootCamp software. Some of these other approaches are very familiar, but they're not the only solutions.

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Are SMBs Turning Green?

Posted by Fredric Paul 05:19 PM ET | May 21, 2008

A new HP survey says companies in the U.S. and Europe are paying at least some attention to green issues, at least when it comes to printer-related issues. But there's plenty of room for improvement.

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Citrix Tries to Transition to The Virtual World

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 10:12 AM ET | May 21, 2008

Citrix has built a successful business by delivering solutions that minimize the amount of software that users run on their desktops. Because the industry is embracing virtualization, the company is in the process of dramatically retooling its lineup.

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Top 10 Small Business Marketing Frustrations

Posted by Fredric Paul 09:11 PM ET | May 20, 2008

Did you know there is something called the 2008 U.S. Small Business Marketing Frustration Survey? Neither did I 'till it turned up in my Inbox. Apparently, the biggest issue is the inability to consistently follow up with prospects.

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MOLI's Multitasking Approach to Social Networking for Smaller Business

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 09:00 PM ET | May 20, 2008

With today's launch of a small business center, MOLI has set its sights on some the people least likely have a distinction between work and personal life: those in smaller businesses.

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Survey Says: Midsize Companies Catch IT Funk

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:09 PM ET | May 20, 2008

A new survey by CDW warns that midsize companies are catching the pessism from their small business compatriots.

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Think Before You Toss: Symantec Security Tips On Computer Disposal

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:06 PM ET | May 20, 2008

Getting rid of old computers gets trickier every day. A Symantec podcast offers three minutes' worth of good advice on how to do so safely.

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Facebook Just Might Be the Smaller Business' Best Marketing Tool

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:13 AM ET | May 20, 2008

If you are among those who firmly believe that Facebook offers nothing to business but a way for their employees to waste time, you are not alone. But as the social networking tool grows in popularity, it seems increasingly likely that it could be redefining the whole concept of marketing.

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Alcatel-Lucent Makes a Major Push into SMB

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 06:56 AM ET | May 20, 2008

Many small and medium businesses would like to deploy unified communications solutions. The problem has been that piecing together one of these systems can be difficult, time consuming, and expensive. Alcatel-Lucent is the latest vendor trying to change that.

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Messaging | Mobile | Networking & Communications

Who Says You Can't Make Money Blogging?

Posted by Fredric Paul 01:15 PM ET | May 19, 2008

Some people will tell you that you can't make money blogging. Don't tell that to Ken Fisher and Jon Stokes. They just sold their Ars Technica blog to Conde Nast for a reported $25 million.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Internet/Web

The World of Web 2.0 Can Bite Back

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:37 AM ET | May 19, 2008

Introducing Web 2.0 elements to your website -- blogs, wikis, live chats, chat rooms – is a great way to connect with your customers and create a community of users. But once you establish that connection and create that community, you'll need to tread carefully. Because now your customers can let you --and often your other customers -- know exactly what they think.

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Check Point Pushes Virtualized Browser Protection

Posted by Keith Ferrell 09:58 AM ET | May 19, 2008

Browser vulnerabilities and threats -- malware, drive-by downloads, etc. -- is fast becoming the new security battleground. A new Check Point Technologies release promises that this will be a new security products battleground too.

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If The Onion Rips Your Business, You're Toast

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:33 PM ET | May 16, 2008

These days, it seems like the humorists are smarter than the analysts. Beyond The Daily Show's nightly truth-telling, The Onion has a unique ability to continually cut to the heart of the matter. Even, sometimes, when it comes to business issues.

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Still Laughing at Twitter? You Might Be Laughing All the Way Past the Bank

Posted by Naomi Grossman 10:59 AM ET | May 16, 2008

Of all the social networking services, who would have thought Twitter, with its mini messages being sent with an immediacy that often belies that content, would be touted as a useful business tool? Smaller businesses, you might not want to pass this one by.

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Business & E-Business | Mobile | Sales/Marketing

Open-Source VNC: Remote Access Made Easy (And Free!)

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 07:43 AM ET | May 16, 2008

There are a lot of great remote access tools available these days, and some of the very best happen to be open-source software. Read on if you would like to learn more about a couple of my personal favorites.

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bMighty bConnected: We're Hosting A Free Virtual Expo!

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:02 PM ET | May 15, 2008

Communications and connectivity are critical components for many small and midsize businesses, so on Thursday May 22 bMighty is gathering top vendors and analysts to share their insight, understanding, and best practices in an interactive online event available right from your desktop.

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Symantec Spam Report: April Was The Cruelest Month

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:42 AM ET | May 15, 2008

Symantec's monthly Spam Report is out, just in time to remind us of what our queues and filters and networks all know -- spam is up and so, most likely is the blood pressure of everyone who has an e-mail account.

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It's All About the Keywords

Posted by Naomi Grossman 10:26 AM ET | May 15, 2008

Search engine marketing is one of the most effective ways to get customers and clients to your Web site. But if your site isn't popping up high on those searches, there is almost always one thing you're doing wrong: It all comes down to choosing the right keywords.

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Avaya Predicts Unified Communications Will Grow From The Bottom Up

Posted by Fredric Paul 03:15 PM ET | May 14, 2008

Most observers think of UC as a big enterprise technology that will eventually trickle down to small and midsize companies. But there’s another possible approach: UC may be more likely to trickle up from consumer services into the business world.

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Microsoft Office 2004 for the Mac Users Get Their Own Update

Posted by Alan Zeichick 12:07 PM ET | May 14, 2008

Yesterday, we discussed Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac. The company also released a minor update for Office 2004 for the Mac, bringing it to release 11.4.2

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McAfee Spam Experiment Results: Spam Is Bad And There's Lots Of It

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:47 AM ET | May 14, 2008

All spam all the time -- that's what volunteers for McAfee's Global S.P.A.M (Spammed. Persistently. All. Month.) experiment looked for, and that's what they got when they turned in their brand-new, completely unprotected machines and opened themselves to the deluge.

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A Better Way to Ease Disaster Recovery Chores?

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 10:19 AM ET | May 14, 2008

Every company fears an unforeseen event, such as a fire, flood, or hurricane but needs to be prepared for such catastrophic possibilities. Such preparation has been time consuming, tedious and often ineffective, so vendors are trying to streamline the task.

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That's One Way To Choose A Technology Vendor

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 12:15 AM ET | May 14, 2008

Smaller businesses rely on partners to design, customize, install, support, and service their technology needs from infrastructure to customer-facing applications and everything in between. That makes the choice of vendor every bit as crucial, as the software, hardware, and services they provide. There are myriad reasons to select a particular vendor, but the latest third-party data on their quality could help inform a tough decision.

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Microsoft's First Update to Office 2008 Is Big. Literally.

Posted by Alan Zeichick 09:31 PM ET | May 13, 2008

Office 2008 for Macintosh is off to a roaring start, according to Microsoft. In its first four months, the software sold faster than any other version of Office for Mac, the company says. And now the software is getting better, or at least less buggy, with Service Pack 1 now available.

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You Think You've Really Destroyed That Data? Take A Look At What Got Recovered From Shuttle Columbia

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:31 AM ET | May 13, 2008

The loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its crew in 2003 continues to haunt many of us -- and, unexpectedly, has offered a lesson in the persistence of hard disk data.

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Hardware & Software | IT | Security | Storage

Should Smaller Businesses Twitter? Some Say Yes

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:13 AM ET | May 13, 2008

Social networking has met its match in Twitter, whose dedicated users are fixated on SMS-ing or IM-ing their "tweets" in the small space allotted by the messaging service. But what can a smaller business do with the 140 character limit to generate business? Apparently, a lot.

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Mobile | Networking & Communications | Sales/Marketing

Firefox 3.0 Release Schedule Update

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 08:15 AM ET | May 13, 2008

In a previous post, I mentioned that we would probably see a Firefox 3.0 release candidate before the end of the month. Based on a senior Mozilla developer's recent remarks, that estimate looks to be right on track.

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OpenOffice.org Readies Its Mac Attack

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 07:27 AM ET | May 13, 2008

Mac support has never been a big selling point for OpenOffice.org. Fortunately, this is about to change in a big way.

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Apple | Hardware & Software | Open Source

Stamp Costs Are Up. E-Mail Costs Are Not

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:33 AM ET | May 12, 2008

The US Postal Service is increasing the costs of stamps again. It'll now cost you 42 cents to mail a letter -- and you'll have to dig deeper to mail other items also. But the price of sending an e-mail hasn't changed.

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Hardware & Software | Sales/Marketing

Email Overload Drains Corporate Productivity

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 07:00 AM ET | May 12, 2008

How much time do your employees spend sifting through and responding to their email messages? Do you think they know how to perform that task well? What are some of the prime missteps that users often make?

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iPhone Update May Be Coming Soon

Posted by Alan Zeichick 07:49 PM ET | May 10, 2008

As of Saturday, May 10, the iPhone is currently out of stock at the Apple Store, including both the 8MB and 16GB models. That can mean one of two things.

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The Next-Generation iPhone: It's Nearly Here, We Hope

Posted by Alan Zeichick 08:42 PM ET | May 9, 2008

The original iPhone is a GSM handset that uses the EDGE wireless network as well as WiFi. While the iPhone is a marvel of multimedia usability, it's not at the cutting edge of mobile networking. That may be about to change, if stories are true about the forthcoming debut of a 3G iPhone.

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Data Center Conservation: Some Practical Tips

Posted by Naomi Grossman 12:37 PM ET | May 9, 2008

Jack Pouchet, the director of energy initiatives at Emerson Network Power, believes companies can reduce 50 percent of the power consumption in their data center, if they tried just a little. Is your small or midsize business interested?

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Green Business | IT | Operations

Backscatter Spam Spreading, Bouncemail Battle Heats Up

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:56 AM ET | May 9, 2008

Have you been backscatter or bounceback spammed yet? No? Be patient -- if your e-mail address has ever been published on the Web, the odds may be against you.

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Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Messaging | Security

Getting Windows Audio/Video Files into Your Mac

Posted by Alan Zeichick 03:39 PM ET | May 8, 2008

The world is filled with multimedia files, and if you receive files from a Windows user, it may be in a Windows format. The challenge can be to play them on your Mac, and to import them into iTunes.

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Apple

Reliability Study Serves Up Good News For Linux Users

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 01:47 PM ET | May 8, 2008

A 2006 research study caused an uproar when it reported that Windows Server 2003 was more reliable than Linux. This year's results tell a somewhat different story -- at least in terms of which side wins the bragging rights.

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Web Text: They're Not Reading Much So Keep it Short

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:29 AM ET | May 8, 2008

Recent research into the reading habits of the average Internet user reveals what we've all long suspected: those visitors to your site are not reading much. The lesson for smaller businesses is obvious: Tighten up that copy and remember to make those words that you put up there count.

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More On Disaster Recovery: Mind The Gaps In Your Plans

Posted by Keith Ferrell 01:49 PM ET | May 7, 2008

We've talked a lot here about disaster recovery, and almost as much about planning for disaster recovery. In considering these, it's well-worth considering -- and looking for -- any hidden gaps or vulnerabilities that might bring even the best-laid plans to grief.

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Management Vendor Broadens Reach

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:51 AM ET | May 7, 2008

Systems and network management have been coalescing, so dividing lines between the two have become hard to discern. Consequently, it is not too surprising to see vendors in one of these areas moving more squarely into a new niche.

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IT | Management | Networking & Communications | Storage

Big Blue Thinks Smaller

Posted by Naomi Grossman 12:26 PM ET | May 6, 2008

IBM is launching a web-based application initiative for smaller businesses. The company is finally starting to realize there's real money to be made off small to midsize businesses. The question is what took them so long?

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Most Workplace Toilet Seats Are Cleaner Than Most Workers' Keyboards

Posted by Keith Ferrell 02:54 PM ET | May 5, 2008

The viruses in your computer can harm your computer's data; the viruses (and germs and bacteria and toxins) on your computer can harm you.

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Web 2.0: Videos Can Give Smaller Businesses an Edge

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:41 AM ET | May 5, 2008

On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog, goes the famous New Yorker cartoon. Nobody has to know you’re a smaller business either – and videos are one of the most effective ways to look bigger and impress the search engines, if you do it right.

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10G Ethernet Moving from Fiber to Copper

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 11:20 AM ET | May 5, 2008

Faster speeds are something that IT departments constantly desire. 10G bps transmissions have been relegated to backbone switch connections but are starting to make their way into servers and storage systems because of less expensive cabling.

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How Prepared Are You For Disaster Recovery?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 01:21 PM ET | May 2, 2008

If your business got hit by a natural disaster that resulted in your "losing everything" -- would that "everything" include your company's digital records and history? It shouldn't.

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Interop: Smaller Businesses Get Some Attention

Posted by Naomi Grossman 11:26 AM ET | May 2, 2008

There was lots and lots of focus on larger enterprises at Interop, but, if you looked for it, you could find that many tech companies are thinking more and more about the smaller business.

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Can Mozilla Build A Better Web App?

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 10:36 PM ET | May 1, 2008

A Web application is only as good as its delivery platform. Unfortunately, the two most popular choices, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, aren't very good at delivering Web applications.

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Open Source

Seething Booth Envy at Interop

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 08:37 PM ET | May 1, 2008

The surreal world of trade show meshes effortlessly with Las Vegas' disposable facades. With more than 500 tech businesses shoehorning their brands into artificially constrained spaces, jealously of all kinds oozes through the partition walls over booth size, location, and entertainment spectacle; size matters, but it all comes to down to the realtor's mantra of location, location, location.

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Interop Insight: Why Users Hate IT

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:27 PM ET | May 1, 2008

In case you haven't noticed, today's consumer products and applications routinely outperform -- and out "cool" -- their business counterparts. So no wonder users bristle when forced to make do with second-rate business solutions. But IT folks often make the situation worse.

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Apple | Company Size: 1-49 | IT | Internet/Web

Interop: The Scary Business of Data Privacy

Posted by Naomi Grossman 03:45 PM ET | May 1, 2008

With Interop taking place in the very unreal city of Las Vegas, it's easy to forget that a smaller business has anything to worry about. But the issue of privacy and database breaches is not only very real, apparently it's getting more and more real every day.

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