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Microsoft Celebrates US Small Businesses with Office 365

Microsoft’s Office 365 is increasingly popular among small and medium businesses around the world, and is seeing increased adoption in the United States as well. Made public in June last year, the cloud service has attracted customers of all sizes, yet the main target for it is the small and medium business a...

19 May 2012
05:09 GMT

Cloud Adoption Increases Security for SMBs, Microsoft Says

Small and medium businesses have a lot to gain through adopting cloud computing, a recent research from comScore - sponsored by Microsoft - shows. Not only would these companies benefit from important time and money savings when adopting the cloud, but they also see increased security levels, the aforementioned res...

14 May 2012
12:11 GMT

Cloud Computing Delivers Significant Time and Cost Savings to SMBs, Study Shows

Cloud computing opens a variety of new opportunities for a wide range of customers, and the latest research conducted by comScore on small and medium businesses shows that. Through adopting the cloud, SMBs register significant cost and time savings, so that they can better focus on other areas, the study shows. O...

14 May 2012
12:01 GMT

Microsoft Rebrands Advertising for Small and Medium Businesses to “Bing”

This week, Microsoft announced more changes to the names of its products, in an attempt to make them easier to use. Not only will the company use other names for the Windows Live services available for Windows 8 and Windows Phone platforms, but it also announced that its “Microsoft Advertising” for smal...

3 May 2012
09:56 GMT

Synology DiskStation DS1512+ 5-Bay NAS Server Debuts

Synology, a company well known for its consumer and enterprise storage solutions, has just announced the introduction of a new DiskStation 5-bay NAS server targeting small and medium businesses, which is known as the DS1512+. When it developed the DS1512+, Synology concentrated on delivering high levels of reliabili...

1 March 2012
13:01 GMT

NEC 24-Inch AS241W AccuSync Display Targets SMBs

NEC recently expanded its monitor lineup with a new 24-inch value-driven model from the AccuSync series, specially designed to fit the needs of small-to-medium-sized businesses, schools and government offices. Dubbed the AS241W, this new 24-inch monitor joins the AS171, AS192, AS191WM and AS221WM displays in NEC&rs...

2 February 2012
08:40 GMT

Intel: Small Businesses Are Falling Behind in Cloud and Security

Intel released a report in which they observe the way small and medium businesses in the UK protect their data and their advancements toward cloud-based systems. According to V3, the results come from the Intel Small Business Index which is based on the answers provided by 3000 IT managers and employees from compani...

3 November 2011
03:59 GMT

Lexmark Color Multifunction Printers Revamped

Multifunction printers aren't something consumers actually use, but they are definitely common among businesses of all kinds, so Lexmark launching a pair of new ones isn't that unexpected. The two MFPs (multifunction printers) that Lexmark just announced are of the color laser type and bear the names of X...

31 October 2011
09:42 GMT

Unsafe Web Surfing Results in Security Breach For 40% of SMBs

Uneducated employees in the arts of the internet are the number one cause why small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) suffer security breaches, this being just one of the conclusions drawn by a study which questioned 200 IT decision makers. The survey, commissioned by GFI and performed by Opinion Matters was purpose...

13 October 2011
11:07 GMT

Imation Releases Data Protection and Data Archive Products

Small and medium businesses might just have a reason to feel overjoyed now that Imation has unleashed its newest collection of scalable storage hardware. Imation recently bought IronKey, but even as it works towards integrating the latter into its business, it is not idle on the customer front. Indeed, the co...

10 October 2011
08:40 GMT

SMB Computer Shipments Found to Have Grown in 2010

The situation on various IT market segments has been looked at by various analysts, and it seems that Techaisle has now taken its turn at releasing its own findings, this time concerning the SMB market.SMB is short for Small and Medium businesses, and Techaisle, being the global SMB IT market research and Industry A...

3 February 2011
06:26 GMT

EMC Releases New VNXe Storage Solutions for SMB

With all the growing needs for virtualization and centralized storage, EMC decided it was time to deliver its newest suite of unified storage systems, dubbed VNXe and intended for IT managers that do not specialize in storage.The new VNXe series from EMC is made for small and medium businesses.It is meant to be simp...

18 January 2011
05:51 GMT

Kontron Releases the First SBC to Use Intel's Atom E600C CPU

Made official just a few days ago, Intel's Atom E600C processor, code-named Stellarton, is already starting to be used in all sort of embedded solutions, Kontron claiming they are the first to release a small board computing (SBC) solution based on Intel's latest Atom CPU.Built to withstand the high tempera...

25 November 2010
09:36 GMT

Service Providers Need to Offer IT as a Service to SMBs Embracing the Cloud

Service providers must keep up with the evolution of customer needs and start providing them with comprehensive IT as a service offerings that span beyond their current portfolio of solutions. Inherent characteristics such as flexibility and adaptability make small and midsize business (SMBs) the perfect candidates i...

14 July 2010
11:37 GMT

Synology Brings Out a Pair of SMB NAS Devices

Over the past months, quite a few new NAS devices have debuted, eager to grab the hearts of as many network administrators as possible. Still, as the world moves forward, technology has to advance at the same pace, which means that the performance and security standards that NAS devices must adhere to evolve as well....

19 May 2010
08:26 GMT

Orange Intros New Plans for Small and Medium Businesses

Today, wireless services provider Orange UK announced the launch of new mobile plans aimed at small and medium businesses. According to the carrier, the new plans are meant to offer SMB customers an easier way of personalizing their options, so as to fit the plans with their needs. Orange has put the new plans in pl...

30 April 2010
03:47 GMT

Lenovo Intros ThinkPad Edge 14 and 15 Laptops

In order to address the needs of small and medium business for both affordability and productivity, Lenovo has been marketing what is currently known as the ThinkPad Edge line of laptops. These mobile PCs are designed in such a way as to best merge performance and productivity features with a sleek design. Now, after...

22 March 2010
05:01 GMT

BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express Available for Free Download

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion announced during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the launch of a free version of its BlackBerry Enterprise Server, and now it has made it available for download. The new BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express is a solution aimed mainly at small to medium sized busi...

1 March 2010
10:45 GMT

NEC Rolls Out Affordable Green Display for SMB Users

NEC Display Solutions of America has long been a manufacturer of commercial liquid crystal displays (LCD), one of its most popular items being the ASLCD73VX-BK from the AccuSync Series. Nevertheless, as it happens with all technologies, this product seems to have been outgrown by the industry and, now, the company ha...

2 February 2010
09:57 GMT

QNAP Expands Turbo NAS Lineup with the TS-410U NAS

QNAP Systems, a leading vendor of network attached storage solutions, continues to expand its line of Turbo NAS storage solutions with the introduction of its new TS-410U rack-mounted NAS server, a new product specifically designed to meet the requirements of SMB and workgroup market segments. The new solution can ac...

26 October 2009
11:55 GMT

Dell Unveils the Vostro 430 Mini Tower Desktop

As you have probably found out, Intel has recently updated its processor platform with the introduction of the much-anticipated P55 platform, featuring the chip maker's new LGA1156 socket and compatible Core i5 and Core i7 processors. Following the official debut of the new platform, a number of PC vendors have ...

1 October 2009
10:55 GMT

Iomega Unveils Four-Drive NAS for SMBs

Iomega, one of the world's leading vendors of storage products and solutions, has announced today the debut of its next-generation quad-drive desktop NAS appliance, the Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d. Designed with high-class EMC storage technologies, the new NAS is touted as an ideal device for small businesses, di...

27 August 2009
09:42 GMT

Dell Rolls Out the Vostro 1014, 1015 and 1088

Round Rock, Texas-based Dell, one of the world's leading vendors of personal computer systems, has just announced the expansion of its line of Vostro PCs, designed to meet the performance and design requirements of business users. The company is now expanding its lineup with the introduction of three new laptops...

12 August 2009
10:05 GMT

Microsoft Communication Services Available

Microsoft Communication Services was created in an effort to help partners market hosted unified communications to small and midsize business customers. Designed as a partner initiative, Microsoft Communication Services is available to both hosting providers and resellers. The Redmond company underlined that the prog...

15 July 2009
07:38 GMT

ASUS Teams Up with Intel, Offers New Motherboards for SMBs

ASUS, one of the world's leading vendors of computer platforms and a pioneer in the fast growing market for netbooks, has recently announced the launch of a couple of new motherboards, specifically designed to meet the requirements of customers in the SMB segment. According to the Taiwanese company, the new prod...

29 June 2009
06:24 GMT

ZyXEL and D-Link Announce 802.11n Solutions for SMBs

Two of the industry's leading providers of networking products, ZyXEL and D-Link, have recently announced the introduction of new enterprise and business-class access points, designed to take advantage of the features enabled by the latest wireless 802.11n specification. Both solutions are designed to provide su...

21 May 2009
04:39 GMT

Netgear Launches Rack-Mount NAS for SMBs

Netgear, one of the world's leading vendors of high-performance networking products, has just announced the introduction of its new rack-mount product for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs).Simply dubbed ReadyNAS 2100, the new 1U 4-bay storage system from Netgear is said to be capable of allowing SMBs to s...

11 May 2009
10:31 GMT

New Main Remote File Protocol for Vista RTM/SP1

Although the Server Message Block remote file was originally introduced in the 1980's, the first major overhauling it suffered was with the availability of Windows Vista RTM in 2007. SMB2, as it was labeled in Vista RTM, was subsequently updated the following year, with the introduction of Windows Vista Service ...

9 December 2008
10:10 GMT

Lenovo Intros New ThinkServer Lineup

Today, at Interop in New York, Lenovo, one of the leading manufacturers of portable computer systems, has announced a new lineup of products, specifically designed to provide small and medium business users with a reliable server platform. The company's new ThinkServer line of products is meant to offer an out-o...

16 September 2008
08:03 GMT

Dell Intros New PowerEdge Server for SMBs

On Monday, Dell announced its new PowerEdge T100 server system designed to meet the increasing demand in the small-and-medium businesses market sector. Coming to extend the company's PowerEdge portfolio, the new T100 system has a starting price of only $449, and is currently available directly from the company&#...

9 September 2008
06:42 GMT

Size Does Not Matter in the Security World

According to a recently released study conducted by McAfee Avert Labs entitled "Does Size Matter? The security challenge of the SMB", most organizations believe that simply because they are not well known enough, they will not be targeted by hacker attacks. Just to put things in perspective, there are about 6.4 milli...

28 July 2008
04:22 GMT

HP Launches ''Shorty'' Server System

Hewlett-Packard announced the launch of a new blade server system that according to claims from the manufacturing company, will allow small and medium sized companies to easily setup and configure a data center inside a box. As the medium companies are becoming more and more interested in high performance server syst...

14 September 2007
10:57 GMT

Dell Virtualizes The SMBs

A new expression is floating around the computer industry for sometime now and it started to stir some pretty strong waves. The said expression is "virtualization" and it refers to both a concept and a practical technology. Using this technology a single physical server can assume the role of many "virtual machines" ...

8 September 2007
06:15 GMT

IBM to Support India's SMBs

Emerging markets are always important for computer manufacturers and vendors as they can find there new revenue sources and even places to vent some of the older products that are no longer demanded on the traditional markets. For well known and established companies it is important to get to every emerging market as...

24 August 2007
06:48 GMT

AMD Virtualizes Everything

AMD is going to support and encourage the extensive use of virtualization technologies on the small businesses servers and as the company declared, they hope to gain access in the SMBs space in the next 18 months. Barcelona will arrive on the market in the same general period, so AMD's declarations may indicate ...

26 July 2007
07:43 GMT

IBM Develops Cheaper SMB Solutions

If this is the first time you encounter "Express Advantage" and IBM in the same context, then you probably don't know anything about IBM's own SMB program. Then again, if you do, you've probably noticed some serious underground changes that have "affected" IBM's global website. In a few words, IB...

24 May 2007
11:15 GMT


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