Recent Articles
-
Small Business Not Interested in Apple iPad
The technology spending freeze of late 2009 is showing signs of thawing among small to medium-size businesses, according to a survey by networking management specialist Spiceworks. The vast majority is seeing overall IT budgets and spending rise in the first half of 2010, according to the survey, State of SMB IT April 2010. The survey…
-
HP Still on Top as Lenovo, Toshiba and Asus Grew
Hewlett-Packard once again led U.S. and worldwide PC shipments in the first quarter of 2010, but it was the performance of a number of Asian OEMs that called for attention. While HP, Acer and Dell remained the top three market-share holders, Lenovo and Toshiba each posted significant growth, and Asus, for the first time, broke…
-
Cisco Targets Small Business with New Switches, VPN Firewall
Cisco Systems is rolling out a host of new networking gear and services designed to make it easier for SMBs to more easily leverage the Internet and grow their communications capabilities. Cisco’s new offerings, announced April 14, include a new family of unmanaged networking switches that offer small businesses Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity.…
-
Virtualization Vendor Parallels Integrates Google Website Services
Virtualization software maker Parallels is making it easier for hosting companies to offer their clients access to Google services. Parallels officials on April 15 announced that the company is integrating Google Services for Websites into its Plesk Panel 9.5 control panel. The integration will enable small businesses to more easily take advantage of Google Services…
-
Mezeo Takes its IT Service Provider Cloud Platform to Enterprise
Mezeo Software, a relative newcomer on the cloud computing scene, April 15 introduced a new version of its private-cloud storage platform for the enterprise. The company made the announcement at Storage Networking World in Orlando, Fla., which ends today. The Houston-based startup originally launched its cloud software in December 2008 specifically for the IT service…