Tag: business

  • SMB Adoption of Smartphones, Tablets Growing

    Channel Insider Staff

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    A survey of small and midsize businesses found owners are accelerating the shift away from desktops and laptops and moving toward the latest technology and gadgets such as smartphones and tablets. The findings were published by Portfolio.com, a business news site for SMB executives and entrepreneurs. Part of a proprietary study conducted by The Business… Read more

  • Google Introduces Flexible Pricing Plan Business Apps

    Nathan Eddy

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    Five years after the launch of Google Apps, the company is offering a flexible pricing plan designed to help small and midsize businesses. For customers who sign up online, Google is adding the Flexible Plan, a new $5 per user, per month pricing option which requires no contractual commitment. With this plan, businesses can add… Read more

  • Dumping Product Sales for Managed Services

    Jessica Davis

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    Are you calling yourself a managed services provider but still making most of your money from other revenue streams?  Jim Hare, vice president of sales at eGestalt, says that only about 10 percent of the channel who say they do managed services actually have a full fledged managed services business. The others are dipping toes… Read more

  • SMBs Can Benefit From Virtualized Disaster Recovery

    Channel Insider Staff

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    While the first wave of virtualization has consolidated server hardware into virtual hosts and recognized significant savings in physical machines, small and midsized organizations must now consider the impact of this consolidation on their backup and disaster recovery plans, according to a report from QuorumSoft. By encapsulating workloads that can be shifted between physical hosts… Read more

  • Technology Services Group Acquires Concentrix

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    Technology Services Group has acquired IT software and services company Concentrix. The company called the acquisition a “key step” in the growth strategy of TSG that will provide “significant capability” in customer relationship management (CRM) software implementation, one of the company’s target growth areas. The acquisition is the 24th for TSG since its inception in… Read more

  • MicroStrategy Updates Business Intelligence Software With Visual Insight

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    Business intelligence software provider MicroStrategy announced that MicroStrategy 9.2 comes with a new feature, Visual Insight, that helps business people explore data to get the answers they need without assistance from their IT teams. In addition, the latest release includes features that allow organizations to embed even more information into interactive dashboards and further extend… Read more