1,900 SMB information technology professionals were asked in a Symantec global survey what they know about security threats and how they prepare for them. Half of the responders said they do not have major concerns about IT security threats (keystroke logging, distributed denial of service a[...]
Archive for the ‘Small to Medium-sized Businesses’ Category
Future Surge in Virtualization
According to Gartner, 30% of businesses by 2014 will be using recovery-as-a-service (RaaS) for backing up and restoring virtual machines. The prime candidates driving this trend will be midsized businesses. Currently, only 1% of midsized companies utilize RaaS, but it was just this year that HP, IBM[...]
Google+ Gearing Up For Businesses
Businesses will soon be able to create Google+ Pages to advertise on the social networking site. Similar to Facebook, Google+ users will be able to add businesses to their Circles and recommend them with the +1 feature (similar to the “Like” feature on Facebook). Google’s senior vi[...]
Windows Intune to Benefit Small Businesses
Microsoft’s cloud-based remote PC management tool, Windows Intune, is gearing up for enterprise use. The director of the project, Alex Heaton, had this to say: “The first version of Windows Intune didn’t have all the capabilities that all of our on-premise products do, so that slo[...]
June 28th, 2011 - 4:14 pm § in Cloud, Industry News, Small to Medium-sized Businesses, Software, Uncategorized
Microsoft Launches Office 365
After months of beta testing, Microsoft’s Cloud-based version of Office has been released as Office 365. This new BPOS (Business Productivity Online Suite) allows users to access Microsoft Office applications through either the online Cloud or the on-premise version of Office Professional Plus[...]
