Dan Muse

In March, MicroNet Technology announced the Platinum NAS 4.0, At the time, Joe Trupiano, the company’s director of marketing, said the 1 TB version would cost $879 and the 4 TB version would sell for about $5,000. What a difference a few months make. Yesterday the Torrance, Calif.-based storage company unveiled the latest in its […]

Focusing on both major front-end and back-end renovations, FileMaker yesterday announced the release of FileMaker Pro 9, a popular small and mid-sized business database for Windows and Mac operating systems. “It’s the biggest release in nine years,” said Ryan Rosenberg, vice President of marketing and services at FileMaker. The new version focuses on making FileMaker […]

If the fact that Google sells search appliances to index and search your internal documents is news to you, that may soon change. You can expect to see a lot more of the Google Mini and Google Search Appliance as they make their way to store shelves and shopping sites. Google today announced that it […]

Small businesses that supply products to large retailers often live in two worlds. In order to do business with big companies they must send and receive information in Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) format. However, their own back-end systems are typically based on QuickBooks, Peachtree or other accounting software not designed to comply with EDI standards. […]

Successful small businesses tend to be masters of outsourcing functions that aren’t core to their expertise — payroll and human resources being two prime examples. If you pay employees or partners based on sales performance, outsourcing that part of your business may make sense as well. Looking to do for compensation services what ADP does […]

Hosted business application provider NetSuite has begun rolling out a major update to its suite of services, which include ERP, CRM and e-commerce applications. The version carries the new — and somewhat unwieldy — name of NetSuite 2007.0 and will be available to customers beginning today with all customers upgraded by August. “We’re now committed […]

IBM, and other blade server vendors, have been courting the small and mid-sized business market for years. Back in 2004, in fact, Big Blue reported that 30 percent of its blade sales came from SMBs (see IBM Cuts Blade Servers for SMBs). However, until today IBM didn’t have a BladeCenter offering designed expressly for small […]

If you own or manage a small business, mobility could be your middle name. Whether you’re developing new customers or servicing existing ones, things don’t get done if you’re sitting behind a desk all day. If NetSuite is your business application suite of choice, you may be happy to know that the Web-services provider today […]

In the old days, your marketing efforts would generate leads for your salespeople, who would (you hoped) follow up and turn those leads into prospects and those prospects into customers. In the world of online marketing, small and mid-sized businesses are looking to make marketing a more quantifiable part of the operation. Google Adwords, of […]

Apptix, a provider that specializes in offering hosted Microsoft Exchange for small businesses, wasted little time after its purchase of WebMessenger to announce the first product from the newly acquired company. After buying the provider of mobile IM products on Monday for $7 million, yesterday Apptix announced the release of WebMessenger Message Alerts for BlackBerry, […]

In a major upgrade of its system backup suite, Symantec today announced the release of Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 7.0. The new version is designed to speed the recovery process, add integration with virtualization technology and expand Microsoft Exchange and data recovery capabilities. The new release also adds support for Microsoft Vista, AMD and […]

Providing an efficient search tool for your company’s Web site — whether it’s an intranet or a customer-facing one — is important to ensure that everyone can find what he or she is looking for. Of course, if you can provide that without having to spend any money, all the better. That’s exactly what IBM […]