Dan Muse

IBM took aim at Microsoft and Windows x86-based small business server dominance yesterday when it announced a new per-user pricing model and two new servers aimed at small and mid-sized businesses. The System i 515 Express is designed for companies with fewer than 40 employees. Prices start at $7,995, which includes five user licenses. Businesses […]

To say that big storage vendors have their eye on the small business market would be an understatement. HP, EMC, Dell, NetApp and others all are aggressively and — based on the results of this year’s Small Business Computing Excellence in Technology Awards — effectively selling to small and mid-sized businesses. Today, HP broadened its […]

There’s a saying about tools that goes something like this: “When all you own is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” The computer-world equivalent might be, “When all you own is a desktop PC, everything looks like a server.” According to Krista Satterthwaite, group manager of Industry Standard Server Marketing at HP, many small […]

“Small business” does not mean small storage needs. But you know that. Just as large enterprises face growing mountains of digital data and regulatory requirements to protect and preserve that data, small businesses struggle with storage planning as well. To help give you a little more elbow room when it comes to storage, MicroNet Technology […]

Apptix has a simple, but ambitious goal. Amir Hudda, the company’s CEO, said he wants to make buying hosted Exchange and Voice over Internet Protocol services as easy as it is to buy a book on Amazon.com. Apptix has for several years specialized in offering small businesses on-demand e-mail and collaboration products. However, today the […]

It’s no mystery what motivates a salesperson: It’s good, old-fashioned money. Salespeople naturally want to earn large commissions, which means large revenue for your business. It’s the ultimate win-win situation. Of course, tracking sales compensation can be a time-consuming task. Also, not having accurate, updated reports could take the competitive edge off your sales forces […]

Let’s face it. When it comes to the list of chores facing small businesses, backing up your servers ranks right up there with issuing your annual 1099 statements and having your building’s gutters cleaned. But you better have a backup plan in place if you want to ensure that your key business data is safe […]

In a move it says will provide small and mid-sized businesses with a more economical approach to network-based storage, Dell today announced the Dell/EMC CX3-10. The new entry-level storage area network (SAN) product, which will carry a Dell/EMC logo, is designed to provide data protection and availability for businesses with as few as 100 employees […]

It’s a question that’s beginning to permeate small and mid-sized business: Can virtual technologies solve real problems? Based on comments from analysts and products from VMware, the bellwether company of the virtualization market, the answer appears to be a yes. And that “yes” is a little more definitive based on an announcement by VMware. Today, […]

Promising enterprise-class features in a small-business package, Google today announced Mini 2.2, the latest model in its search appliance line. The new version is designed to add more features and improved security for both intranet and public-facing Web sites, said Kevin Gough, enterprise product manager at Google. For a small business’s internal data, Mini 2.2 […]

Small businesses sure seem to like Web-based e-mail, according to WebEx, which today announced that it is adding a hosted e-mail component to its WebEx WebOffice collaboration suite. WebEx points to research from the Radicati Group, citing that small businesses account for more than 64 percent of hosted e-mail users. However, unlike mail services such […]

Looking to provide small business owners with more control and flexibility for point-of-sale transactions, Microsoft yesterday announced at the Retail Federation Annual Conference & Expo at New York the release of Microsoft Dynamics — Point of Sale 2.0. Version 2.0 is now part of the Microsoft Dynamics family and is designed to improve the efficiency […]