Drew Robb

Last week EMC, the computing storage giant, held its annual EMC World show in Las Vegas. The event featured 15,000 customers, most of them from large companies. As such, the presentations and product exhibits were very much geared towards enterprise users. But there were some small business storage gems available, if you knew where to […]

The concept of server virtualization has caught on at many small businesses – consolidating many poorly utilized servers onto a handful of physical boxes and creating a large number of virtual servers. Now the same idea is catching fire with regard to desktop computers. The appeal is obvious. Why put up with all the hassle […]

You’ve no doubt planned and prepared your small business for a great 2013, but unless you protect your company’s data, you’re courting catastrophe. Don’t think for a moment that because your business is small that your data storage, backup and protection needs are, too. “From a data protection standpoint, smaller businesses face challenges that are […]

VMware, a leading IT virtualization and cloud technology company, is a familiar name to midsized and large enterprises. But its small business virtualization presence has been somewhat limited, until now. At this week’s VMworld 2012 show in San Francisco, the company announced a range of virtualization tools to make the technology far more accessible to […]

Server virtualization has been with us in Windows computing for about 10 years. During that time, many small businesses have embraced the technology to get more bang for their server buck and also to improve storage efficiency. In some cases the value proposition that server virtualization offers small business owners is a no-brainer. But for […]

The fact that small businesses can expect to store more data than ever before is nothing new — they’ve been experiencing that reality for years. But this relentless trend continues. Similarly, server virtualization has been a major buzz word in small business circles for a couple of years now — and it, too continues. Small […]

Server virtualization is one of the most popular tech trends going today, and it seems as though everybody is jumping on the small business virtualization bandwagon. But does virtualization make sense for your small business? In this small business guide to virtualization, we’ll explain what virtualization is, the associated benefits and drawbacks, whether it makes […]

The Lortu Data Appliance (a.k.a., LDA-Mini) is basically a small business server for storage, albeit a tiny one; the device is only slightly larger than a standard hard drive. You can also use it to send a copy of your data over the Internet to a remote server for additional data security (this second aspect […]

Is your small business on the cusp of stepping up to its first server, or do your small business server needs require a more sophisticated feature set? From entry-level file servers to blade, rack-mount and virtual, HP offers a range of servers suitable for small business and beyond. Our experts at ServerWatch track the latest […]

Updated 5/10/2011 Small Business Computing Compares Inkjet Versus Laser Printers Back in 2005, we compared color ink jet printers with laser printers and came out overwhelmingly in favor of laser printers for small businesses. In the intervening years, however, it seems the inkjet may have closed the gap. In a few cases, particularly the more expensive business-class […]

Benjamin Franklin, who famously said, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,” isn’t normally associated with small business storage. But if old Ben were around today, he might add data growth to that list. “Sit includes software for easy scheduled backups and continuous data protection,” said Shannon.  “You […]

Nearly all large enterprises have sophisticated disaster recovery plans in place. They create secondary sites in remote locations that come online if anything should go wrong with the primary data center. They replicate data so that additional copies are available should hardware fail. And they have data backups of everything, store tapes offsite and institute […]