Lauren Simonds

The latest news out of Round Rock, Texas involves five new servers that Dell says offer small business owners more incentive to move from desktop-based computing to server-based computing. Frank Muehleman, vice president of Dell’s small business division, said at a news conference yesterday that the new members of the PowerEdge server family will help […]

Running your own business requires a certain expertise in your given field, but in order to achieve long-term success, it also demands that you become fluent in a number of areas you might not otherwise explore or care about — technology being one excruciating example (and the reason for this site’s existence). E-mail marketing is […]

It’s time again for Sage‘s annual update of its ACT contact management software, but this time it comes with a slight twist. Today the company announced that, for the first time, it’s simultaneously updating the entire ACT by Sage product family. Sage says this upgraded line offers small companies “flexible deployment options” along with a […]

In September, Intel plans to announce a new technology platform designed to improve the management and security of desktop PCs. Called vPro, this platform integrates Intel hardware that, when combined with specific software, offers a range of capabilities including, according to Intel, remote desktop IT management, proactive digital-threat protection and increased energy efficiency. Systems bearing […]

We’re insatiable when it comes to data storage — it seems we just can’t get enough. What’s more, just “having” storage won’t do; we want to take it with us no matter where we go. Iomega tries to address both of those desires with two lines of external storage drives that come in two distinct […]

Iomega, the company that invented the Zip drive, is reinventing itself in a whole new way. While maintaining its core external storage business, the venerable company that redefined the sneakernet is taking its first steps toward becoming a managed services company. While some people may view managed services as an unlikely tangent for an external […]

While small-business storage needs continue to grow at an exponential rate, you may be glad to know that storage solutions designed to handle that data are actually shrinking in size as they increase capacity. Case in point: MicroNet‘s newest network attached storage solution, the PlatinumNAS 3.0, fits up to three terabytes of data into a […]

Companies that fall into the mid-market segment of business can have a tough time when it comes to finding the right IT products for their needs. They suffer from the technological equivalent of the middle-child syndrome — not big enough to grab the attention of the big IT vendors, but too large to take advantage […]

In an industry crowded with oddly named products, TrafficZug fits in with a memorable moniker that shrouds its actual purpose. However, business owners who want to take advantage of Internet advertising, but aren’t quite sure how it works, are the customers Affinity Internet had in mind when it created this paid search engine marketing tool, […]

If you own a business with 100 or more employees, chances are that IBM is not the first company you think of when it comes time to spend your IT dollars. If Big Blue has its way, though, that may change. For the past year, IBM’s had a group of people building a portfolio of […]

For all you do-it-yourselfers out there who want to build a Web site for your small business, you might be interested in the latest news from WebAssist, a San Diego, Calif.-based software development company. Today it announced the availability of Site Assist 3.0, an extension designed for use with Adobe Dreamweaver. An extension modifies or […]

What makes it possible for a one-woman business that started in a kitchen to evolve and grow into a multi-million dollar company with 35 employees? Megan Duckett, owner of Sew What — a company that specializes in theatrical draperies for stage, concerts, special events and trade shows — attributes her success to hard work, quality […]