Lauren Simonds

No small business owner enjoys the countless intrusions in any given workday, annoying interruptions that keep you from being productive and efficient. But those daily disturbances are nothing when compared to the digital intrusions waiting to assault your network and — literally — bring your business to a crashing halt. Intrusions are computer attacks that […]

Backing up your data definitely falls into that unpleasant category of things-you-know-you-should-do-every-day-but-don’t — like flossing your teeth, eating more fruits and veggies or exercising. Spare Backup Inc, a Palm Desert, Calif.-based tech company aims to take data backup off that list with Spare Backup, an automated service it designed for SOHO businesses with one-to-six people. […]

Does it ever seem like it’s easier to search the Internet to compare the migratory patterns of the African and European sparrow than it is to find last month’s sales projections on your company’s network? If you’re searching the Internet with Google, you’re probably right. But what if you could harness Google’s search technology for […]

Never one to sit back and rest on past accomplishments, Iomega recently announced new improvements to its 200d line of entry-level NAS storage servers and a brand new line of NAS products designed to give SMBs enterprise-level features at an affordable price. Iomega originally introduced the 200d Series last year. The newly refreshed series retains […]

The Internet, e-mail and networking technology have all contributed to expanding growth and competitiveness for SMBs. But as good as technology’s been for small business, it also has a darker side that can put your company at risk for both civil and criminal liability — we’re talking pornography, people. Inappropriate and illegal images — inappropriate […]

Small businesses get spammed a lot — not to be confused with Spamalot, the new Broadway play based on the movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Popular culture aside, small businesses rarely have either the time, money or IT resources that big companies have to spend on eradicating spam. Postini, a Redwood City, Calif.-based […]

Small businesses often struggle with data backup and recovery for a variety of reasons. Until recently, it was because finding an affordable, easy-to-use system that didn’t require constant monitoring came under the heading of Mission Impossible. In the last few years, however, storage solutions that address the needs of small businesses have been popping up […]

Just about any small business owner who’s tried to find an available domain name ending in .com can tell you it’s like trying to find the proverbial needle in a haystack. Nearly every word you can come up with has been dot-commed, and that’s left SMBs looking for other top-level domains (TLD) suitable for marketing […]

CRM, the trendy, “must-have” application for successful sales teams across the country, takes a new turn today as NetSuite announces NetCRM-Services Edition, a program designed with the specific needs of services-based companies in mind. Focused on tracking client service rather than closing deals, NetSuite says its Services Edition fills a major gap in traditional on-demand […]

Customer relationship management, or CRM, is a pretty hot topic for SMBs these days, or so it seems from the number of CRM-related products that we’ve seen lately. And it’s no wonder — a good CRM program can help you track sales, organize opportunities and consolidate leads so that you can improve efficiency, increase sales […]

SMBs with mobile workers needs to think very carefully about protecting the notebooks their employees use while on the road, at home and — with the growing popularity of Wi-Fi hot spots — anywhere in between. Employees logging on and off of various networks are vulnerable to hackers, digital vermin of all kinds and data […]