Paul Mah

Are you currently in the midst of implementing a disaster recovery plan in your small or mid-sized business? I outline three tips to help get you going in the right direction. Be Pragmatic While it is tempting to write down enthusiastic objectives to recover from just about any disaster, I think small businesses need to […]

The anxiety that comes from losing your mobile phone connection — or the phone itself — is common enough these days that there’s a name for the phenomenon: mobophobia. That stress is bad enough, but it’s nothing compared to losing the device and losing your mobile data, too. You can easily replace the mobile device […]

The latest version of RIM’s Playbook tablet OS is out and the reviews are in. Our reviewer, Paul Mah, takes a closer look at the business-oriented features this tablet offers and discusses the mobile devices strengths and weaknesses. Is the version 2.0 upgrade a winner that can compete with Android and iOS?

The Dell XPS 14z, a powerful, mid-sized small business notebook in an elegant anodized aluminum body, measures less than an inch thick with the lid closed. Dell positions the XPS 14z as a premium offering suited for businesses, and claims it is one of the thinnest, full-featured notebooks with a 14-inch display that also comes […]

We’ve all heard about the dangers of data loss, the importance of data backup and, in particular, ensuring that your key small business data is adequately protected. This is why most small and mid-sized businesses, and even SOHOs these days, make use of NAS appliances with at least RAID 1 configured for data mirroring protection. […]

It used to be that companies banned, or at least heavily discouraged, the use of personal technology devices at work. But times have changed with the rapid popularity of smartphones and tablets, and now more companies encourage the use of employee-owned mobile devices; so much so that the trend has its own catchphrase — the […]

You may be familiar with the term phishing, but how good are you — or your employees — at spotting a phishing attack? Given how effective phishing attacks are at fooling people into divulging personal or company information, it’s an important skill to hone to improve small business security — and one that most people […]

For all the initial hyperbole about cloud computing, the fact is that the cloud has grown in reliability and gained acceptance in large enterprises and small businesses alike. As such, small and mid-sized businesses that have been reluctant to consider the cloud in the past may now be looking to implement selective cloud-based services in […]

Looking to ditch your notebook in favor of a tablet or even a smartphone? The late Steve Jobs famously spoke of a “post-PC” era when unveiling the iPad 2 early last year. Yet in spite of the tablets and smartphones that many of us own, reaching for our notebook is probably still a regular occurrence […]

Small business owners have plenty to occupy their working hours, and that can make keeping up with security issues problematic. But your business data and the network it travels over are the life blood of your organization, so it literally pays to keep abreast of threats that can shut you down. Paul Mah takes a […]

Server virtualization, one of the hot technology trends, offers a way to improve efficiency, to consolidate IT resources and to save money on infrastructure and power consumption. The first step for small businesses interested in driving down the road to server virtualization is a self-assessment, and CDW offers one for free. Check it out.

It seems small businesses are getting used to the idea of having an off-site, third party company manage their hardware and data. So much so that cloud service use is up considerably in a very short time, according to a new study from Spiceworks. Our blogger Paul Mah weighs in on the subject.