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and changing needs. Read this analyst brief to learn SMB storage best practices, and learn about Quantum’s new additions to the SMB storage market.

Right now every data center, no matter the size, is experiencing unprecedented growth within its data storage environment. This analyst brief discusses the data management needs of small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) in regards to backup and archiving.

With growing storage needs, SMBs need to seek out solutions that are...

software suppliers see the small-medium sized business (SMB) sector as a key growth opportunity. However the SMB sector is under-analysed and not well understood, compared to that of large enterprise and Government.

 

Key Findings:

 

• Leaders of SMBs, like those of larger enterprises, see IT as strategic and critical to their business operation and success

• SMB leaders recognise the potential for business impact of new technological approaches, like CRM, the cloud and mobile IT

• Their...

A common issue facing small and medium-sized business (SMB) manufacturers today is how to increase revenue and grow their business without significantly adding staff. Read this paper to learn five strategies used by successful SMBs. A common issue facing small and medium-sized business (SMB) manufacturers today is how to increase revenue and grow their business without significantly adding staff. With larger firms able to compete by drawing upon greater financial...

it comes to information protection. Symantec’s last SMB survey, for example, showed a high percentage of SMBs had failed to enact even the most basic protections. They were more focused on winning and servicing accounts than on dealing with intangible risks, such as loss of confidential information and cyber attacks, or so the thinking went.

That’s why the Symantec 2010 SMB Information Protection Survey is so surprising. It turns out that in the last 15 months, SMBs have...

Unified Communications and "earning its stripes" in the SMB market.

For KIS, success in serving the small to medium size business market, comes down to getting to know the customer and finding the right solution from a core group of trusted vendors. "We find the customer's pain point," says COO John Marciano. "It's about credibility, rapport and relationship - you have to earn your stripes." KIS, which stands for Keep IT Simple, has certainly earned its stripes through the years, growing to...

The VMware SMB Survey is designed to help small and medium businesses (SMBs) understand the benefits their peers are achieving with virtualization. It is also intended to provide SMBs with benchmarks on how their peers are getting the most from their investments in IT infrastructure. Continue reading to find out the results.

The VMware SMB Survey is designed to help small and medium businesses (SMBs) understand the benefits their...

This white paper features the results of Symantec's second SMB disaster preparedness survey, and provides recommendations to help your organization establish and maintain a successful disaster recovery strategy.

For the second year, Symantec’s SMB Disaster Preparedness Survey revealed that SMBs are not taking disaster preparedness for their computer and networking systems as seriously as they should. This lack of preparation has a significant impact on their customers...

paper highlights some of the issues around implementing SMB business continuity practices and provides guidance on developing an effective BC strategy.

SMBs can’t afford not to have a plan for continuous operations, especially when it comes to the computer systems, applications and data the business depends on to keep going — and growing. Like large enterprises, SMBs have to be aware of the catastrophic impact of unplanned data loss and system downtime. Most of the time, such...

Solution, which brings ultimate peace of mind to your SMB. Read on to gain insight on how Cloud Continuity's easy-to-use platform will help you eliminate downtime and increase productivity, all at SMB prices.

As the IT landscape continues to evolve, the importance of ensuring the continued operation of IT systems and their quick recovery has increased dramatically as well. We all know disasters can strike at a moment’s notice but with the right DR plan and backup tools in place, you...

This paper dispels some myths about BI in smaller companies and outlines the main options at your disposal. If you are a decision maker in a small or medium-sized company, you may be evaluating the need to implement business intelligence (BI) in your organization. But considerations about cost, IT resources and implementation times are intimidating you. This paper dispels some myths about BI in smaller companies and outlines the main options at your disposal.

In this paper you'll...

An SMB that can gather data from all of its relevant sources, distribute that data to the right people at the right time, and perform relevant analytics is well-positioned to make the smart, timely decisions that lead to success. Read this paper to find out what it takes to achieve this type of data-driven, intelligence operations.

A small to midsize business (SMB) with the ability to gather data from all of its relevant sources— like...

true business continuity, and learn strategies that other SMB IT departments are using to convince executives that business continuity technology is worth the investment.

Every small to medium-sized business (SMB) faces network failure and downtime at one point or another. And as you know, the more downtime you organization experiences, the more of an impact it has on your company’s bottom line. Today, however, we have the benefit of business continuity solutions, which ensure that...

CRM) analytics and how these factors complement the SMB market.

Business intelligence (BI) tools are an important element of customer service initiatives, but the high costs and difficult deployment of traditional BI serve as barriers for many companies. Recently introduced BI and analytics software, on the other hand, has been designed to better serve the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market.

This expert e-guide discusses next-generation BI software, in particular...

for SMBs.  Gain advice for tackling employee-based SMB vulnerabilities, the role of the CSO in 2020, incident response in the data age and additional SMB security tips.

Think your company is too small to be hacked? Think again. SMBs are just as exposed to risk as the enterprise when it comes to today’s top security threats.

Explore the expert handbook that discloses big security strategies uniquely designed for SMBs and learn why lackluster security strategies have left small...

Server 2008 R2 into your current infrastructure? In this SMB server school presentation transcript, learn about the various security considerations you need to address when integrating Windows Server 2008 R2 into your current infrastructure. The expert instructor will discuss how a Windows Server 2008 R2 integration will address security concerns such as identity management and remote administration.

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in business integration can be a serious impairment to any SMB, or even large company, in today's economy. Read this Presentation Transcript of the “Simplifying Business Integration” webcast to learn how to properly manage business integration with the right strategies.

Complexity in business integration can be a serious impairment to any SMB, or even large company, in today's economy. It does so by:

 

• increasing costs and consuming staff time
• ongoing changes becoming more difficult

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This whitepaper provides six tips for an SMB approach to protecting critical data. These tips used in conjunction with Double-Take Availability from Double-Take Software can help SMBs defend against crippling downtime and data loss. Just like major corporations, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are increasingly reliant on the critical data stored on their servers. Limited resources and vulnerability to interruptions put small and midsize businesses at...

implement business-grade endpoint security within your SMB and describes why anything less can be devastating to your business.

While the ideas of free security software and cheaper consumer-based security software are good in theory, these options simply do not provide the security today’s small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) require.

This resource lists the 10 best reasons you should implement business-grade endpoint security within your SMB and aims to convey why anything...

How can a small to midsized business (SMB) improve its ability to analyze data and transform it into useful information, thereby improving the overall quality of its decisions? With business intelligence (BI). Read this white paper for an introduction to the benefits of BI, approaches to implementing BI, what to look for in a BI product, and more.

Most small and midsize businesses (SMBs) have come to realize that the spreadsheets and other rudimentary information...

Even as your business demands ratchet up, your customers still expect high quality and top performance for the money they spend. So to remain competitive, your business must be able to deliver the value your customers want at the price-point they’re willing to pay. Read on to learn more.

Even as your business demands ratchet up, your customers still expect high quality and top performance for the money they spend. So to remain competitive, your business must be able to deliver the value...

how these innovations can be put to work in today's complex SMB IT environment.

Making effective use of information is a central focus of organizations both large and small, in our contemporary, competitive landscape. Information is an asset to exploit, without restrictions on bringing in new data, manipulating that data, or accessing that data.

In this webcast, we will discuss the following:

• Multiple, complex applications serving a variety of users
• Data warehousing is evolving

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The data center of every business, whether SMB or enterprise, needs to find its own sense of balance between simplification and optimization that needs to be attained in order to lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the enterprise information technology (I.T.) infrastructure. To learn how Dell can lower the TCO of your data center, read on.

The data center of every business, whether SMB or enterprise, also needs to find its own sense of balance. In this case, however, it is...

This paper provides an in-depth study of the virtualization and cloud solution market for medium and small businesses. The study provides evaluations of leading vendors to enable senior decisions makers to choose which vendors in the market offer the best solutions.

When deciding which vendor offers the best virtualization and cloud solutions, how can you qualify all the offerings available?  This paper provides the guidelines you need to make a decision. Inside find an in...

office, branch office, and small-to-medium business (SMB) networks, in a highperformance, easy-to-deploy purpose-built appliance. The Cisco® PIX® 506E Security Appliance delivers enterprise-class security for remote office, branch office, and small-to-medium business (SMB) networks, in a highperformance, easy-to-deploy purpose-built appliance. Its unique desktop design supports two 10/100 Fast Ethernet interfaces and two 802.1q-based virtual interfaces, making it an exceptional...

Small and mid-sized businesses are a market that has been underserved by data protection software, appliances and online backup services until the last few years.Yet, these organizations have the same needs as large enterprises to protect their data. Full-time, dedicated IT resources are often beyond their means.

Small and mid-sized businesses are a market that has been underserved by data protection software, appliances and online backup services until the last few years.

Yet...