ANTenna Blog -- May 24, 2009 - May 30, 2009 Archive

Business Owners Need A Holiday

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 07:35 PM ET | May 29, 2009

With every dime precious, taking time off from work, much less an actual vacation, might seem to be an unthinkable luxury, but it turns out that small business owners are planning vacations this summer at about the same rate as last year.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Entrepreneurs | Management

Obama Cybersecurity Plan: What's In It For SMBs?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:53 PM ET | May 29, 2009

New cyberczar (though no names yet), management from the top, calls for more coordinated cybersecurity efforts, privacy protection -- same old same old, or does the unveiling of the Obama administration's cybersecurity plan promise real changes in the government's approach to scuring cyberspace. More importantly, what's in the plan for small and midsized businesses?

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Business & E-Business | Government | Security

Linux And Active Directory: Learning To Live Together

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 11:54 AM ET | May 29, 2009

Looking for a good way to integrate your company's Linux desktops with Microsoft Active Directory? Novell just might offer the easiest solution -- but it certainly isn't the only game in town.

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Hardware & Software | IT | Linux | Networking & Communications | Open Source | Windows | bMighty

Big-Time Data Warehousing At Small-Biz Prices

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 08:34 AM ET | May 28, 2009

Open-source software gives smaller companies access to enterprise IT tools -- without paying enterprise IT prices. And no IT vendor illustrates this trend better than Kickfire.

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Business & E-Business | Hardware & Software | IT | Linux | Open Source | Start-Ups | bMighty

bMighty Gives Away Computer To Business Owner

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 08:04 PM ET | May 27, 2009

Earlier this year, bMighty launched a PC Giveaway contest and now we're pleased to introduce you to that deserving small business owner who won.

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bMighty

Small Businesses Positioned For Post Recession Economy

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 02:45 PM ET | May 27, 2009

Echoing the bMighty mantra, Wired's Chris Anderson declares that the new economy emerging from the meltdown favors small over large.

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Business & E-Business

Spam Surge: 9 Out Of 10 E-mails Can't Be Good!

Posted by Keith Ferrell 02:24 PM ET | May 27, 2009

90% of all email was spam last month, according to Symantec's MessageLabs Intelligence Report, just released. The figure is up more than 5% in the last month. Good news, I guess, is that things can't get much more than 10% worse from here.

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Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Messaging | Security | Social Networking | bMighty

Small Biz Focus with Cisco Router, Switch Enhancements

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 01:48 PM ET | May 27, 2009

While much of the attention recently has been on Cisco’s Nexus router line, the company rolled out a number of enhancements to its legacy lines. Improvements were made to the company’s Integrated Services Routers (ISR) and Catalyst 4500 and 6500 switches, so these products offer more network integration, are more energy efficient, and do a better job of supporting unified communications (UC) applications.

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Networking & Communications

Cloud-Based Supply Chain Management Offers SMBs Flexibility

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:12 AM ET | May 27, 2009

For small and midsize businesses that outsource manufacturing, managing the supply chain is crucial to success. Moving the cloud can allows business, customers, and supply partners lower costs and maintain flexibility.

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Cloud Computing

Summer Security: Don't Put Backups In The Trunk

Posted by Keith Ferrell 02:55 PM ET | May 26, 2009

Temperatures are starting to rise outside -- and when they do, you can bet they're rising even faster in trunks and locked cars. Which are two of the places you should never put media you're transporting. And according to a data recovery specialist, they're also two of the most common locations for media in transit -- and two of the most common sources of data damage.

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Backup | Business Continuity | Disaster Recovery | Hardware & Software | Security

Microsoft Rethinks Its Win 7 Netbook Strategy

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 02:10 AM ET | May 26, 2009

Microsoft, it seems, is thinking twice about a key limitation it had slated for its netbook version of Windows 7.

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Business & E-Business | Hardware & Software | Strategy/Analysis/Biz Dev | Windows | bMighty