ANTenna Blog -- June 07, 2009 - June 13, 2009 Archive

Grab Your Company's Facebook Username TONIGHT!

Posted by Fredric Paul 12:01 AM ET | Jun 13, 2009

At 12:01am EDT Saturday morning (or 9:01pm PDT Friday Night), Facebook will let you attach an identifiable username to your profile -- and those that you administer. Don't miss your chance!

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Business & E-Business | Internet/Web | Sales/Marketing | Social Networking

Paying The Price For Proprietary Data Formats

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 06:08 PM ET | Jun 12, 2009

Most small businesses won't notice the impending death of Microsoft Money. Perhaps they should.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Finance/Accounting | Hardware & Software | Hardware & Software

Working With Security Service Providers: What Every Small Business Should Know

Posted by Fredric Paul 04:11 PM ET | Jun 12, 2009

Our friends at DarkReading say choosing the right security provider is only the beginning. The real keys lie in setting expectations and building relationships - you can't just hire a security provider and forget about it.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 50-249 | Security | Software-as-a-Service

IT Snooping: Too Much Ado About Something?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:58 AM ET | Jun 12, 2009

There's been a lot of buzz lately about internal threats, and like most buzz, some of it's on-target. But some of it seems designed to make us paranoid about our employees -- to what end? Do we need to distrust everyone on our IT staffs and, by implication, everyone in our companies? And where does that get us?

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Business & E-Business | Entrepreneurs | Finance/Banking/Insurance | HR | IT | Security

Linux Plans To Be First On The USB 3.0 Bandwagon

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 10:54 PM ET | Jun 11, 2009

What should your business know about USB 3.0? It's almost ready for the mass market, it's extremely fast -- and Linux will be the first OS to support it.

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Backup | Hardware & Software | IT | Linux | Open Source | Storage | Windows | bMighty

Building 43, PartnerUp Debut New And Upgraded SMB Communities

Posted by Fredric Paul 10:39 PM ET | Jun 11, 2009

Rackspace Cloud tees up Building 43, while Deluxe enhances its PartnerUP site.

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Business & E-Business | Cloud Computing | Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Internet/Web | Sales/Marketing | Services | Social Networking

Will Small Businesses Be The Last Bastion Of Desktop PCs?

Posted by Fredric Paul 07:55 PM ET | Jun 11, 2009

According to Intel, small businesses are one of the few remaining markets for the venerable desktop computer.

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Hardware & Software

Taking The Pain Out Of Data Integration

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 06:28 PM ET | Jun 10, 2009

Data integration is a big headache for smaller businesses. Can Jitterbit's "no coding" software solution offer a remedy?

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Business & E-Business | Hardware & Software | IT | Open Source | Strategy/Analysis/Biz Dev | Web 2.0 | bMighty

Video: Web 2.0, Social Networking and The Consumerization of Technology: Friend or Foe?

Posted by Fredric Paul 12:00 PM ET | Jun 10, 2009

On Wednesday, June 10 at 12:30pm Eastern time, I'll be a guest on "Industry Perspective Series" of video Webinars, presented by Zenith Infotech and MSPtv. Please join me as I talk about some of the hot-button issues and opportunities that SMBs face in regards to Web 2.0, social networking and the consumerization of technology. I'll be talking about what the technology can and can't do for your business, offering tips, and sharing warnings.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Social Networking | Web 2.0 | bMighty

You're Secure. Now What About Your Vendors And Providers?

Posted by Keith Ferrell 09:54 AM ET | Jun 10, 2009

Having spent time and resources securing your own network, shouldn't you make sure that your customers, vendors, and providers have made the same effort?

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Business & E-Business | Business Continuity | Cloud Computing | Internet/Web | Networking & Communications | Security

Google Changes its Outlook

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 06:35 AM ET | Jun 10, 2009

Vendors often must maintain a delicate balance, promoting their own products but not ignoring those from competitors. Google has been making a push to become more of force at the desktop with its Google Apps suite. Recently, the company enhanced the product, so it can be integrated with Microsoft’s Outlook email package.

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Messaging

How To Calculate Your Odds Of Business Success

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:18 AM ET | Jun 9, 2009

Calculators provide clear concise answers -- that's the appeal, but for a question as complex and abstract as "will my business succeed" reducing probability to a single percentage is more parlor trick than useful tool -- fortunately a new free online calculator looks (a little bit) deeper.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 50-249 | Entrepreneurs | Management | Operations | Start-Ups | Tips

Apple Upgrades, Price Cuts Make Macbooks/iPhones More SMB Friendly

Posted by Fredric Paul 05:05 PM ET | Jun 8, 2009

As expected, Apple's announcements at its Wordwide Developers Conference brought us a new Mac OS (Snow Leopard), a faster iPhone with some other enhancements (iPhone 3GS), and some changes and price cuts to the Macbook line. Nothing earth-shaking, really, but all in all they do help to make Apple products more useful, and more affordable, for small and midsize companies.

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Apple

Ethernet Poised for Another 10 Fold Bandwidth Increase

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 03:53 PM ET | Jun 8, 2009

Are your 10G Ethernet connections becoming saturated? If so, help may soon be on the horizon. One of the industry’s most influential network equipment suppliers has developed a network interface card that supports 100G Ethernet, perhaps foreshadowing an impending move to the faster speed.

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Networking & Communications

Trend Micro Tightens Defenses Against SMB Data Leaks

Posted by Keith Ferrell 12:07 PM ET | Jun 8, 2009

The latest version of Trend Micro's data loss protection (DLP) package, LeakProof 5.0, comes in two flavors: one for monitoring users and confidential data, the other covering those elements, but also providing tools for protecting intellectual property as well as confidential information.

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Business & E-Business | Finance/Banking/Insurance | Security