ANTenna Blog -- August 30, 2009 - September 05, 2009 Archive

7 Times As Many SMBs Use Twitter To Find Deals

Posted by Fredric Paul 07:12 PM ET | Sep 4, 2009

Warrillow & Co. says small busineses are a whopping 700% more likely to use use Twitter than other social networks when looking for promotions and discounts.

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Business & E-Business | Company Size: 1-49 | Sales/Marketing | Social Networking | Web 2.0

Red Hat's Virtualization Game Plan Looks Like A Winner

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 10:03 PM ET | Sep 3, 2009

Red Hat Enterprise Linux isn't just for enterprise users. And neither are the virtualization tools baked into Red Hat's latest release.

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Hardware & Software | IT | Linux | Open Source | SMB Vendor News

Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7, Continued: Fighting The Last War

Posted by Jake Widman 07:22 PM ET | Sep 2, 2009

The operating system battle is a diverting sideshow, but the real battle is going to be over the next hardware platform. SMBs may not have embraced netbooks yet, but how will they feel about the iTablet?

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Apple | Cloud Computing | Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Hardware & Software | Internet/Web | Mobile

SMB And ERP: No Longer Mutually Exclusive Terms

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 06:20 PM ET | Sep 2, 2009

It has been a very good week for open-source ERP developers -- and for small businesses that can benefit in a big way from the solutions they offer.

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Business & E-Business | Cloud Computing | Company Size: 1-49 | Hardware & Software | Open Source | SMB Vendor News | Software-as-a-Service

Facebook Bug Month

Posted by Keith Ferrell 10:42 AM ET | Sep 2, 2009

A researcher plans to unveil a raft of Facebook vulnerabilities in September, one every few days or so. Which means a regular reminder to remind employees and staff to take care when social networking.

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

Gmail Goes Down – Again

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 07:25 AM ET | Sep 2, 2009

Google has been aggressively positioning its Gmail mail service as an alternative to Microsoft’s Exchange line and had a great deal of success in the small and medium business sector. However, the service’s reliability has been an ongoing concern, and it was knocked offline once this week.

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Cloud Computing | Company Size: 1-49 | IT | Messaging

New Salesforce.com Contact Manager Edition Designed For VERY Small Businesses

Posted by Fredric Paul 01:01 AM ET | Sep 2, 2009

The new Contact Manager Edition of Salesforce delivers several Salesforce.com features for managing business contacts and customers, for $9 per user per month -- but only for 1-2 users!

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Cloud Computing | Company Size: 1-49 | Sales/Marketing | Software-as-a-Service

Windows And Linux Users Get Another Great VM Option

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 08:06 PM ET | Sep 1, 2009

Parallels, Inc. is a company best known for its Mac-based virtualization software. This week, however, it finally delivered an updated version of its Windows- and Linux-based products.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Hardware & Software | Linux | Open Source | Windows

Aerohive Networks Attacks Wi-Fi Network Overloads

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 09:12 AM ET | Sep 1, 2009

Wireless communications have become quite popular in small and medium businesses. As companies rely more heavily on these connections, it has become difficult to make sure that there is sufficient bandwidth to support important applications. To address that problem, Aerohive Networks enhanced its network monitoring tools.

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Mobile

New Survey Questions SMB Interest In Netbooks and Cloud Computing

Posted by Fredric Paul 09:16 PM ET | Aug 31, 2009

The results of a new Spiceworks survey shows that while more than half of small and midsize companies are using some form of cloud computing, they're still showing caution about fully embracing the technology. And only 13% of SMBs say they plan to buy netbooks. All this as the Great Recession forces SMBs to hold on to computers longer and cut key projects.

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Backup | Company Size: 1-49 | Disaster Recovery | Hardware & Software | IT | IT Management | Security | Services

Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7: Does It Matter?

Posted by Jake Widman 01:38 PM ET | Aug 31, 2009

As President Obama said, the media loves a ruckus. But should SMBs really care about the alleged Snow Leopard-Windows 7 throwdown? And is the OS where the real battle is anyway?

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Apple | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 50-249 | Hardware & Software | Windows

Data Breach Silence Breached: 5 Good Security Tips

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:23 AM ET | Aug 31, 2009

For every high profile big headline data breach, there are plenty of others that are kept quiet. A good piece in Informationweek takes a peek behind the curtain of quiet and offers some solid lessons in how to avoid having your data compromised.

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Security