ANTenna Blog -- September 06, 2009 - September 12, 2009 Archive

Students (Your Future Employees) Like Macs

Posted by Jake Widman 08:37 PM ET | Sep 11, 2009

According to a survey touted by Windows-on-Mac vendor Parallels, 36% of undergraduates plan to purchase a Mac, and many of them plan to run Windows software on it. SMBs might want to consider planning to accommodate such flexible platform choices in making their IT decisions -- after all, these students will be in the workforce within five years.

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

What Is E-Mail Worth To Your Company?

Posted by Fredric Paul 01:01 PM ET | Sep 11, 2009

These days, small businesses have a wide range of e-mail options, ranging from on-premise Microsoft Exchange servers to cloud-based Web mail -- and everything in between. And prices range as widely as the technology, from free on up.

Lunch With Salesforce.com And Twitter

Posted by Fredric Paul 09:18 PM ET | Sep 9, 2009

Salesforce.com put on a fancy lunch spread at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco this afternoon to celebrate the launch of its Service Cloud 2 upgrade, and Twitter was invited. But I already blogged that... so I was more interested in what the cloud computing and social media bigwigs had to say about customer service. And they didn't disappoint.

Snow Leopard Not A Game Changer: The View From IT

Posted by Jake Widman 09:14 PM ET | Sep 9, 2009

Enterprise IT executives say they're stuck with Windows, despite Snow Leopard's support for Microsoft Exchange. SMBs, on the other hand, have more freedom to accommodate their employees' preferences.

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Apple | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 50-249

Desktop Death Watch: Don't Hold Your Breath!

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 07:21 PM ET | Sep 9, 2009

Yet another pundit has proclaimed the death of the desktop. I'm not planning to send any flowers just yet.

Verizon Offers Mobile Management Help

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 12:34 PM ET | Sep 9, 2009

How can you control the growing number of smartphones making their way into your enterprise? Finding an answer to that question has been keeping IT managers up at night. Verizon, one of the nation’s largest carriers, has decided to try and help small and medium businesses solve that problem.

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Mobile

Wordpress Hack And Other Patch Problems Demand Patch Policies

Posted by Keith Ferrell 11:52 AM ET | Sep 9, 2009

The recent Wordpress hack, affecting older, unpatched versions of the blogware, as well as the raft of critical patches Microsoft released yesterday make this a good time to review -- or implement! -- an effective patch policy.

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Business & E-Business | IT Management | Networking & Communications | Security | Windows

New Intel Xeon 3400 Processors Lead To New Dell SMB Servers

Posted by Fredric Paul 10:29 AM ET | Sep 9, 2009

The new 3400 series Xeon server processors are designed for 1U entry-level servers, and Dell has responded with four new 1-socket servers using the new chips, starting at less than $600. Plus new NAS storage and 28 new power supplies.

Salesforce.com Upgrades The "Service Cloud"

Posted by Fredric Paul 01:14 AM ET | Sep 9, 2009

Service Cloud 2 adds the new Salesforce.com Answers and brings Salesforce.com Knowledge and Salesforce.com for Twitter out of beta and into general availability.

SMBs Aware Of Benefits Of Power Management, But Not Doing Much About It

Posted by Fredric Paul 08:37 PM ET | Sep 8, 2009

A new survey by Dimensional Research for KACE reveals that smaller companies are more likely to understand the cost benefits of desktop power management, but less likely to have a green initiative in place.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Green Business | Hardware & Software | IT

Mid-Market Heroes: SMBs Say Color Really Does Make A Difference

Posted by Fredric Paul 12:01 PM ET | Sep 8, 2009

Printer companies are always talking about how color printing can make a difference to small and midsize companies -- making marketing materials more effective and .... Frankly, the arguements always sounded like little more than semi-desperate attempts to sell more toner.

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Printers/Printing

Adventures with Snow Leopard

Posted by Jake Widman 10:36 PM ET | Sep 7, 2009

Based on my experience, businesses should not be afraid to upgrade to Snow Leopard. But they should be prepared to deal with a few cleanup tasks, so they shouldn't do it on deadline and should work out any kinks on a non-mission-critical machine first.

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

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