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Entuity Shifts Network Management Focus

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 09:36 AM ET | Nov 17, 2009

Management tools can tell small and midsize businesses a lot about their IT equipment: how much bandwidth is available, who is sending the largest files, and where data flows are slowing down. What many companies are more interested in, though, is which services are available, so Entuity revamped its management suite to deliver such features.

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Energy Management Features Added to Spiceworks

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 01:34 PM ET | Nov 16, 2009

Cost containment has become the company mantra recently. In response, many small and medium businesses are trying to reign in their runaway IT energy costs. Spiceworks became the latest vendor to try to attack that area, with a new energy management tool, one designed with Intelýs help.

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New Macintosh Online Support Service

Posted by Jake Widman 12:57 PM ET | Nov 9, 2009

Founded by longtime Mac consultants and support providers MacSupport.com offers technical help by phone and via remote access. Best suited for small and home businesses, the support is available on an ad hoc basis and is priced per problem.

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Apple | Company Size: 1-49 | IT | Management

Small Business Economic Forecast: Cautious, With A Chance Of Pay Cuts

Posted by Fredric Paul 03:14 AM ET | Nov 5, 2009

A CDW survey finds that as the economic malaise drags on, less than half of SMBs are still optimistic about growth. SurePayroll, meanwhile, also notes drops in optimism, perhaps because small business salaries are taking a dive.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 50-249 | Economics | Finance/Accounting | IT | Management | Sales/Marketing

What Midmarket CIOs Care About Most

Posted by Fredric Paul 10:55 AM ET | Oct 8, 2009

Business analytics and self service, according to the newly released midmarket portion of IBM's 2009 Global Chief Information Office Study, but CIOs of high growth companies have different priorities than those at slower growing organizations. Finally, no matter what size firm they represent, CIOs face a similar set of conflicting goals and contradictory roles.

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Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | IT | Management

Solarwinds Tweaks IP WAN Voice Monitoring Tool

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:12 AM ET | Sep 30, 2009

Increasingly, businesses are moving their voice traffic from the old telephone network to IP networks. However, this application is especially vulnerable to performance variations often found in IP networks. Solarwinds, which has been gaining acceptance by offering companies inexpensive, easy to deploy network performance tools, revamped its IP WAN tool to help companies meet this challenge.

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SMB Business Systems Vendor Acquired By Enterprise IT Specialist

Posted by Jake Widman 08:27 PM ET | Aug 12, 2009

Versata, an IT solutions provider to Fortune 500 and other large companies, has acquired Everest Software, a business management software vendor.

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SiSense Beefs Up SMB BI Tool

Posted by Jake Widman 02:52 PM ET | Aug 10, 2009

The maker of the Prism information visualizer has announced PrismCubed, an easy-to-configure business intelligence (BI) product aimed at smaller businesses.

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Tips For Virtual Offices

Posted by Jake Widman 03:07 PM ET | Aug 7, 2009

The Worldwide Workplace Council has released a report titled "5 Simple Steps to a Virtual Workplace Program," which identifies how SMBs can achieve the flexibility and employee satisfaction that can come from telecommuting.

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Spiceworks Improves MSP Features

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 02:27 PM ET | Jul 27, 2009

Network and system management has been a problem for many small and medium businesses. Traditionally, these systems were cumbersome to deploy and difficult to manage. Spiceworks has had some success in this market segment by delivering a free (yes free!) system and recently enhanced its product, so third parties can more easily provide managed services to these businesses.

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Spiceworks 4.0 Adds Visual Mapping, Twitter, And More

Posted by Fredric Paul 10:20 PM ET | Jun 16, 2009

The latest version of the popular free IT management tool for SMBs adds the ability to visually map your company's IT network, Twitter integration, and 3rd-party management plug-ins from Microsoft, LiveOffice, Intel, and Trend Micro.

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Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 50-249 | IT | Management | Social Networking

Netbooks.com Becomes WorkingPoint, Re-Launches Free* Cloud-Based Business Management App

Posted by Fredric Paul 11:22 AM ET | Jun 16, 2009

What's in a name? For Netbooks.com, it was confusion when the business-management vendor's name became the common term for low-cost mini-laptops. So the company is relaunching as WorkingPoint.com as it takes its small-business management app out of beta.

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Open Source Management Line Evolves to Ecosystem

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 06:25 AM ET | Jun 16, 2009

A management tool is only as strong as the number of devices that it can control. Consequently, once network management systems become popular, vendors try to extend them, so they work with other devices. One popular open source product has recently been enhanced, so it can interact with other vendorsý products.

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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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Keep TOS Changes From Burning Your Business

Posted by Matthew McKenzie 04:28 PM ET | Jun 4, 2009

Many small businesses fail to notice when an online service provider changes its terms-of-service agreement. It's a case where what you don't know can very definitely hurt you.

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