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10G Ethernet Moving from Fiber to Copper

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 11:20 AM ET | May 5, 2008

Faster speeds are something that IT departments constantly desire. 10G bps transmissions have been relegated to backbone switch connections but are starting to make their way into servers and storage systems because of less expensive cabling.

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Interop: Fixed/Mobile Convergence Coming to Your Company?

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:39 AM ET | Apr 30, 2008

Employees no longer sit in their cubicles all day. Instead, executives move from place to place, visiting customers and clients. Figuring out how to reach these individuals has been a problem: Do you try their office number or their cell?

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Another Low Priced Video Conferencing System Arrives

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 01:56 PM ET | Apr 28, 2008

Many small and medium businesses have been interested in video conferencing but not able to justify purchasing these systems. In addition, picture quality has been an issue with many systems, so vendors are now trying to address those issues.

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Family Feud Underscores Maturing WAN Optimization Market

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:43 AM ET | Apr 24, 2008

Unions between start-ups and their financial backers are often quite tenuous. This week, the partnership between one vendor and a hedge fund with 10% of its stock illustrated that as well changes occurring in the WAN optimization market.

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Wireless LANs Gain Backbone Flexibility

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 09:29 AM ET | Apr 21, 2008

Has your business been bitten by the wireless bug? Would you like to swap out your wired backbone connections for wireless ones? Well, the time has come when such choices are possible.

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What Are Your Employees Doing on the Road?

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 08:56 AM ET | Apr 17, 2008

Trust can be a trait that takes long time to develop but can be quickly broken. If your company trusts its employees to use the Internet judiciously on the road, then it may be time to rethink that position.

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Remote Workers Take their Office Communications on the Road

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 07:24 AM ET | Apr 15, 2008

Chances are that more of your workers are mobile than those of your larger competitors. Consequently, it is important that your employees are able to access company resources in a seamless, easy-to-use manner as they travel.

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New Storage Reporting Features Focus on The Bottom Line

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:44 AM ET | Apr 10, 2008

How much money did this new product save the company? That question arises in just about every management meeting, so it would be helpful if you had an answer to it.

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Locking Down Stolen Laptops About to Become Simpler

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:47 AM ET | Apr 8, 2008

Mobility offers small and medium businesses a way to improve productivity. One downside is the difficulty in protecting sensitive information if a laptop computer is stolen or --more likely-- left behind as executives scurry from place to place.

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Security Market Gets Physical

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 06:53 AM ET | Apr 3, 2008

Historically, enterprise security consisted of putting a deadbolt lock on the front door. Hackersý hijinks shifted companiesý attention to computer system breaches, but recently a sense of dýjý vu has arisen as corporations are again focusing on physical security.

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GroundWork Enhances Enterprise Management Tool

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 07:03 AM ET | Apr 1, 2008

GroundWork became the latest open source supplier to deliver a more powerful system. The GroundWork Monitor manages thousands of devices and is designed to help network operations center staff, systems administrators, and network engineers.

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HP Unveils Products with Muscle for Midsize Businesses

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 06:01 PM ET | Mar 31, 2008

Today, HP announced several products targeted for smaller businesses. Regardless of how these products play with the so called SMB market, the announcement indicates just how serious HP is about competing for midsize business IT dollars.

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Company Size: 250-999 | Hardware & Software

802.11n Price Points Drop, Features Rise

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:14 AM ET | Mar 27, 2008

The inexorable push to higher speed wireless LANs recently took a significant step forward. Wireless access points that support PoE (Power over Ethernet) and cost less than $1,000 are now in the product delivery pipeline.

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Tool Emerges to Automate Companies' Battle Against Identity Theft

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 11:26 AM ET | Mar 25, 2008

The problems associated with identity theft have become so great that the federal government is forcing corporations to put checks in place to prevent it. Now, help has arrived for businesses that have to comply with these new regulations.

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Compliance Tools Filter Down to Small and Medium Sized Businesses

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 09:48 AM ET | Mar 18, 2008

As companies have automated more business processes, the government as well as industry market leaders have mandated that checks be put in place to ensure that those items are processed safely. Consequently, compliance tools have become a hot IT topic.

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Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Security

Whither Iomega?

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 07:36 AM ET | Mar 13, 2008

One problem with carving out a successful market niche is that sometimes you attract unwanted suitors. Iomega, which manufactures portable data storage solutions, now finds itself in such a position, so its future is unclear.

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Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Storage

More Things I Didn't Know About Printing: Solid Ink!?

Posted by Fredric Paul 05:50 PM ET | Mar 11, 2008

Last week I wrote that inkjets are actually cheaper per page than lasers when printing color materials. Now I find that there's actually a third way -- no, I'm not talking about not dot-matrix -- solid ink technology.

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Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 250-999 | Green Business | Hardware & Software

Trend Micro Enters Email Archiving Market

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 10:09 AM ET | Mar 11, 2008

How many email messages were in your In Box this morning? 10? 20? 50? 100? 150? As the number continues to grow, enterprises are finding it more and more difficult to manage them effectively.

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Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 1-49 | Company Size: 250-999 | Company Size: 50-249 | Messaging

Time to Reap What IP Telephony has Sown

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 06:20 AM ET | Mar 4, 2008

IP telephony made its way into the small and medium business mainstream a few years ago, yet only during the past 12 months have companies started to use this communications foundation to improve productivity.

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Siemens Launches OpenScape Unified Communications Server Software

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:29 PM ET | Mar 3, 2008

Siemens hopes to jumpstart acceptance of Unified Communications with a vendor-agnostic open-standards-based OpenScape UC server software platform.

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Company Size: 1,100-1,500 | Company Size: 250-999 | IT | Messaging | Networking & Communications

Nortel's Downward Spiral Continues

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:35 AM ET | Feb 28, 2008

Nortel's fourth quarter revenue brought unwelcome news. In fact, the numbers were so bad that more than 2,000 employees will need to find new employers ASAP, as the vendor continues to struggle in the highly competitive network equipment market.

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Riverbed Eases WAN Transmission Requirements

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:54 AM ET | Feb 26, 2008

Traffic flowing between remote locations can chew up bandwidth and raise a small and medium sized businessýs telecommunications costs. WAN optimization tools have the potential to ease those burdens.

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10G iSCSI Solutions Move Closer to the Mainstream

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 05:26 AM ET | Feb 21, 2008

Because of its IP based design and potential to lower storage costs, iSCSI has been gaining momentum recently. One reason why the technology may be worth a close look is it is now starting to support 10G bps transmission rates.

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RIM Hauls Motorola Into Court

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 06:11 AM ET | Feb 19, 2008

Relations between the US and Canada grew frosty as Montreal, based Research In Motion pulled Schaumberg, Ill Motorola into court. The two sides are warring over wireless patents and payments, a quick resolution seems unlikely, and businesses could suffer.

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IBM Answers Competitorsý Storage Challenge

Posted by Paul Korzeniowski 06:02 AM ET | Feb 14, 2008

The major hardware suppliers, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM, understand the growing importance that storage solutions play in the enterprises. Consequently, they have been trying to outdo one another with a spate of high profile announcements.

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