Small And Medium Business
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Dell unfazed by Acer's 'elasticity play'
News Hardware maker's Asia-Pacific exec shrugs off threat from Acer as "elasticity play"; says rival's play for cost-conscious buyers by lowering prices may not last.
Tags: Personal Computers, Servers, Sales/revenue, Earning reports/forecasts, Hardware, Acer Inc., Asia, PC Company, Asia-Pacific, Small And Medium Business
Cloud floats among India's large firms
News Large enterprises in India are opting for cloud computing, choosing hybrid and private clouds to resolve concerns over data security and regulatory compliance.
Tags: Cloud computing, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Data security, Cloud, Security, India, Regulatory Compliance, Small And Medium Business, TCO, Cloud computing
SaaS ERP market poised for strong growth
News Market for software-as-a-service-based enterprise resource planning in Asia-Pacific excluding Japan is expected to reach US$193 million by 2012, says Springboard.
Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Software, India, Survey, Asia-Pacific, Small And Medium Business, product lifecycle management, product lifecycle, ERP
Dell regroups around four customer segments
News Two executives, Mike Cannon and Mark Jarvis, are departing as the computer maker regroups globally around four types of customers.
Tags: SMB, Global strategic management, Government, IT outsourcing, Motorola Inc., Chief Information Officer, Small And Medium Business, chief marketing officer, computer company, CEO
More Asian firms IM to communicate
News Instant messaging emerging as popular collaboration and communication tool among enterprises in Asia-Pacific region, Springboard research finds.
Tags: Instant messaging, Communications, instant messaging tool, Tencent, Instant messaging, Communications, messaging, China, small and medium business, IM
APAC SaaS spend to hit $2.3B by 2012
News Asia-Pacific businesses choose software-as-a-service after evaluating on-premise apps, indicating SaaS software has "begun to eat into on-premise" market, says new study.
Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cost control, Software-as-a-service, Cost control, Software, cloud computing, China, small and medium business, India
India SMB manufacturers to spend $3.7B on IT
News Country's small and midsize manufacturing businesses will spend mostly on computing products in 2009, says AMI-Partners.
Tags: SMB, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud computing, IT infrastructure, on-demand, SMB, Cloud computing, small business, manufacturing company, small and medium business
Dell boosts enterprise virtualization portfolio
News It unveils pre-configured packages for deploying and managing virtualized infrastructures, new storage products and a consulting service called ProConsult.
Tags: Virtualization, Storage, Hardware, NAS, Dell Computer Corp., server, network, small and medium business, consulting service, consulting
Right time for China to use open source as alternative
Blogs Sun Microsystems' chairman and co-founder Scott McNealy, told the BBC he had been asked by the new U.S. administration t...
D-Link DNS-343
Reviews For sharing media files and other documents on a home network, the DNS-343 would be fine. For business use, the awkward permissions system makes management more difficult than it needs to be.
Tags: Unit, Apple iTunes, File System, Storage, Small And Medium Business, Permission, Server, Web interface, Web, D-Link Systems
A tricky part of convergence
Blogs A few weeks ago, I attended a press briefing where a local fast-food company revealed it had signed a contract to use th...
How SMBs can recover from a virus attack
Insight Understanding how viruses operate and the ways to prevent them from spreading is vital knowledge every business, small and big, must have.
Tags: Data security, Network security, Security applications/tools, Security implementation/standards, Security Management, Security, Small And Medium Business, Computer, Virus Attack, social networking
Worker mobility impacts SMB data protection
Insight To maintain security, small and midsize firms must adopt strategy that combines people, processes and technology focused on preventing data leakage.
Tags: Data security, Authentication and encryption, Security Management, Security, Mobile, Mobile Device, Small And Medium Business, intellectual property, sensitive information, social networking
Show up the money, really
Blogs Governments worldwide have been stepping in and scurrying to help their local business community ride out this current e...
Can innovation come in SMB packages?
Blogs I'm in Kuala Lumpur for a couple of days this week, serving as moderator for a panel discussion at the APEC SME Technolo...
