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Tweet Convenience or Chaos?  Is there a game plan in the near future? Bring Your Own Device or BYOD is a policy that allows employees to bring their personal mobile computing devices to work places and connect them on the corporate network. Some of the many benefits of a BYOD program include: keeping employees happy as [...]

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Tweet Get connected, get secure – should become the new mantra for small and medium businesses (SMBs)  New age technologies like mobile devices and cloud-based technologies have totally changed our lives and provided it with new impetus as well as a new degree of freedom. We use tablets, smartphones, or other mobile devices to access [...]

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Tweet In a connected world, securing enterprise systems is a top priority. A fundamental concern for organizations worldwide is to protect their mission-critical applications, sensitive electronic data, and underlying computing infrastructure. It is a challenging and never-ending task—a space where IT (information technology) and security personnel will always have their hands full. Therefore, it is [...]

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Tweet It  has been  a successful year in 2012 for the SMB-focused Cloud Partner (“MSP”) ecosystem with average cloud service revenues increasing by a healthy 12% according to our latest Cloud Partner Review based on a sample of over 250 UK MSPs conducted in the last 2 months.  We have simultaneously surveyed similar numbers in [...]

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Tweet Since its founding, Ericsson has always concentrated on the carrier’s business. Although, Ericsson does not have an SMB (small and medium business) market focus, the Analyst Forum in Beijing earlier this month provided me a good view into their business focus and the impact it has brought to the telecommunication industry through mobility and [...]

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Tweet The remotely managed services space is one that has seen rapid growth and demand among small and medium business (SMB) customers. AMI data predicts the total SMB market for remotely managed services will swell to nearly $15B by 2017. This represents a 10% year over year growth from today. To take advantage of this [...]

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Tweet We’ve all seen the action movies where a competent thief is out to steal an expensive artifact, money, or important information. They must navigate and hack hi-tech security systems, computers, secure doors, alarms, cameras, or even complex webs of lasers. Although, scaling walls and jumping over lasers is typically reserved for the movies, businesses [...]

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Tweet I, and several co-workers, took a hop, skip and a cab ride over to the Cloud Computing Expo 2011 in New York City last week.  The speaker for the general session on “War in the Clouds: Are you Ready?” was quite grim (IMHO), but posed a very provocative question, “How expensive is your data [...]

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SMBs are increasingly feeling the importance of managed printing services.

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Managed printing growth is spearheaded by cost cutting actions, says AMI study.

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