Small businesses can profit on Web 2.0

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Web 2.0 is hot and fast catching up. Hardly any serious small and medium businesses (SMBs) today can think of scaling up its operations without making an effective presence online. Web designs based around Web 2.0 has revolutionized the whole way of sharing information and using the Internet as an exciting and more interactive experience. [...]

VoIP in the USA: $6.5 billions just from SMBs

Friday, July 25th, 2008

The need for high-quality, high-performance network connectivity will drive U.S.-based small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to spend heavily on IP VPN managed services over the next five years, with annual revenues rising from less than $2 billion last year to more than $6.5 billion in 2012, according to the latest report from Light Reading Insider [...]

McAfee: small companies deny security issues

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

McAfee announced the release of startling research that reveals the true cost of cyber attacks on small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). A key misconception revealed by the survey is that many SMBs feel they are too small to be targets for cybercriminals. After sampling 500 IT decision-makers from companies with 1,000 - 2,000 employees, [...]

IDC praises Linux

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

A new IDC report predicts that over the long term and certainly in next-generation devices, Linux will be a player and it won’t have to capture market share from incumbents to be successful. “The Linux market continues to behave like a relatively young, highly dynamic industry and continues to reinvent itself as customer adoption activities [...]

Server sellers get modest growth in Q4 2007

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew 2.4% year over year to $15.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007 (4Q07), marking the seventh consecutive quarter of positive growth. Worldwide server unit shipments grew 9.0% in 4Q07 when compared with the year-ago period. For the full year 2007, worldwide server revenue grew 3.6% to [...]