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Techworld Mid-sized Business is your essential resource for all the latest database news, applications insight, business software reviews, e-mail news, business analysis software news and other IT business news.
News Headlines
- SMBs to be offered online marketplace
Rival bazaar starts trading. - BT expands SaaS drive with Netsuite and SugarCRM
Telecoms giant ups focus on SME market. - Nortel goes open source for unified comms
Offers SMBs a SIP of what the big boys are drinking. - IBM merges midrange server lines
And opens up to all operating systems. - Apple sued over 'inferior' iMac screens
Displays 16,777,216 shades of marketing spin? - Free event-based email system launched
Avoid that pesky spam folder. - Buffalo announces NAS for the masses
Rack to the future. - Microsoft outage still not explained
Windows Messenger goes dark.
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Insight articles
- Mobile devices bring touch into the user equation
As mobile devices evolve and grow more sophisticated, so too do the ways that we interact with them. - Sun's green datacentre strategy - have none
Sun Microsystems intends to become datacentre-less by 2015. Applications will be delivered 'over the grid' in a software-as-a-service model. - Why is being a VoIP company such hard work?
How many smallish companies have this list of woes in twelve months and get away with it? Here’s a rundown of Skype’s year to bury.
How-Tos
- Getting started with networking
Setting up your first business network will seem daunting, but it doesn't have to be as hard as all that. - WiFi's security secret - authentication
Wireless authentication is for big companies. Wrong. It is now within reach of the ordinary user, assuming they are actually listening... - The ten-minute guide to wireless security - part two
Next, secure the clients, but which encryption scheme to use? Stage two - encrypt all traffic using WEP or WPA.
White papers
- 7 Essential Steps of Vulnerability ManagementNew
Every week at least 155 risks from newfound software to operating system vulnerabilities, threaten the security and availability of networks and applications. Now is the time to be prepared.
- Business-savvy CIOs: Joining the senior leadership team.
CIOs are joining the ranks of top management in record numbers. Accordingto results from IBM’s 2007 CIO Leadership Survey, 80 percent of CIOs havebecome valued members of their senior leadership teams.
- The outsourcing decision for a globally integrated enterprise.
Globalisation and advances in technology have changed the way business gets done. Companies entering into outsourcing agreements expect to reduce costs and drive efficiency, but such commodity benefits are just the price of admission for today’s outsourcing agreements.
Briefings
- Why education pays off in e-mail security
Should we rely on the user or technology to safeguard our messaging systems?
Mid-sized business topics pages
Blog: Editor's Notes
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Microsoft's OneCare won't care for you just yet.
Outside the US? Forget it then. -
A finger in the eye for biometrics
Not working as planned.
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Reviews
- Ruckus ZoneFlex
Ruckus promises a small business Wi-Fi LAN that doesn't need an IT specialist, doesn't break the bank, and doesn't compromise on features. Can it really deliver? - Lenovo 3000 V200 laptop
Lenovo has updated its ultra-portable laptops with the flagship 3000 V200. Sporting a 12.1-inch widescreen display and based on Intel’s brand-new ‘Santa Rosa’ mobile platform, the silver-and-black V200 might just be the perfect highly-portable Windows-based system for cash-strapped small businesses. - Alienware MJ-12 8550i workstation
Mention Alienware to most Internet users, and they will think of high-end games machines with every conceivable option on-board and a hefty price tag to suit. They’re less well known for it perhaps, but the company has also been carving out a similar niche in the professional workstation sector. - Zyxel P-2602HWL ADSL2+ VoIP Wi-Fi Gateway
Another vendor leaps in and combines tasks in an "all-you-need" box for SOHO offices. - Intertex Surfinbird IX68 ADSL 2+ VOIP Wi-Fi gate
A gateway with a full SIP server, the IX68 could provide a full IP telephony system for a small company - and deliver it over Wi-Fi as well.
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Interviews
- Are smart switches all the SMB needs?
Mid-size businesses use switches you can manage in a browser. Netgear product line manager Peter Newton expands.
Case Studies
- USB flash drive security risk removed
Barclays Bank deploys SecureWave Sanctuary Device Control to remove USB security risk
WHITE PAPERS
- 7 Essential Steps of Vulnerability Management
Every week at least 155 risks from newfound software to operating system vulnerabilities, threaten the security and availability of networks and applications. Now is the time to be prepared. - A Blueprint for Better Management from the Desktop to the Data Centre
Explore our strategy to build an open management architecture that offers distinct value through sophisticated integration of otherwise isolated components. - Securing your Network from the Inside: Adding a Portable Layer of Protection
Discover how you can pre-empt potential security risks and quickly identify security threats – keeping your network and users safe. - IDC Report: Identity and Security Management and Strong Information Technology Governance
This IDC white paper examines identity and security management solutions and how these integrated offerings can play a key role in enforcing security compliance. - IDC Executive Brief: The Rising Concerns Over Endpoint Security
This IDC Executive Brief examines how an integrated EPS solution with multiple security layers, has been proven to deliver the highest level of protection at the lowest TCO.
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