IT Toolbox

JUNE 20, 2017

A Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) platform can serve as the backbone for a small to medium-sized business (SMB). As such, it’s important for your SMB to have a cloud UC migration strategy that taxes neither your IT department (if one exists) or just plain inconveniences your business.

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Eric D. Brown

MAY 19, 2014

Additionally, those large organizations are well ahead of their small and medium business (SMB) counterparts. There are a number of reasons for the lag between large organizations and SMB. In the world of the SMB, the ability to bring in new people just isn’t there. To me, this levels the playing field a bit for the SMB.

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Eric D. Brown

MAY 29, 2014

I just finished reading a report from SMB Group titled “ Vendor Strategies to Bring Game-Changing Technology Trends to SMBs ”. The report describes research performed by SMB Group into how small and medium businesses (SMB) are viewing and using technology in their business.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

DECEMBER 12, 2022

I learned two truths this week. During the Coffee with Digital Trailblazers, a LinkedIn audio event that I host most Fridays at 11 am ET, Jay Cohen shared that January was a good time of the year to focus on learning programs and driving department and team-level realignments.

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Cloud Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

In a recent post, titled “ 10 Surprising Facts About Cloud Computing and What It Really Is ”, Zac Johnson highlighted some interesting facts about cloud computing in the SMB marketplace: Cloud Computing is up to 40 times more cost-effective for an SMB, compared to running its own IT system.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JANUARY 18, 2021

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JULY 3, 2023

Some context: I rarely blog about information security because it’s outside my core expertise in digital transformation. It’s hard to drive transformation and also have a risk and security mindset, and it’s extraordinarily time-consuming to keep up with the latest security threats.

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IT Toolbox

AUGUST 17, 2022

Analysys Mason predicts that SMB IT spending is set to grow 6.3% The post SMB’s IT Spending to Grow by 6.3%, Touch $1.46T In 2023 appeared first on Spiceworks. year-over-year in 2023, a rate equivalent to pre-pandemic levels.

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SMB Analysis 246

Association of Information Technology Professional

AUGUST 13, 2020

After three decades inspiration and perspiration serving SMB tech companies, Bob Stegner is the latest inductee into the IT Hall of Fame, an honor bestowed at ChannelCon Online.

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Tech Republic Security

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Cybersecurity training is not the same across all companies; SMB training programs must be tailored according to size and security awareness. Here are an expert's cybersecurity training tips.

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Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 15, 2023

It doesn’t matter whether you are a large business enterprise, SMB, government or nonprofit, the collection, management, protection and analysis of data is a determining factor in your overall success. In many ways, data has become the primary currency of modern organizations.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Here we are, nearly midway through the 16th annual National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), and while the good news is many large enterprises are more locked down than they were five or six years ago, it’s clear SMBs need some help.

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Tech Republic Cloud

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Microsoft is simplifying how you'll connect to Windows file servers over the internet. It's time to say goodbye to the VPN.

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Association of Information Technology Professional

OCTOBER 5, 2021

When it comes to defending the SMB market, just making sure that your doors are locked can go a long way for managed service providers to prevent most successful cyberattacks.

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IT Toolbox

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Selecting the right CRM system for a small or medium size business is essentially an exercise in reduction. You need to decide which features are important to you and limit yourself accordingly. The modern CRM landscape is crowded with CRM systems with various prices and capabilities.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

MAY 24, 2022

I want to talk to you today about clouds. But I'm not here to talk about hyper-scale, public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, or Google Cloud. They're great, but for many, they're overkill.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The 2023 ITRC Business Impact Report shows 73% of SMBs experienced a cyberattack, data breach, or both in the past 12 months. Yet, despite the rising threats, 85% of SMB leaders surveyed said they felt prepared to protect against or recover from cyberattacks.

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Association of Information Technology Professional

JULY 15, 2021

It’s important for tech companies of all sizes to remember were all small businesses at some point, says Bob Stegner, host of CompTIA’s Universal Truths from the Son of an SMB YouTube series. Watch the latest episodes to learn how to best service small-business customers and ensure your own long-term success.

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Computer Weekly

AUGUST 15, 2017

Four key exploits at the heart of hacking tools leaked by the Shadow Brokers have given malware authors a lot of power, say security researchers

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Malware SMB Security Research 169

CTOvision

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Amid all of this, SMB owners and IT leaders are busy running their businesses, and don’t often have time to stay on top of the key technologies and IT trends affecting the SMB market. We’ve assembled this list of the 30 Must-Read SMB IT blogs to provide a cross-section of the most influential thought leaders in SMB technology.

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Association of Information Technology Professional

JANUARY 28, 2021

Check out the highlights from the first three episodes of his new YouTube series for CompTIA’s, “Universal Truths from the Son of an SMB.” As the son of a small-business owner and a 30-year-veteran in the IT industry, Bob Stegner has learned how to be—and stay—successful.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Microsoft will likely wait until February 14 to fix a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the SMB network file sharing protocol that can be exploited to crash Windows computers. The vulnerability was disclosed Thursday when the security researcher who found it posted a proof-of-concept exploit for it on GitHub.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 17, 2022

The tribute was recently uploaded to YouTube by GTAce and is meant to highlight how far SMB speedrunning has come over the years. The first video comes courtesy of runner Casion, who laid down a time of 9:51 way back on April 6, 1999.

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SMB Video 104

Storage IO Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Blog post: Small Medium Business (SMB) IT continues to gain respect, what about SOHO? A […].

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Data Center Knowledge

MAY 20, 2014

IaaS and hosting startup sees opportunity for growth with technologically sophisticated SMBs Read More. Cloud Computing Featured Hosting Investing'

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Computerworld Vertical IT

APRIL 26, 2023

The site reflects its changing status in the sector; not only is it experiencing a big uptick in terms of its share in enterprise tech, but it is also rapidly emerging across the small and mid-size business (SMB) sector. To read this article in full, please click here

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Forrester IT

MAY 12, 2017

Early analysis indicates the malware spreads via SMB protocol, possibly using a vulnerability published by Microsoft on March 14 th , per CCN CERT National Cryptologic Center. This same exploit mechanism appeared to be in use by ETERNAL BLUE, included as part of the Shadow Brokers dump.

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Tech Republic Cloud

JULY 7, 2020

Interviews with nine companies examined the impact on revenue as well as how long it took to recoup the investment in the cloud platform.

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Cloud SMB Study Google 125

IT Toolbox

AUGUST 28, 2017

Cloud-based customer relationship management just got simpler – and yet at the same time more sophisticated – with the introduction of a palette of new features from Really Simple Systems.

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Tech Republic Data Center

JANUARY 31, 2022

Fortinet ranked #1 in the Enterprise Data Center, Distributed Enterprise, and SMB use cases as of 30 November 2021 The January 2022 Gartner® Critical Capabilities report for Network Firewalls includes network firewall evaluations for various use cases.

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Firewall Network SMB Data Center 72

Association of Information Technology Professional

AUGUST 7, 2019

SMB Customers know more—and demand more—than ever, which means solution providers need to have a greater understand of their customers’ experiences in order to be successful, said CompTIA’s Carolyn April, at ChannelCon in Las Vegas.

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Tech Republic Cloud

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The collection of new ready-to-use AI services for Oracle Cloud infrastructure are available now for applications like speech, vision, analytics and more.

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IT Toolbox

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

SMBs have yet to migrate to VoIP communications – an opportunity driving strategy for Digerati Technologies, the Texas-based cloud communications specialist identified by Deloitte as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America. According to estimates, some 75% of U.S.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

AUGUST 2, 2022

We're in a time of transition: as the most recent annual Flexera State of the Cloud Report showed, 53% of small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) — those with 1,000 or fewer employees — spend more than $1.2 Flexera predicts that within the next year, 63% of SMB workloads and 62% of SMB data will reside in a public cloud.

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IT Toolbox

MAY 2, 2017

Cloud computing has provided major benefits to businesses of all shapes and sizes, with SMBs proving to get the most out of this revolutionary technology.

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IT Toolbox

JULY 24, 2017

I just had lunch with a long-time business colleague who specializes in IT consulting and network systems integration for small and medium-sized businesses. From servers to PBXs and everything in between, his company sells, installs, and manages entire network environments for its customers.

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Vendor Management Firewall Backup SMB 131

IT Toolbox

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In the SMB market the choices are split about equally and both offer mixes of features suitable for running a small or medium business. One important decision to make in choosing a CRM system is whether you want it to be hosted locally or in the cloud. Both approaches have their good and bad points and today both offer a lot of choices.

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