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Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMB) now have another cloud option – and it’s open source. Evonence has launched a software-as-a-service solution built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides users with popular open source products as pre-configured, pre-deployed ready-to-use-solutions.
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In last week’s State of the Union Address, United States President Barack Obama laid out his plan for America’s future. In it, he declared, “we will do big things.
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While a significant set of analytics tools is just about mandatory for large enterprises at this point, smaller businesses are heading that way too. To help them on their way, IBM (news, site ) has just released an ‘express’ version of their analytics product, Cognos, which it targeted
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This week, we look at research from IBM that indicates SMBs will be spending on their cloud and business analytics this year, EMC adds fuel to the data storage market, Intermedia offers SMBs encrypted email while MediaFeedia is looking for some SMB attention with a new social media management tool
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Mediafeedia hopes to lure SMBs with the release of their new social media management tool designed exclusively for Facebook. The free offering enables businesses to manage and publish content on their Facebook pages from one central Web-based location-- no downloading necessary.
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This week Zoho and Sage launch new online packages for the SMB market, Microsoft’s online CRM release is priced to suit SMBs, while US SMB’s are not backing up their data. In other new, tablet sales -- particularly iPad -- are booming.
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New research commissioned by IBM (news, site) suggests that most mid-sized companies have put the recession behind them and will be focusing on the deployment of new technologies, particularly analytics, over the next 12 months. These companies will also be looking for collaboration software, mobile content
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In the SMB space this week Bamboo offers SaaS CRM for SharePoint, Google continues to target SMB ad revenue with Places for iPhone, SMBs are taking to the cloud quicker than anyone thought while research from Symantec shows that they are not implementing Disaster Recovery plans.
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There has been some interesting research into the SMB market and how it is likely to fare over the next year. Two things stand out: SMBs are still confused about cloud computing and spending on mobile devices is booming.
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Everyone who carefully monitors the mass media landscape in regard to cloud computing may observe a certain contradiction among industry analysts and opinion leaders. In some cases, different research teams within the same organization contradict each other. In the U.S., optimistic scenarios forecasting a very-soon-to-happen mass conversion to SaaS-based business
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Ending the year in the SMB space -- Aspect and Microsoft Lync join together to provide communication center capabilities for SMBs, SAP continues its move into the SMB market, Websense warns of threats for 2011 and Alfresco Community Edition goes multi-lingual.
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Motive Systems (news, site ) has extended the reach of its on-premise and cloud-based document management system through an integration with Salesfoce that can run in parallel to a CRM deployment.
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Winding down the year, this week we have predictions for 2011 from the SMB Group that prominently feature mobile and social computing, Zoho upgrades its CRM is offering again, MS’s Small Business Server goes to RTM and AVG shows companies how to protect themselves.
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Virtualization has found its place in the enterprise and it will stay there. For virtualization, 2011 won't be a year of dramatic changes but still there will be interesting things to observe. Here's a look at what we see happening in virtualization in 2011. 1.
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