Highlights:

• Open source and Web site design — Caveat emptor
• Open source security — Five best practices
• Linux desktop — Simpler, more secure than Windows
• Lack of IT expertise could stall small business growth
• Big vendors duke it out over storage for SMBs

 

 SMB Weekly Roundup for September 12, 2007: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Highlights:

• CIOs: Technical support teams woefully understaffed
• SMBs demand attention from business apps vendors — and get it
• Unified communications offers security, ROI and effectiveness
• Web 2.0 — Are you clued in? 
• Web 2.0 strategies for SMBs: IT Management Guide
• Web 2.0: Another tech bubble about to burst?

 

 SMB Weekly Roundup for September 5, 2007: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Highlights:

• SaaS apps being deployed by business units, not IT
• Risky “Road Warriors”
• Framework just part of security plan
• Unified communications tops the agenda
• Using NAS to addrss capacity demand
• 10 tips for securing your email

 

 SMB Weekly Roundup for August 29, 2007: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

• Princeton Review educates itself in BPM 

• SaaS options demand discipline from SMBs 

• Where is the brain drain? 

• First Windows takes down Skype, then eBay’s rep

 

 SMB Weekly Roundup for Aug. 22, 2007: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

• Open source security OK, experts assure SMBs

• Web 2.0 integration poses challenges and rewards

• Intrusion detection: More than a firewall

• Where is the brain drain?

 

 SMB Weekly Roundup for Aug. 15, 2007: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Highlights: 

• Disaster recovery outsourcing: Simple and cheap
• Encryption planning goes far at SMBs
• Antivirus Fight Club
• IM malware creeping upward
• Compliance: IT Management Guide

 

 SMB Weekly Roundup for August 8, 2007: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The SMB Weekly Roundup is on vacation this week. It will return refreshed and tanned August 8, 2007.

Highlights include: 

• SMBs unprepared for IM revolution
• MDM not one-size-fits-all 
• Data deduplication technology of growing interest to SMBs 
• Compliance strategies for SMBs
• Using NAS to address capacity demand

 

 SMB Weekly Roundup for July 25, 2007: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Highlights: 

• With project portfolio management, city CIO saves big bucks 
• Blog: I draw the line at Candy Making 2.0
• User response to Dell pledges SMB support with launch of new PCs
• CRM — Ten questions to consider before buying

 

 SMB Weekly Roundup for July 18, 2007: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Highlights include: 

• PCI Data Security Standard compliance: Three steps to success

• Compliance, security take managing log data to next level

• E-discovery must be a team effort

• Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for SMBs: How much do you know?

• NetSuite IPO has SMBs optimistic

• Dell pledges SMB support with launch of new PCs

 

 SMB Weekly Roundup for July 11, 2007: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download