Today, Office Depot shared some great insights on SMBs and their green business practices. According to the company, a majority of small businesses have adopted eco-friendly practices or are planning to by 2014. Earlier, at Small Business Computing I wrote: Sixty-one percent of small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are actively taking steps to reduce their environmental impact according […]
State of the SMB cloud market
Yesterday, Parallels released its SMB Cloud Insights report. And according to the company’s forecast, the global SMB cloud services market is growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 26 percent and is on track to reach $68 billion by 2014. So, small- and medium-sized businesses are taking to the cloud in increasing numbers, which makes […]
Microsoft: SMBs Fuel Hyper-V Adoption
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Microsoft’s Bob Muglia mentions that even facing VMware’s huge headstart Hyper-V is gaining marketshare. Of course, specifics are lacking, but he did let slip that it’s making substantial gains in the…
Dell's Dithmer to SMBs: Virtualization? Not so fast
Mind you, he has servers to sell, so salt, grains and all that good stuff… Erik Dithmer, general manager of Small Medium Business Americas for Dell is telling SMB’s to hold their horses on virtualization. Gene Marks, author of “Penny…
Dell's Shortcut to Virtualization
Today Dell made of flurry of virtualization related announcements. Among the most intriguing are two, quasi-turnkey virtual infrastructure packages, one for full-fledged datacenters and another for SMBs: Data Center Virtualization Configuration: The unified virtualization platform with pre-configured architectures combines Dell…
