SMB news from Network World

Intel takes on embedded market with Atom chip

Agam Shah — 2008-07-24T00:00:00Z

Taking a jab at the embedded market, Intel on Wednesday said it was working on new x86 chips to use in devices ranging from consumer electronics to mobile phones.

Plugging iPhones into small businesses

James E. Gaskin — 2008-07-24T00:00:00Z

Apple's iPhone drew criticism when first released because of tepid enterprise business support. Small businesses felt the pain of iPhone envy more sharply than their enterprise counterparts because of the high upfront cost of the first iPhone and the back-end support requirements for high-end e-mail and communication servers.

Cisco to buy home-network software vendor

2008-07-23T00:00:00Z

Cisco announced plans to buy Pure Networks, a Seattle company that has developed software aimed at making home networking easier, for US$120 million.

iPhone and iPod case roundup

2008-07-22T00:00:00Z

Speck on Tuesday announced their PixelSkin cases for the iPhone 3G. iSkin has announced its new DuoBand for the iPod nano, and Ivyskin is offering its iPhone 3G XyloT3 case.

Blu-ray Disc rapidly gaining popularity in Japan

Martyn Williams — 2008-07-22T00:00:00Z

Shipments of Blu-ray Disc-based video recorders and players are increasing fast in Japan as the market rallies around the format after the end of its battle with the defeated HD DVD format.

Automation of branch management picking up steam

Robin Gareiss — 2008-07-22T00:00:00Z

As IT staffs discuss how to handle growing IT requirements often with flat IT budgets, one topic that always emerges is more efficient ways to manage the infrastructure.

Windows Home Server update fixes data-corruption issue

2008-07-21T00:00:00Z

Microsoft has released an update to Windows Home Server that fixes a data-corruption problem some users were having with the software.

Bidding for iPhone 3G tops $1,000 on eBay

Agam Shah — 2008-07-21T00:00:00Z

Pent-up demand for the iPhone 3G is manifesting itself on auction site eBay, where eager buyers are bidding in excess of US$1,000 to get what's turning out to be a hot commodity.

SBS 2008: Same old bundle with new Vista wrapper

James E. Gaskin — 2008-07-21T00:00:00Z

With network-attached storage devices selling for just a few hundred bucks per terabyte, and online service providers offering e-mail and full productivity applications for a few dollars per user per month, Microsoft's Small Business Server 2008 is entering into a tougher market than its older siblings have had to endure.

How we tested Microsoft SBS 2008

James E. Gaskin — 2008-07-21T00:00:00Z

Microsoft provided SBS 2008 Standard per-installed on a Dell PowerEdge T605 server with a 2.0 GHz Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, 8GB RAM, and 1TB of disk storage using RAID-5 for file protection. We installed client software via the network connection and by copying installation files to a USB drive. Firefox worked as well as Internet Explorer on all server tests after initial client browser-based download and installation.

Is your data center ready for tomorrow's applications?

2004-04-12T00:00:00Z

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