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The Planet rolls out new hosting support services

Server hosting provider The Planet is introducing new services that it hopes will appeal to customers who might need varying amounts of support depending on their hosted projects.

| News | Small business | 07/08/08 at 2:31 pm |

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Outsourcing infrastructure applications for SMBs

The promise of rapid time-to-market combined with lower total cost of ownership continues to drive the adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) among small and mid-sized businesses. This on-demand or hosted application model delivers significant benefits through quick adoption, reduced IT costs and increased budget flexibility. Better yet, outsourcing allows staff to focus on business-related initiatives rather than spending valuable energy selecting, implementing, and maintaining complex on-site solutions.

| Opinion | SaaS | Small business | 07/08/08 at 9:36 am |

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Mass Duplicating USB Drives

Cool new things catch my eye, which is what happened right before I threw away the latest paper catalog from Discmakers, the CD and DVD duplication product source. They now have USB media duplicators.

| How-to | Small business | 07/07/08 at 4:04 pm |

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New Phones Driving Network Upgrades

Does the road to small business technology sales now go through a phone system upgrade? I've talked to several companies selling products, and resellers leveraging Voice over Internet Protocol system sales into general networking sales and management services lately. All point the same way direction: the way to a small business owner's heart, or at least checkbook, is through a phone system upgrade.

| Best practice | Small business | Unified communications | 07/03/08 at 11:51 am |

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