Nathan Eddy

Enhanced business analytics are available to small to medium-size businesses via RedHorse Systems’ upgraded customer relationship management platform, which contains new Dashboard features that give small business owners a picture of how their business is doing. The new graphical view of business information is intuitive, making it easier for small business owners to evaluate their […]

Bank of America and Intuit announced the availability of Intuit Full Service Payroll for Bank of America small business customers, which provides guaranteed error-free paychecks and payroll taxes, as well as a team of experts to address any number of payroll issues. One key feature is the guaranteed 100 percent accuracy of federal, state and […]

AT&T announced that its customers can choose from two tiered data plans on the company’s 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless network starting at $15 per month while noting existing smartphone customers do not have to make changes to their data plan. The DataPlus and DataPro plans include access to AT&T’s national WiFi network of […]

Lenovo is unveiling the ThinkCentre M77 desktop, which is designed for business professionals and offers a host of security and data-access management features. Aimed at professionals in large businesses and public-sector customers, the ThinkCentre M77 desktop, announced Oct. 29, sports an Advanced Micro Devices FX-series processor, along with support for multiple monitors. IT managers can […]

Hitachi Data Systems unveiled its plans for helping customers transform their data and announced cloud services to provide a fully managed, pay-per-use, private cloud environment on a customer’s premises. HDS has aligned its product and solutions portfolio around a three-tiered strategy of infrastructure cloud, content cloud and information cloud that builds on existing IT investments […]

Network operator AT&T announced the launch of its Messaging Toolkit, designed to allow small to medium-size businesses to distribute special offers, product updates and promotions in front of their customers in real time with a do-it-yourself portfolio of mobile marketing solutions that can be accessed from a cloud-based Web portal. The Messaging Toolkit is a […]

The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to comprehensively reform its Universal Service Fund and intercarrier compensation systems. Efforts to expand the high-speed Internet to rural America over the next six years will increase economic growth by $50 billion over that period, the FCC estimates. These reforms will create a new Connect America Fund with an […]

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LSI, which specializes in networking and storage software and semiconductors, is planning to buy SandForce, which makes flash storage processors for enterprise and client flash solutions and solid-state drives. Under the agreement announced Oct. 26, LSI will pay about $322 million, and will assume about $48 million of unvested stock options and restricted shares held […]

Data backup, business continuity and disaster recovery service provider Axcient announced the launch of Cloud Continuity, a service aimed at small to medium-size businesses that enables companies to launch all of their servers in Axcient’s cloud. When local servers fail, users can run a virtual office on Axcient’s cloud platform, enabling employees to continue working […]

Security and storage management specialist Symantec announced security and backup tracks within its SMB Specialization, which is organized to provide partners with the skills and experience to drive greater revenue by tailoring their services and support to small and midsize businesses. In addition, the SMB Specialization now includes the Symantec Technical Support Center, providing partners […]

Virtual computing solutions provider Citrix Systems announced a set of products, solutions and programs designed to help small and midsize businesses move from the PC era to the cloud era by capitalizing on the benefits of desktop virtualization. Central to the company’s SMB initiative is the release of an all-new version of VDI-in-a-Box, the virtual […]