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  • SMB Virtualisation: Taking the virtualisation journey

    By Matthew Sainsbury | 21 April, 2010 18:58

    It’s not new technology, but to SMBs, virtualisation can still be a scary unknown quantity. MATTHEW SAINSBURY investigates ways partners and vendors can allay those fears to the profit of everyone.

  • The cheat sheet for small business networks

    By Paul Venezia | 29 September, 2009 08:57

    It's a great time to set up a small business. The Web gives even the littlest operation enormous reach, while vendors now sell small-business technology that delivers unbelievable bang for the buck.

  • The computer hardware hall of fame

    By Eric Knorr | 17 June, 2009 15:20

    There's a special place reserved for the stalwart hardware that many of us have depended on day after day, year after year. Or at least, we believe there should be a special place.

  • Better sales compensation management

    By James E. Gaskin | 16 January, 2009 09:01

    Figuring a good sales compensation plan is like making oil and water blend smoothly. Sales people always think management is cheating them out of commissions. Management always thinks sales people are stealing them blind. Owners of smaller companies who manage the sales people themselves often focus on the dollar paid in commission rather than thinking of the associated $20 of company revenue.

  • Seven Lessons That SMBs Can Learn from Big IT

    By David Strom | 14 November, 2008 10:26

    Just because you don't have a large enterprise doesn't mean you can't run your IT operation like the big guys. Here are seven ways to help your SMB--a small or medium-size business--implement some of the lessons big IT operations have learned over the years. Using these tips, you should be able to improve productivity, cut costs, and keep your business running smoothly.

Interviews
  • Growth 2012: Beating the downturns

    By Spandas Lui | 06 February, 2012 12:12

    InTechnology: The first of 10 interviews with channel-relevant technology companies that have achieved significant growth over the last three years

  • Kazacos lays down what the NBN will mean for regional Australia

    By Julia Talevski | 18 March, 2010 17:47

    In an interview with IT veteran, Kaz founder and Hostech executive chairman, Peter Kazacos, discusses why businesses need to prepare for the NBN, opportunities in regional Australia and the integration of all the acquired business.

  • Setting a hectic pace

    By Trevor Clarke | 27 October, 2009 16:39

    It’s been a big year for Cisco in more ways than one. Across its global operations, the networking powerhouse was, like many of its peers, hit pretty hard by the economic downturn.

  • Riding through the storm

    By Matthew Sainsbury | 27 October, 2009 16:08

    Ingram Micro was caught in a whirlwind of economic forces this year, and its newly installed Australian vice-president and general manager, Jay Miley, found himself quickly anchored in the middle of it.

  • Playing to your strengths

    By Nadia Cameron | 18 February, 2009 14:55

    Westcon Group is confident its focus on core technologies such as collaboration, security, storage and networking will help it ride out the economic storm. General manager, Wendy O’Keeffe, caught up with ARN to discuss the state of the market and the distributor’s position in 2009.

Opinions
  • Consulting room: Look before you leap

    By Simon Steele | 02 July, 2010 09:00

    It probably won’t surprise you to know that companies in Australia are using social media as a core part of their business strategy in greater numbers every day. This includes Dell, Coca-Cola, V Australia and Toyota to name a just a few high profile organisations.

  • Take advantage of the recession

    By Bart Perkins | 25 March, 2009 16:16

    Virtually every IT organisation is feeling the impact of the global downturn. But there is a silver lining. It provides an opportunity to challenge the status quo, eliminate ineffective systems and services, and make changes that management has previously refused to consider.

  • Solution selling 101

    By Wayne Small | 25 March, 2009 15:41

    I hear people talking about selling solutions all the time. What they normally mean is that they want to bundle together as many products as possible to increase the sale to the customer. That to me is NOT a solution sale. It’s a drive for revenue and ultimately not something that is good business.

  • Local Insight: How do you go to market in tough times?

    By Simon Steele | 11 February, 2009 14:41

    Australia may have been doomed to follow the world into recessions past, but some dire predictions notwithstanding, there’s a real sense of optimism on this occasion that we can ride the storm and come out stronger than many nations.

  • Gershon – it’s a matter of political will

    By John Grant | 03 December, 2008 14:30

    Since my first column on Gershon (ARN, July 23), Sir Peter has departed our fair shores and left a series of challenging and optimistic recommendations in a report laid down (presumably) with some gusto on Minister Lindsay Tanner’s table. Last week, Tanner stated the recommendations would be adopted completely in full.

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