Businesses might long for the relatively simple policies for corporate-owned mobile devices of the BlackBerry age, but today's realities are forcing them to prepare their networks for a continued onslaught of authorized and unauthorized access from a slew of consumer devices, led by iPhones and iPads.

Kerio Technologies, a unified communications, collaboration and security solutions provider for SMBs, has updated its hybrid voice-PBX phone system with the release of Kerio Operator 1.2.

Companies are on the path to cloud adoption. According to a recent report, 28% of U.S. organizations are using cloud computing today, with 73% reporting their first step was implementation of a single cloud application. Yet while 84% of organizations say they have employed at least one cloud application, most do not yet self-identify as "cloud users" who are "implementing or maintaining cloud computing."

N-able Technologies delivers 40 per cent sales growth increase in A/NZ for 2011

2012 Telstra Australian Business Awards entries open on February 6

No company wants to be the subject of the next headline about a cybersecurity attack or critical data loss. Losing business data or customer information takes a toll on your business' reputation and its pocketbook. While it is impossible to entirely avoid an attack, there are steps you can take to mitigate the effects.

It takes less than five minutes to start a Facebook or Twitter account but businesses need a strategy before jumping head-first into the social media jungle.

Do small to midsize businesses (SMB) think they're somehow immune to security threats?

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.

Lexmark international vice-president and general manager of worldwide SMB and printing solutions, Kevin Goffi net, caught up with MATTHEW SAINSBURY to discuss where the SMB printer market is at, what the pain points are for channel partners working in this space, and where the opportunities lie.

SMBs are smaller than enterprises, but are storage requirements that much different? MATTHEW SAINSBURY reports.

With Windows 7, Microsoft (MSFT) aims to please both consumers and businesses large and small.

With cloud computing growing in popularity, SMBs are questioning whether it is more practical to co-locate their data centers or completely bypass that option and head into the cloud? First, let's briefly clarify the two:

There are few people in the IT industry that would gloat about servicing a company of less than 50 people to their global peers. There are even fewer that would do it for a 10-seat operation. But in reality, the SMB market is the backbone of the Australian economy and deserves its time in the spotlight.