Author: Sanjeev Aggarwal

YuuGuu Web Conferencing(1-27-10)

1-27-10: YuuGuu – Web Conferencing Solution Highlights: Our first briefing with Yuuguu, a venture capital backed, private company in the U.K. Yuugguu is the Japanese word for fusion—and Yuuguu’s solution helps people fuse together a fragmented collaboration and communication environment. The solution includes instant messaging, screen sharing, and conference calling, among other th...

Standing Out in a Sea of Green IT: IBM’s Scalable Modular Data Centers for Midsize Companies

As a follow up to my post What Is Green IT and Why Should You Care?, I had the opportunity to talk with Steve Sams, VP for IBM’s Global Site and Facilities Services, along with several other members of IBM’s green team. As part of its

Network Solutions (1-26-10)

1-26-10: Network Solutions – Web Hosting and Marketing Highlights: For Network Solutions, the world’s first Internet registrar, small business is big business. About 46% of its customers come from the 1 to 9 employee size band. Network solutions offers services geared to the different stages small businesses go through, from getting a business online to helping to grow and manage th...

Intuit and Microsoft – two SMB market leaders partnering on cloud platform strategies to deliver web applications

This agreement provides an end-to-end applications development environment and marketing/sales channels for application developers to develop and market application solutions to small businesses. Key elements of the agreement include: Broadening the applications developer community to develop SMB focused applications - Intuit to provide a S...

SMB Collaboration Battle Heats Up: VMware Announces Deal to Acquire Zimbra

As we predicted just a couple of weeks ago in our 2010 Top 10 SMB Technology Predictions, the collaboration battle is heating up! VMware just announced that has entered into a definitive agreement with Yahoo! to acquire

What Is Green IT, and Why Should You Care?

(Originally published in Small Business Computing, December 29, 2009) Technology insiders tend to throw around technical terms and business jargon, assuming people outside the industry understand what it all means. By its nature, technology vocabu...

2010 Top 10 SMB Technology Market Predictions

Fellow SMB analyst Sanjeev Aggarwal and I have teamed up to bring you our top ten technology related predictions-plus three bonus predictions--for the SMB (companies with 1-1000 employees) market for 2010. Details for each prediction follow the list below. Remember to vote for your top prediction