The practice of working from home has skyrocketed in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, as companies told their employees to stay home to comply with the widespread quarantine and social-distancing requirements. Small and medium businesses (SMBs) have had to coordinate a sudden and massive migration to work from home (WFH) for almost all of their employees, using collaboration tools in ways that ...
Category: IT Infrastructure And Security
How is Your Business Navigating to the Next Normal? Take this New SMB Group Survey
In the past three months, COVID-19 has disrupted any notion of business as usual. SMB Group felt that it was critical to provide immediate data to understand its impact on small and medium businesses (SMBs), and the steps they took at the outset to weather the storm.
What Does an SMB Work-from-Home Laptop Look Like?
The practice of working from home has skyrocketed in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, as companies told their employees to stay home to comply with the widespread quarantine and social-distancing requirements. Small and medium businesses (SMBs) have had to coordinate a sudden and massive migration to work from home (WFH) for almost all of their employees, using collaboration tools in ways that ...
Cisco OnPlus: IT Infrastructure Advisory and Management Services Solution For Small Businesses
--by Sanjeev Aggarwal and Laurie McCabe, SMB Group Last month, Cisco introduced a new IT Infrastructure advisory and management service solution designed for VARs to provide to small businesses with less than 100 employees. Delivered via Cisco’s value-added reseller (VAR) channel, Cisco OnPlus enables VARs to offload the mundane, time-consuming tasks of managing a network environmen...
Dell’s New Vostro 3000 Laptops: Designed for Small Businesses
The realities of a lingering recession and a do-it-yourself (DIY) ethos continue to frame today's economic climate. As entrepreneurs and small businesses went into financial shock beginning in mid-2008, they hunkered down and made do with older laptops (the dominant computing platform for these businesses) and other hardware instead of spending precious cash on new equipment. But with hints of ...