Category: IT Infrastructure And Security

Dell’s New APEX Managed Device Service: A Game Changer for SMBs

Dell’s New APEX Managed Device Service: A Game Changer for SMBs

Finding, hiring, and retaining quality IT people is a struggle for many small and medium businesses (SMBs) with 1 to 499 employees. The situation is most severe at the low end. In businesses with fewer than 20 employees, 47% say that they have no formal IT support, and 22% report that non-IT staff look after […]
SMB Business and Technology Challenges and Priorities for 2023: New eBook from SMB Group

SMB Business and Technology Challenges and Priorities for 2023: New eBook from SMB Group

2022 was a turbulent year for SMBs—and this turbulence is continuing into 2023. Even as many challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic recede, others, including inflation and recession, have become top SMB concerns. Amidst this ongoing uncertainty, SMB Group examines U.S. SMBs’ challenges and priorities for 2023 in our SMB Business and Technology Priorities for […]

Dell Client Device Announcements: Marrying Innovation With Sustainability

We all want and need new technology to power our businesses, help employees work more productively, and bring more convenience and flexibility to our lives. But more of us are increasingly troubled by the impact our appetite for te...

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The Role of Technology in SMB Recovery: New SMB Group Infographic

Most SMBs that have been able to weather the COVID-19 crisis to date have already made significant adjustments to adapt their businesses to the new normal. SMB Group’s study, SMBs: Navigating a Path Forward: How Will SMB...

Mobilizing Technology for Effective Remote Working Environments

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 ...

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 ...

Dell Technologies Rolls Out Financial Assistance for Partners and Customers

Adequate cash flow is always crucial to business sustainability—and even more important in the face of COVID-19 and the havoc it is wreaking on businesses and individuals. Dell Technologies recently announced $9 billion in special financing to help its partners to weather this storm. Many of Dell’s partners are small and medium businesses (SMBs) themselves—and many more provide sales and sup...

Zeguro Cyber Safety: A Holistic Solution to Tackle SMB Security Requirements

Small and medium businesses consistently rate security as one of their most pressing technology challenges. But most resource-constrained SMBs are overwhelmed by the seemingly endless variety of cyber threats–and by the confusing array security solutions that promise protection. With that in mind, I was excited to talk to Sidd Gavirneni, who is Cofounder & CEO at Zeguro, an end-to-end cy...