Articles on Small Business

There’s been much discussion of the concept of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) over the last few years. While the topic has been written about by many

Last week, I read with interest the announcement that IBM was opening up their Watson computing platform to outside organizations and developers to use to

The cloud is quite hyped these days - and rightfully so. The cloud brings quite a bit of productivity and cost savings to organizations as well as a

I ran across IBM's "How NOT to run a midsize business..." site and immediately spent some time sifting through the site. You've most likely seen the cards

Managed Services Providers (MSP's) have been around the IT space for years. Most small and medium organizations have experience have experience working

How well does small business and IT work? Can you run a small business today without an IT staff? Yes...you can.

Big Data.  Two small words with huge meaning. Do a search for "big data" on Google and you'll find over 23 million results. Do a book search on amazon for

Do small businesses have the tools and skills to take advantage of big data, or will it drive innovation for large companies and leave them behind?

The events in Japan over the last week are heartbreaking....but there's lessons to learn from these events. Elliot Ross has a great post titled Disaster

Rackspace has just announced their open source cloud platform, OpenStack in collaboration with NASA. While the open source world has been a viable area

I've been thinking about approaches to small business technology initiatives and whether it makes sense for small business to outsource a good portion of