How to Choose a Mobile Carrier for Your Small Business

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	How to Choose a Mobile Carrier for Your Small Business Although you may have only a handful of major wireless providers to choose from, each offers an array of plans, services, devices, and pricing. Voice, messaging, and data aren't the only options now that you have mobile Internet for laptops, tablets, and even mobile Wi-Fi hotspots. Read More WHITE PAPER: VCE/VMware Keep Up with VDI Key Trends The virtual client computing (VCC) market has grown rapidly, despite the economic downturn over the past few years. The centralized virtual desktop (CVD, aka virtual desktop infrastructure or VDI) segment has led the way in facilitating this growth. IDC expects to see significant production deployments of centralized virtualized desktops. Learn More In this Issue Into the cloud -- securely EU privacy overhaul: Small businesses get exemptions Why Patagonia Opts for a Wacky eBay Storefront (K4) Salesforce.com launches Desk.com help-desk service For 'Malware as a Service' merchants, business is booming Microsoft fine-tunes Windows 8 Beta with input from users WHITE PAPER: Internap New eBook: Choosing a Green Colocation Provider As the world's appetite for apps increases, so does the demand for processing power and the energy to fuel it. Is your colocation provider truly addressing this growing need with sensitivity to the environment? Learn More Into the cloud -- securely 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." Read More EU privacy overhaul: Small businesses get exemptions Most start-ups and small businesses with fewer than 250 employees will be exempt from a new obligation to appoint a data protection officer, according to the European Union's (EU) new data privacy proposals. Read More WHITE PAPER: Juniper Security Considerations for the Cloud-Ready Data Center A network-centric approach to providing security in the data center delivers benefits such as scalability, unified security policy definition and enforcement, visibility into application traffic, and reduced operations overhead. Learn how to effectively manage the risks. View Now Why Patagonia Opts for a Wacky eBay Storefront (K4) When the IT shop at Patagonia was handed a new project to link its website to eBay's, there was no need to look for an ROI. Everyone could see there would be none. The idea was to create a branded storefront on eBay for people selling used Patagonia clothing--a rival sales channel that anyone shopping on the company's website could visit with a click. Read More Salesforce.com launches Desk.com help-desk service Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled a new SaaS (software as a service) help-desk application called Desk.com that can reach end users through social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Read More WHITE PAPER: Raritan Why Managing VMs is So Complex Because virtual servers coexist with nonvirtualized ones, it effectively doubles the tools and efforts relevant to data center administration. Discover how a unified, out-of-band approach that aggregates management tools into a single, consolidated platform, renders the virtual and physical layers transparent from an IT management perspective. Read now! For 'Malware as a Service' merchants, business is booming Malware merchants have matured, and are more diversified and dangerous than ever. Read More Microsoft fine-tunes Windows 8 Beta with input from users Microsoft continues to tinker with Windows 8 even as it finalizes its beta version, acting on suggestions it received from users who have experimented with the Windows 8 Developer Preview. Read More
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