Moving from self-hosted to cloud-hosted e-mail services makes a lot of people nervous, but with a little planning and good communication with your user base, there's no reason it has to be hard.
With only three "critical" vulnerabilities to patch in June, you'd think that it was going to be an easy week for system administrators -- but you'd be wrong.
<b>The VAR Guy:</b> "It's one small step for Dell, and one big strategic win for Canonical's Ubuntu Linux cloud strategy. Specifically, Dell on March 24 said it would support Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) as an infrastructure solution."
<b>Computerworld:</b> "A new open source project, dubbed Opendedup, has appeared with the goal of creating a deduplication-based file system for Linux called SDFS."
Some integration has been done on these two products, and together they make a feature rich VoIP solution, but they're not for the technically faint of heart.
<b>Packt:</b> "This article by Christer Edwards, outlines how to install Ubuntu using the network installer. This utility allows you to install directly over the network, instead of using a CD or DVD image. It does require a small CD boot image, but beyond that it is entirely network dependent."
Small business CRM software to simplify customer follow-up, plus a secret weapon for selling on eBay, tips that save you time and a lesson from Honda on target marketing.
Small business CRM software to simplify customer follow-up, plus a secret weapon for selling on eBay, tips that save you time and a lesson from Honda on target marketing.
Google's recent acquisition of Plink signals the company's growing interest in all things mobile. Is visual search a trend for ecommerce owners to watch?
If a competitor doesn't act quickly, the wildly successful iPad will become the new Microsoft Office -- the high-priced standard we'll never be able to get rid of.
<b>Technology FLOSS:</b> "It's a guy who has set up DNAT on netfilter to forward packets that are sent to one host to another server that does the real work. Think of it as a proxy."
Let your customers know you are the expert by offering a free eBook. This week, we offer ecommerce marketing tips for writing and distributing your own eBook.
<b>Open Enterprise:</b> "It seems every day we hear about hideous cost overruns on public sector projects in the UK. What makes it even more frustrating is that open source, a real no-brainer for many applications, is rarely given the chance to prove itself here."
The latest market share figures from Netcraft show VeriSign's made significant gains. But the report also shows why the SSL market is hard to quantify.
Set to debut in beta release next month, the next major release of Mozilla's popular open source browser will include a slew of new features and enhancements amid growing competition from upstart rivals such as Google Chrome and Apple Safari.
<b>Wine-Reviews:</b> "MicroOLAP Database Designer for PostgreSQL is an easy CASE tool with intuitive graphical interface allowing you to build a clear and effective database structure visually, see the complete picture (diagram) representing all the tables, references between them, views, stored procedures and other objects"
Are inkjets as good as laser printers? The answer depends on your small business printing needs. But if you're on a tight budget, think monochrome laser.
<b>Ghacks:</b> "Some of them get recognized as the outstanding projects they are. One of those tools is Luckybackup. This tool was awarded Sourceforge's best new project of 2009."
Convenience is great, as long as you don’t inadvertently place your business at risk. We show you how to encrypt the data on those very convenient, if easy-to-lose, flash drives.