Small, medium and micro enterprises (SMEs) have always been the backbone of the Indian economy. Role of SMEs in the economic development of India like SMEs act as a cure for numerous economic woes such as poverty, regional imbalances, unemployment, and income inequalities. SMEs are also considered to be the growth engines of developing countries like India. With the emergence ...

Google recently announced the global launch of Google Partners, a program that the company claims to be designed to exclusively support web professionals and agencies that helps business succeed online.  The programme is said to be a part of Google’s efforts to enable small-to-medium businesses gain from the internet.    Many small businesses in India rely on web professionals and ...

Network security firm SonicWall has launched a new backup and recovery appliance for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) designed to protect business-critical data, applications and systems. SonicWall Continuous Data Protection (CDP) provides automatic transparent backup functionality, which ensures that data, apps and systems are protected from common user error, hardware failure, deletion, potential disaster and malicious attack, the firm said.A ...

NetApp’s decision to kill off its StoreVault product, targeted to the SMB market and sold through NetApp’s channel partner solution providers, is raising eyebrows across the industry, and opening up opportunities for the storage giant’s competition. In tough economic times, it’s not unusual for vendors to reevaluate their product lines and eliminate those that aren’t performing well. But Network Appliance’s ...

A recent survey conducted by Really Simple Systems, the UK’s largest hosted Customer Relationship Management (CRM) vendor, has revealed that Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) are readily embracing hosted applications. The survey questioned SME business owners, directors, sales, marketing and IT managers, on their stance on Software as a Service (SaaS) and the reliability of the products currently available. ...

Unified threat management vendor Astaro and distributor Arc Technology have launched a joint campaign to help VARs secure SME business. The campaign, which will run for at least six months, includes joint marketing, training and lead-generation activities. Astaro said it will accompany several new partners to client sites each quarter. Telemarketing activities run out of Arc will focus on different ...

Presently, the first type of e-business computer for SMEs jointly developed by Lenovo, Alibaba and Intel was launched officially. Only three months before that, Lenovo announced to join in the SME e-business plan “Aiding China”, which is driven by Alibaba and Intel. The launched of the computer was undoubtedly a market move to carry out the said plan. The new ...

AIS joins force with 6 major partners launching “SMEs Krob-Krueng,” a perfect mix of total package including domestic and international calls, Hi-Speed Internet, mobile phone, Net Book, business software and etc. under the concept DNA, staying beside the Thai SMEs entrepreneurs for Thailand to proceed at full course Wichian  Mektrakarn, president of Advanced Info Service, disclosed “As the economy is ...

Kaseya, a global provider of IT automation software for IT solutions providers and public and private sector organisations, announced that the Kaseya IT Automation Platform has been selected by UK-based company Sagari to form the technology foundation of its newly-created IT services business. Kaseya, a global provider of IT automation software for IT solutions providers and public and private sector ...