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<description>Weekly insight on market trends, influential occurrences, intelligence and global perspective related to the development, sales and use of Information Technology for Small Businesses.</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:03:05 CDT</pubDate>
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<webMaster>khoi@sbtechnologyinstitute.org</webMaster><item><title><![CDATA[Storage Appliances Adoption Trends]]></title>
    <link>http://www.sbtechnologymagazine.org/research/marketupdate/marketUpdateArticle.php?MarketUpdateID=34</link>
    <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Storage appliances represent today's enterprise solution to mounting data storage needs, but will adoption among the more than 20 million American small businesses follow suit? As more affordable and robust servers and storage appliances emerge to meet their unique needs, small businesses stand to benefit greatly from new ways to store and share data.
Small businesses still rely heavily on disk space on end-user desktop computers to store shared files and, almost half of them use a server or dedicated machine ... <br><b>by Andrea Peiro</b>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small Businesses and the IT Support Challenge]]></title>
    <link>http://www.sbtechnologymagazine.org/research/marketupdate/marketUpdateArticle.php?MarketUpdateID=33</link>
    <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Small businesses are quickly realizing that Information Technology (IT) infrastructures are essential to operate effectively and profitably. Supporting and maintaining hardware, software, networks and websites can be a very onerous task for a small company. A new Snap Insight report sheds light on how small companies approach the challenge of managing and supporting their technology assets. The survey of 144 U.S. small businesses with 100 or ... <br><b>by Andrea Peiro</b>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[SB Technology Adoption by Numbers: Near Term Trends ]]></title>
    <link>http://www.sbtechnologymagazine.org/research/marketupdate/marketUpdateArticle.php?MarketUpdateID=2</link>
    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The numbers 
Small businesses are coming of age as technology users at a very rapid rate, quickly understanding that IT is not anymore a competitive advantage, but a competitive requirement. In the US only according to 2005 SBA census data (http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/sb_econ2005.pdf) there are over 18 million sole proprietors and over 5 million employers with less than 100 employees. Estimating 2.5 potential computer users per each employer firm and 75% of sole proprietors in a position to directly benefit from ... <br><b>by Andrea Peiro</b>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[2007 Hot Technologies Forecast. The year of ubiquitous and protected access to information]]></title>
    <link>http://www.sbtechnologymagazine.org/research/marketupdate/marketUpdateArticle.php?MarketUpdateID=6</link>
    <pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Based on my experience tracking, researching and analyzing the small business market during the past five years, the following technologies will in my opinion be reaching true mainstream in such market during 2007 seeing a substantial increase in purchase and use.
1 - Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliances providing all round digital security and spam filtering 

Companies to watch with solid SB offerings, ready for mainstream are: 

Sonicwall (SNWL: NASDAQ) www.sonicwall.com 
Fortinet www.fortinet.com 
TrustEli www.trusteli.com 
Coming up with ... <br><b>by Andrea Peiro</b>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Data Becomes Strategic Asset for Small Businesses, Driving Rapid Market Growth for Storage, Security HW and SW]]></title>
    <link>http://www.sbtechnologymagazine.org/research/marketupdate/marketUpdateArticle.php?MarketUpdateID=5</link>
    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The intrinsic value of a business in the new millennium is rapidly shifting from its structured processes to its business data and the capability to leverage it.
To run a small business competitively and predictably the new generation of entrepreneurs must increasingly rely on frequent access to growing amounts of business information: from what products are bought by the best customers to 30 day cash flow projection, from real-time project costing to the list of products available in inventory and their ... <br><b>by Andrea Peiro</b>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Changing Political Landscape and Influence on the Small Business Technology Market]]></title>
    <link>http://www.sbtechnologymagazine.org/research/marketupdate/marketUpdateArticle.php?MarketUpdateID=4</link>
    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Decisive political landscape changes such as the one witnessed during the recent U.S. mid-term elections have profound economic implications. Here are some examples of how the outcome of these elections will influence the small business market for information technology products:

1 - Higher priority on alternative energy research will speed up the mid term development of portable fuel cells and high-capacity batteries, translating into more rapid deployment of solutions for portable computing devices, accelerating the shift from desktop ... <br><b>by Andrea Peiro</b>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Churn rate and technology spending in the SB market]]></title>
    <link>http://www.sbtechnologymagazine.org/research/marketupdate/marketUpdateArticle.php?MarketUpdateID=3</link>
    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Every year about 10% of existing small businesses in the U.S. close their doors and a new 10% open up: the highest physiological &quot;churn rate&quot; in any business market.
Referring to the analysis in my previous Market Update (http://www.sbtechnologymagazine.org/research/marketupdate/marketUpdateArticle.php?MarketUpdateID=2) assessing the technology investment needed to start a business at about $7,000 per candidate user, and a total of 20 million current SB IT users, every year new SBs invest 14 billion dollars in start up IT cost. 
Developing outreach programs ... <br><b>by Andrea Peiro</b>]]></description></item></channel></rss>