Comments for SMB IT Journal http://www.smbitjournal.com The Information Technology Resource for Small Business Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:44:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on In House Email for Small Businesses by Tino http://www.smbitjournal.com/2010/02/in-house-email-for-small-businesses/comment-page-1/#comment-446 Tino Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:44:26 +0000 http://www.smbitjournal.com/?p=93#comment-446 Hi Scott Enjoyed reading your article. How do you think the VMWare acquisition of Zimbra is going to affect the product? I already think since you wrote this article that Zimbra is now offered as a Virtual Appliance on VMware. Will it become a proprietary system and move to a "cost + support" based model or retain it's open source roots and stay within reach of the SMB ? best regards Tino Hi Scott

Enjoyed reading your article. How do you think the VMWare acquisition of Zimbra is going to affect the product? I already think since you wrote this article that Zimbra is now offered as a Virtual Appliance on VMware. Will it become a proprietary system and move to a “cost + support” based model or retain it’s open source roots and stay within reach of the SMB ?

best regards

Tino

]]> Comment on Virtualization for Small Business by DeidraJow http://www.smbitjournal.com/2010/02/virtualization-for-small-business/comment-page-1/#comment-426 DeidraJow Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:23:14 +0000 http://www.smbitjournal.com/?p=37#comment-426 Hi Scott, Thanks for the excellent post on virtualization and the SMB marketplace. I thought you did a good job of providing the background and IT justification for virtualization. I thought I'd chime in with some resource links from Microsoft. They're trying to tailor help to the SMB community and they have a couple of tools / links below that might be worth checking out for those who want further resources. Best, Deidra The Microsoft SMB Outreach Team v-dejow@microsoft.com Links: http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/hub.mspx Microsoft Small Business Center http://www.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/ Pinpoint tool to help you find technology experts and special applications http://www.microsoft.com/business/mycenter/default.aspx?CR_CC= Microsoft Business Resource Center Hi Scott,

Thanks for the excellent post on virtualization and the SMB marketplace. I thought you did a good job of providing the background and IT justification for virtualization.

I thought I’d chime in with some resource links from Microsoft. They’re trying to tailor help to the SMB community and they have a couple of tools / links below that might be worth checking out for those who want further resources.

Best,

Deidra
The Microsoft SMB Outreach Team
v-dejow@microsoft.com

Links:
http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/hub.mspx
Microsoft Small Business Center
http://www.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/
Pinpoint tool to help you find technology experts and special applications
http://www.microsoft.com/business/mycenter/default.aspx?CR_CC=
Microsoft Business Resource Center

]]> Comment on Virtualization for Small Business by Jonathan http://www.smbitjournal.com/2010/02/virtualization-for-small-business/comment-page-1/#comment-364 Jonathan Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:53:46 +0000 http://www.smbitjournal.com/?p=37#comment-364 You may want to update the MacOS X section. Mac OS X Server 10.6 Snow Leopard can run as a guest on Parallels Server for Mac (http://www.parallels.com/products/server/mac/sr/). No affiliation with Parallels. On the contrary, I'm running VMware Fusion at home. You may want to update the MacOS X section. Mac OS X Server 10.6 Snow Leopard can run as a guest on Parallels Server for Mac (http://www.parallels.com/products/server/mac/sr/).

No affiliation with Parallels. On the contrary, I’m running VMware Fusion at home.

]]> Comment on In House Email for Small Businesses by Sheep Guarding Llama » Blog Archive » February 25, 2010: Birthday #34 http://www.smbitjournal.com/2010/02/in-house-email-for-small-businesses/comment-page-1/#comment-307 Sheep Guarding Llama » Blog Archive » February 25, 2010: Birthday #34 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:09:59 +0000 http://www.smbitjournal.com/?p=93#comment-307 [...] morning was pretty slow and I managed to get my latest article “In House Email for Small Businesses” posted on SMB IT [...] [...] morning was pretty slow and I managed to get my latest article “In House Email for Small Businesses” posted on SMB IT [...]

]]> Comment on RAID Revisited by Will Bradley http://www.smbitjournal.com/2010/02/raid-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Will Bradley Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:52:05 +0000 http://www.smbitjournal.com/?p=75#comment-272 I can't imagine that any tech who's ever experienced a hard drive (or array) failure would think that RAID was any sort of backup solution (aside from maybe a RAID 1 in which you take one of the drives out-- quick n simple mirror, but still not a "backup solution.") Good article though! I still haven't jumped into RAID10 but it's almost inevitable with how cheap drives are now. Big RAID5's scare me. I can’t imagine that any tech who’s ever experienced a hard drive (or array) failure would think that RAID was any sort of backup solution (aside from maybe a RAID 1 in which you take one of the drives out– quick n simple mirror, but still not a “backup solution.”)

Good article though! I still haven’t jumped into RAID10 but it’s almost inevitable with how cheap drives are now. Big RAID5’s scare me.

]]> Comment on Virtualization for Small Business by Will Bradley http://www.smbitjournal.com/2010/02/virtualization-for-small-business/comment-page-1/#comment-271 Will Bradley Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:49:40 +0000 http://www.smbitjournal.com/?p=37#comment-271 Thanks for this. I've known most of this for awhile now but it's good to see it clarified in terms of SMB since the biggest fear is "improper planning" -- i.e. using the hardware I'm already comfortable with instead of splurging on SANs or blades -- leading to catastrophe or just horrible ROI. Thanks for this. I’ve known most of this for awhile now but it’s good to see it clarified in terms of SMB since the biggest fear is “improper planning” — i.e. using the hardware I’m already comfortable with instead of splurging on SANs or blades — leading to catastrophe or just horrible ROI.

]]> Comment on Virtualization for Small Business by Jay http://www.smbitjournal.com/2010/02/virtualization-for-small-business/comment-page-1/#comment-269 Jay Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:32:21 +0000 http://www.smbitjournal.com/?p=37#comment-269 Great article Scott! Thumbs up! Do you have any real implementation / case study of implementing virtualization on SMB? I haven't poke around your website yet :-) Great article Scott! Thumbs up!
Do you have any real implementation / case study of implementing virtualization on SMB? I haven’t poke around your website yet :-)

]]> Comment on Using a Wiki for Quick Documentation by Lawrie Dalman http://www.smbitjournal.com/2009/05/using-a-wiki-for-quick-documentation/comment-page-1/#comment-235 Lawrie Dalman Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:31:48 +0000 http://www.smbitjournal.com/?p=42#comment-235 Thanks Scott, Andy gave me a link to this page and as usual it's a great read and super informative. Do you take subscriptions to the SMB IT Journal? If you do please add me. As always, with gratitude, Lawrie. Thanks Scott, Andy gave me a link to this page and as usual it’s a great read and super informative.
Do you take subscriptions to the SMB IT Journal? If you do please add me.

As always, with gratitude, Lawrie.

]]> Comment on The SMB IT and Vendor Relationship Dilema by Alex Reiss http://www.smbitjournal.com/2010/01/the-smb-it-and-vendor-relationship-dilema/comment-page-1/#comment-172 Alex Reiss Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:43:05 +0000 http://www.smbitjournal.com/?p=57#comment-172 Well said, Scott. Funny part is that every tech company acknowledges that the SMB space, and not Enterprise, will be where future revenue growth is found, yet when it's suggested they become involved with a community such as Spiceworks the usual answer is "we don't have the resources". That comment is followed by "so, what kind of banner click-thru rates can we expect". Well said, Scott. Funny part is that every tech company acknowledges that the SMB space, and not Enterprise, will be where future revenue growth is found, yet when it’s suggested they become involved with a community such as Spiceworks the usual answer is “we don’t have the resources”. That comment is followed by “so, what kind of banner click-thru rates can we expect”.

]]> Comment on Considering NetBooks for Small Business by Abraham Narvaez http://www.smbitjournal.com/2009/03/considering-netbooks-for-small-business/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Abraham Narvaez Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:49:55 +0000 http://www.smbitjournal.com/?p=14#comment-165 We came across your website and we are reaching out to inquire if your firms enters into any IT Service Provider Partnerships/relationships. Please reach out via BINCOMMUNICATIONS@Yahoo.com Thanks We came across your website and we are reaching out to inquire if your firms enters into any IT Service Provider Partnerships/relationships.

Please reach out via BINCOMMUNICATIONS@Yahoo.com

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