BANGALORE, INDIA: Presenting Elina Networks  views on SMBs and how it is gearing up to help SMBs face the challenges ahead in 2009.

Elina Networks is pioneering the effort in developing products and services tailored for distributed businesses. Elina Networks' innovative solutions provide a balance of security, performance, availability, and management. It delivers a network infrastructure on which distributed enterprises can transact their businesses, keeping pace with advances in technology and applications. Elina's products are engineered to offer optimum performance and enhanced functionality for its customers

SMBs are a key focus area for Elina's business, Elina is geared to address this market, by creating solutions that have the right capabilities at the right price point.

Major challenges working with SMBs

* Lack of awareness among SMBs in terms of technology solutions available in the market and how this can help their business. We address this challenge by easy to understand literature and demos.

* Cost of implementing a solution is the highest priority for SMBs. Our products enable distributed enterprises to connect, secure, integrate and manage connectivity, data and applications cost effectively. We are using the business in a box approach for SMB players who are cost conscious. We see this challenge as an opportunity.

* The Elina Team  with a strong domain expertise has in-depth understanding of the networking/security and data management needs of the Indian SMBs.

*Reaching the potential customer - Our existing partners/growing partner network help us reach our target. We understands that SMBs need extensive support.

Top technologies that should lead in 2009 

• Unified Communications
• Networking & VPN Security
• Data Management
• Network Connectivity
• Remote Infrastructure Management Services