Special: Top Tech Trends for SMBs in 2009

BANGALORE, INDIA: As the economic landscape continues to shift, we see changes taking place in the way businesses are run. Enterprises are re-assessing their overall spending, not to leave behind the IT spends.With declining revenues and cash flows, small and medium businesses (SMBs) are facing the challenge of the ability to do more with less.In the present global economic crisis, technology assumes even greater importance. Organizations are grappling to increase efficiency by optimizing the existing IT infrastructure with reduced costs.In this scenario, what are the technology trends that help the SMBs perform better and gain more with less?According to analysts and industry experts, server virtualization and Green IT followed by WAN acceleration will be the technology trends adopted by SMBs in 2009. The market for WAN optimization is also fast becoming more mainstream, with enterprises seeking to deploy more robust infrastructure and reduce costs via consolidation and leverage technology to streamline business processes.By deploying such technologies, SMBs are looking at cutting costs, making data protection faster and cheaper, realising better ROI of the investments they make, thereby streamlining the business and preparing it for the future.CIOL bring you a special on “Top Tech Trends for SMBs in 2009”, which gives an overview of the top technologies to be adopted by SMBs this year and views/opinions from vendors and experts.Click on the stories below for in-depth reading...
VoIP over Wi-Fi will be of great interest for SMBs
SMBs should look at deploying a affordable, secure, manageable and robust Wi-Fi that allows them to increase user productivity in more places'Disruptive innovations help SMBs unlock significant potential'Increased PC adoption among SMBs will create new opportunities for information technology productsSMBs to deploy data leakage solution in 2009
In addition to deploying data leakage solutions, SMBs will also go in for SaaS model this yearVirtualization and UC among top technologies for SMBsWhile organizations are getting smarter and being more prepared, cyber crime operators are going one step aheadVirtualization, WAN optimization lead tech trends
According to Goldman Sachs IT Spending survey, Server Virtualization, Storage Virtualization and WAN Optimization top the list for IT spend by enterprises this yearCisco sees SMBs maturing, to bank on UC products
Says it is fully committed to reach out to its SMB customers and enable them to transform their businessesManaging data is the key for cost-effective operationsStorage environments which provide increased price/performance benefits are catching up Canon focuses on green initiativesCanon's version 6 Internet protocol helps enterprises connect to desired resources securely for necessary information exchange or operationsIT automation helps during slowdown
Visibility and automation for better control in an IT environment