Top five stories of the week

BANGALORE, INDIA: Take a look at the top five stories of the week that gives you a broad picture of the SMB outlook in 2009 and also a couple of solutions to keep the going smooth.

* SMB: Road ahead in 2009

SMB market is rapidly adopting IT deployments for business efficiency and enhanced business operations

*Top SMB challenges for 2009: Dax Networks

Dax Networks' views on SMBs and how it is gearing up to help SMBs face the challenges ahead in 2009

* SMBs: What lies ahead in 2009?

Rajeev Mittal, Group Director, Small and Medium Enterprise, Microsoft India

*Preventing internal and external network threats

The phenomenal adoption of UTM solutions is due to the significant value that they add to a customer’s network security objectives

*Microsoft launches BizSpark for startups

BizSpark will provide Indian startups with software, support and visibility at now upfront costs