Small-to-Medium Businesses

Case Study: SaaS for SMBs

Thursday, 14 August 2008 11:46 InfoStreet

A serial entrepreneur of successful businesses
relies on a series of SaaS applications to power his growing portfolio

Venture Capitalist Adi McAbian has a proven track record for creating, growing and selling successful businesses. He attributes much of his success to his single-minded devotion to following through with an idea and knowing what business tools can aid in growing that idea. “Inspiration for a new business can hit you at any moment,” says McAbian. “The secret lies in being able to harness that idea and quickly bring it to fruition in a cost-effective manner.” To accomplish this, McAbian is a longtime devotee of the web-delivered (also called Software-as-a-Service or SaaS) model for quickly and easily building a company’s infrastructure. To-date, McAbian has built over a dozen successful companies, all of which were built upon the StreetSmart information technology (IT) platform – developed by Tarzana-based company, InfoStreet. StreetSmart provided the IT infrastructure to power McAbian’s prolific business savvy, offering such tools as: custom IMAP email, file sharing, portal creation, CRM, address book, calendaring, workflow, synching tools and more.

Virtualized Disaster Recovery: Cost-Conscious, Strategic Solutions for the SMB

Monday, 11 February 2008 08:36 administrator

By Kevin Harris

Historically, deep pocketed, large enterprises have been well versed in disaster recovery (DR) and understand the severe implications for failing to implement a robust and well thought out plan. While there are certainly dozens of compelling reasons for having an outsourced hot site, it comes at a high cost.

As a result, the small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have been less vigilant with their DR plans and are seemingly willing to risk a disaster tomorrow to save a penny today.

Given the spectrum of disasters that may impact a company's IT operations and the resulting grave consequences for not having a DR strategy, why are so many of these enterprises "flying blind" without an integrated data insurance policy? The reasons can be varied.

Industrial-Grade Storage for SMBs

Friday, 28 December 2007 06:30 administrator

By Paul Massiglia

It's long been the case that large enterprises cannot operate without their digital information assets. Whether its sales records, designs, video clips, security logs, or experimental results, the amount of data has become so prodigious that dealing with it electronically is the only practical option. Electronic data is so important to the conduct of business that virtually no large enterprise lacks professional-quality electronic data storage, along with fault and disaster recovery and data protection strategies.