Version 5 of Parallels Desktop is 300% faster, improves graphic performance, and adds 70 features. Improvements in ability to run Windows and Linux could help more Macs find homes in small and midsize businesses.Full Article

Small-business owners frustrated with Windows Vista's assorted hardware incompatibilities, ceaseless battery of pop-up alerts and puttering speeds can officially unclench their jaws and ease those quivering fists away from their screens.Microsoft's ...

New Yankee Group SMB data predicts severe cutbacks in tech spending, particularly in cloud computing and Software as a Service (Saas) as well as unified communications. The bright spot? Mobile applications.Full Article

The rise of Web-based apps, virtualization, and a crop of powerful mobile devices have the traditional PC desktop on the run.Full Article

Software-as-a-service lets SMBs pay only for what they need, but you need to make sure you get the system performance you've paid for.Full Article

New Dark Reading report offers a look at the strengths, weaknesses of security software-as-a-service offerings -- and how to choose the right providerFull Article

From remote access to security and SaaS readiness, these 8 Windows 7 features and technologies point to the future of the desktop -- and could make a difference to your small or midsize business today.Full Article

Small and midsize businesses can increasingly expect to find high-speed connections whenever they need them, but they still need to accommodate the still-significant group of customers stuck with slower-speed lines.Full Article

With XenDesktop 4, Citrix says IT managers will be able to configure virtualization options for various sets of end users. But do smaller companies get big benefits from desktop virtualization?Full Article

FinancialForce.com, a startup providing financial and accounting software as a service, is getting a minority investment and on-campus office space from Salesforce.com. Will it be a new alternative for SMBs?Full Article

On the Web, services such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter are the undisputed kings of free, providing robust services at no charge to users. But a host of other companies use free in a much more traditional way--as an enticement for paid upgrades. ...

New strategies by SuccessFactors and Taleo show how SaaS vendors plan to maintain strong growth.Full Article

Responding to worries that its ESXi hypervisor is tricky to install and maintain, VMware creates an online configuration tool to help small and midsize companies get started with virtualization.Full Article

Few and far between are the entrepreneurs who havent actively flipped through the pages of popular financial publications such as The Wall Street Journal or defining tomes like The Tipping Point. But thanks to e-book readers such as Sonys newly ...

The IT outsourcing company has teamed with Oracle to offer a platform service that software companies can use to make their apps available via SaaS -- and thus more affordable to SMBs.Full Article

The Xen.org project will adopt much of the Citrix Systems virtual infrastructure and aims to supply a full virtualization environment.Full Article

When you started your first business, who answered the phones? Was it you? Your mother? That nice guy you hired for his baritone pipes, until he billed thousands of dollars in inappropriate charges to your fledgling firm?It probably didnt take long ...

VMWare's VMsafe program is bringing more security options to the world of server virtualization.Full Article

Some people freeze up the second the camera starts recording. Savvy entrepreneurs should instead sit up straight, smile and embrace the opportunity to promote their small businesses through one of the simplest and most cost-effective online ...

In this video interview, StorageIO's Greg Schultz warns of the dark side of virtualization for SMBs who go to far, too fast with the technology.Full Article

In a live video interview, Greg Schultz, senior analyst at StorageIO, explains why small and midsize companies are even more invested in virtualization than are large enterprises.Full Article

From teleconferencing to telecommuting, universal broadband rewrites the rules on how small and midsize companies do business.Full Article

WiMAX will likely never become a mainstream broadband platform, but it could have a bright future in niche markets and rural areas.Full Article

As an entrepreneur, you want to be on the lookout for the newest trends that help keep you lean and profitable. One thing you may want to consider is implementing an online network as an integral part of your business.As a person with strong ...

First it was a web browser. Then it became an operating system. But look a step further, and its not hard to see how Googles Chrome could potentially become the springboard for an entirely new generation of entrepreneurs.Like all operating systems, ...