SMEs must get online
The country manager of VeriSign India, Shekhar Kirani says, “While small and medium enterprises (SMEs) realise the importance of technology to boost business, they are still doing business with a known set of people,” according to The Hindu Business Line.
“They want to go on the Web, but do not know how to go about it. They are not interested in finding out how they can establish an online presence, instead lament that no one has reached out to them,” he says.
Following his visit to SME clusters, Kirani observed that “most of them use the net to access mails and have still not moved from e-mail to Web, whereas the market dynamics is witnessing a sea change, particularly in the way products are consumed or sold on the Web.
Compellent unveils QuickStart bundles
Compellent Technologies has released QuickStart SE bundles to enable small businesses to adopt storage virtualisation for increased data efficiency and scale to enterprise-level storage management capabilities on a single platform, SNS Europe reports.
Compellent's QuickStart SE bundles provide the benefits of enterprise capabilities such as automated, continuous data protection and resource monitoring that were previously unavailable to the fast-growing SME market.
Based on input from its channel sales force, Compellent's QuickStart SE solution was developed for growing businesses moving from direct-attached storage to shared storage, which can better support their transition to fully virtualised data centres and lower IT costs.
Red tape hampers SMEs
The regulatory burden is apparently proving too much for some of the UK's small businesses, states Management Today.
Excessive regulation is not only hampering small business growth and development, but also in some cases forcing firms to down-size or close, according to the Federation of Small Businesses.
The lobby group reckons that almost 300 000 jobs could be saved just by putting a stop to all new business regulation and simplifying red tape. With bad debts still escalating and concerns over bank lending still prevalent, more new rules are the last thing small firms need.
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