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Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery Gaining Ground in Midmarket: Gartner
By 2014, 30 percent of midsize companies will have adopted recovery-in-the-cloud, also known as recovery-as-a-service (RaaS), to support IT operations recovery, up from just over 1 percent today, according to Gartner. RaaS describes the managed replication of virtual machines (VMs) and production data in a service provider’s cloud, together with the means to activate the…
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Best Buy Acquires MindShift Technologies for $167 Million
Big box retailer Best Buy said that it has reached an agreement to acquire MindShift Technologies, a managed service provider for small and midsize businesses, for $167 million. The company provides cloud services, data center services and professional services to more than 5,400 clients and 25,000 managed desktops in markets throughout the United States. Through…
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CompTIA Report Finds Small Businesses Support Tax Simplification
IT trade association CompTIA released a study that took a look at how taxes affect small and midsize businesses across the country, finding that overall, across both business size and form, opinions of the tax system were similar in one clear respect: An overwhelming majority of respondents noted that tax compliance is especially challenging for…
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Soft Labor Market Reflected in Small Business Employment Index: Report
Small businesses created 30,000 new jobs in October, but employees are working fewer hours and making less money. While small business employment grew by 0.14 percent in October, equating to an annual growth rate of 1.7 percent, hours worked and compensation decreased by 0.2 percent and 0.06 percent, respectively. These were among the results of…
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Intuit, Bank of America Partner on SMB Payroll Services
Bank of America and Intuit announced the availability of Intuit Full Service Payroll for Bank of America small business customers, which provides guaranteed error-free paychecks and payroll taxes, as well as a team of experts to address any number of payroll issues. One key feature is the guaranteed 100 percent accuracy of federal, state and…
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AT&T Launches Cloud-Based Mobile Marketing Platform for SMBs
Network operator AT&T announced the launch of its Messaging Toolkit, designed to allow small to medium-size businesses to distribute special offers, product updates and promotions in front of their customers in real time with a do-it-yourself portfolio of mobile marketing solutions that can be accessed from a cloud-based Web portal. The Messaging Toolkit is a…