Author Archives: Tavishi Agrawal

Sound Planning for Deployment of Cloud-Based Solutions Ensures Success for SMBs

IT projects are notorious for running over budget and time frames. This is especially true for implementation of new technologies, whether on-premise or in the cloud. Therefore, SMBs should carefully plan for the deployment of new cloud solutions. Develop a … Continue reading

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Cloud Computing Levels the Playing Field for SMBs

Since the emergence of the Internet in early 90s, experts have been predicting the use of software applications over the Internet, whereby users did not need to install any applications software and servers on their own premises. Instead, they could … Continue reading

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SMB Business Intelligence Spend & Adoption: Market Ripe for Growth

Global SMB Business Intelligence spend is estimated to be US$2.9 Billion in 2011, a little more than half of estimated spend by Enterprises at US$5.7 Billion. However, confusion abounds because of proliferation of front-end analytics tools and back-end Business Intelligence … Continue reading

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VMware SMB Strategy: Products to address Small Business Virtualization Needs

VMware just announced two new and updated cloud offerings for the SMBs – VMware Go Pro and VMware vCenter Protect Essentials Plus. VMware Go Pro is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product designed to make it easy for SMBs to manage, monitor, … Continue reading

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SMBs Unmistakable March to Virtualization

The entire IT industry is on an unmistakable path to virtualization with certain segments adopting it faster than others (e.g. financial sector, hosting companies, etc.) Server virtualization is still the primary driver of virtualization although, in the last couple of … Continue reading

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Channel Partners and SaaS Vendors should Verticalize their Applications

SMB SaaS is of high interest to the Vendors and the Channels as well as the SMBs themselves. This high interest has been fed by the promise of lower cost of ownership, avoiding software upgrade cycles and licensing fee and … Continue reading

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Dell’s SMB Strategy in India: Winning, For How Long?

Complex PC Reseller Landscape There are 30,288 channel partners in India, out of which 24,850 are PC resellers. As per Techaisle research, volume resellers account for 12 percent of all resellers but they constitute 47 percent of PC shipments. 50.2 … Continue reading

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SMB Mobility Solutions Adoption Trends

Recently, Techaisle conducted a very detailed study on SMBs adoption of Mobility Solutions across several countries. It is quite evident that Mobility Solutions are important for SMBs and a high percentage of these businesses are actively implementing them. The level … Continue reading

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New Technologies – Cloud, Mobility, Managed Services Will Finally Change SMB Channel Landscape

Techaisle’s recently completed channel surveys show that Cloud, Mobility, and Managed Services Solutions together are beginning to change the SMB channel landscape as these solutions are revolutionizing IT utilization by SMBs. However, only 14% of channels are currently offering all three … Continue reading

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Tablet PCs and Relative Views on PC Cannibalization

Recently we conducted a survey of small businesses to understand the adoption and cannibalization of traditional PC market by iPads and thereby Tablet PCs. Keeping aside the survey results for another time, a different blog and a report – our … Continue reading

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