As small businesses experience growing pains, they often add computers to improve efficiency. Eventually, efficiency diminishes as critical information and processes spread across multiple computers.

The latest small-business implementation of Windows Server, Windows Small Business Server 2008 (SBS 2008), is now available for public testing, with an official release date of 12 November. However, ...

Small businesses frequently forgo a network server when first starting out, either because they lack the money, or they don’t believe a small business server is essential at the outset. The ...

Microsoft's revamp of SBS takes the sting out of setup and admin for IT-challenged shops, without sacrificing the functionality that all businesses need A small business is not necessarily a simple ...

Today's computers make networking easy. Call the local cable or phone company to install a wireless router, change a few settings on each computer, configure a wireless printer and the network is up ...

One big problem for any small business adding a server to its network is the inescapable fact that IT infrastructure requires management. Small organisations can't afford full-time IT support, and ...

Microsoft Defender for Business now has the ability to protect servers, which is at the preview stage, according to a Wednesday Microsoft announcement. Support is available for Windows servers, as ...

Mac OS X Server is Apple’s Unix server operating system. At its core, OS X Server shares a number of components with FreeBSD, and most Linux or xBSD apps can be recompiled fairly easily to run on OS X ...

Is Your Next Small Business Server a Blade Server? Remember Don Johnson’s cell phone on Miami Vice? Mobile devices have certainly gotten a lot smaller since then. The same thing has happened with ...

Seagate’s Business Storage Windows Server is a fast file server, and it delivers better default security than Linux-based devices. But it’s write speed renders it less appealing for client backups.

Microsoft announced on Monday that it had no details to share about Skype for Business Server "vNext," which is a "subscription-only" version of the product designed for customer premises ...