Achieving effective network security for small business requires a solution designed to fit your needs today and can adapt to tomorrow's threats. This paper examines how best to protect your network, as well as the benefits a secure environment offers. 

This paper dispels some myths about BI in smaller companies and outlines the main options at your disposal. 

Small and midsize companies that can successfully align IT with their business objectives will be the ones to stay ahead of the competition by having access to the right information at the right time, allowing for better, faster decisions. 

Like their larger counterparts, small businesses are turning to innovative, network-based communication tools to work more efficiently for less. Cisco offers a number of unified communications solutions tailored specifically to small businesses. 

This white paper will discuss Catalyst XPS, a tool that can integrate information from all the major small parcel carriers into one view, fully integrated with SAP. Catalyst XPS can save customers money and improve customer service, without creating an additional maintenance burden on their internal IT team. 

Today there is new and affordable technology that enables small businesses to access current data from any location, respond quickly to change, and thrive in a volatile business environment. A good example of this technology is the SAP® Business One application. Read this white paper to learn more! 

To provide relief and encourage continued growth, the U.S. Congress recently passed the Recovery Act-legislation that offers economic help to small businesses to help them to survive and thrive. Read the following Q+A to learn how businesses can take advantage of stimulus funds. 

Raymond Boggs, vice president of SMB research for the global market intelligence firm IDC, recently talked to Cisco® about how companies can use unified communications to successfully conduct business in multiple countries - with or without offices in those countries. 

The planning sequence described in this paper covers the design of the data center's physical infrastructure layer, whose job it is to house, power, cool, and protect the data center's computing and network functions. 

APC® by Schneider Electric enables you to adapt your data center to the changing needs of a business. With the same InfraStruXure® HD-Ready architecture, you can start out with a low-density data center, and later scale up to high density as needed without picking up the phone to call for more capacity, engineering or quotes. 

Your small business needs a real server. Not a PC that has been tricked out to look and act like a server. PCs disguised as servers are vulnerable to the kinds of catastrophic failures that will cripple your business. Invest now in a real server. It just may be the best thing you can do for your small business. 

This whitepaper is about enterprise architecture as it pertains to finding and maximizing the business value in greener operations. Higher energy efficiency and a smaller carbon footprint are obvious areas of interest for any business, but how do you balance these goals with productivity, customer service, and all your other business concerns?