Category: Cloud Computing

ERP: Now showing at a phone near you

Posted on 08/04/10 by Mothernode

If you’re a small business owner — whether you have no employees or 100 — chances are, you have a smartphone. Whether it’s a Blackberry, iPhone, Palm Pre, or the Motorola Droid, you probably rely on your phone to manage your calendar, read your email, check the weather, catch up on the news, update your [...]

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Fear: what separates small businesses from the big boys

Posted on 07/31/10 by Mothernode

Some of you probably grew up knowing of nothing else but the Internet and laptop computing. I bet, though, that many of you can still remember when you and/or your employees first used a computer. If you remember making the shift from storing information in manila folders to file folders on a computer, you may [...]

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Security and cloud computing

Posted on 06/04/10 by Mothernode

Cloud computing and its potential to offer powerful computing and data storage options to even bootstrapped small businesses at highly competitive prices have generated plenty of excitement in the industry. So much so, however, that critical questions regarding the security of the data stored “in the cloud” are often overlooked by its most enthusiastic adopters. [...]

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