SME
SME
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises or SMEs are companies whose headcount or turnover falls below certain limits.
The abbreviation SME occurs commonly in the EU and in international organizations, such as the World Bank, the United Nations and the WTO. The term Small or Medium sized Business or SMB has become more standard in a few other countries
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ProDefence to Launch Email Archiving Appliance into $1 billion market! ProDefence Distribution is pleased to announce the UK launch of NorthSeas Guard E/N (pronounced Guardian) email archiving appliance. The Guard E/N is the first product of it’s kind to aim at a market that is expected to be worth $1 billion dollars by 2008. The Radicati Group has predicted the market for email archiving will grow to $2.5 billion by 2008 with 40% (at a conservative estimate) likely for appliances!
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[more] UK the poor cousin of Europe's business travel UK business people have firmer ties to their desks than their European counterparts, a new survey has found - but a little extra Wi-Fi would help get them out of the actual office.
According to research from Benchmark Reporting, conducted for HP, the Dutch are the keenest to go mobile, with 66 per cent of small businesses executives from the Netherlands saying they regularly travel for businesses.
Just 33 per cent of UK SMEs do the same, almost o......
[more] Two-thirds of UK businesses fail to patch Nearly two-thirds of UK small businesses are failing to install patches as soon as they are released by vendors, according to a new study. The survey of 449 IT managers by secure email service company Inty, found that 59 percent of UK SMEs do not deploy new application software patches as soon as they are released by vendors. The main reason was the time required to test patches and roll them out to affected computers."It's alarming to see that......
[more] Viruses still the biggest IT fear for U.K. firms The vast majority of U.K.-based small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) believe that viruses are the biggest security threat to their IT systems, according to new research. According to a poll by IT reseller WStore, 84 percent of small firms rate viruses as their biggest security headache. The study also said viruses are feared by larger enterprises to almost the same extent, with over 70 percent citing them as "a major concern."......
[more] GTA Expands Firewall Family with Gigabit Firewall Global Technology Associates, Inc., (GTA), today announced a high-powered firewall appliance, the GB-3000 Gigabit Firewall Appliance. The cost effective GB-3000 is designed for SME businesses with gigabit networks. The GB-3000 provides support for up to twelve network interfaces, ten of which can operate at speeds up to 1 gigabit per second. "Many SME businesses are moving to gigabit networks at their offices and the......
[more] Sophos launches new suite of it security solutions for small businesses Sophos announced the availability of its new integrated security solution for small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The launch of the product coincides with research discovering that most small businesses are failing to adequately protect themselves from malicious attack.Sophos Security Suite provides an all-in-one defence against threats on Windows and Mac computers, laptops and servers. The software has been designed......
[more] McAfee Wins the Most Awards at SC Magazine Event McAfee, Inc. today announced that it has won the most awards of any vendor at the 2007 SC Magazine's European Annual Award. McAfee won "Best Anti-Malware Solution" for McAfee Secure Internet Gateway, "Best Anti-Malware Solution" for McAfee Policy Enforcer and "Best SME Security Solution" for McAfee Total Protection for Small Business. "We are delighted to win the awards in three categories," said Mike......
[more] Staff blamed for SME security breaches But is it a matter of policy? IT managers in small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) blame their fellow workers for online security breaches - despite the fact many SMEs still don't enforce web usage policies.More than a quarter of European SME IT managers said they believe company employees are responsible for security problems, according to research commissioned by security software company Websense.The most frustrating problem for IT managers is employe......
[more] IT managers: Staff to blame for security breaches IT managers within small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) blame employees for internet security breaches, despite many companies failing to implement online usage policies, new figures show. The study, which was commissioned by internet security firm Websense, found that more than a quarter of European SME IT managers believe their staff are ultimately responsible for online security breaches.However, less than half (47 per cent) of the IT mana......
[more] SME surfers under threat Employees within SMEs freely surf the web for an average of two and a half hours a week, however less than half of SME IT managers admit to using web filtering software and security.According to research from vendor Websense, 66 per cent of SME employees trust their company has the correct security measures in place, without inquiring about them. Thirty one per cent of employees have used online credit card details, at work without having questioned the IT managers abou......
[more] The Patch Window Is Closing When a security hole is uncovered, there is a brief span of time, known as the patch window, in which an SME can patch the system before an attack is unleashed. But according to Scott Montgomery, vice president of product management at Secure Computing, that window is quickly disappearing. Now, attackers are discovering security holes and writing attacks almost instantly, causing the patch window to shrink at an alarming rate. IT departments that are already heavily......
[more] UK tech gets £30m Xmas bonus Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has unveiled a £30m investment fund for UK technology businesses looking to expand. The government is hoping its cash injection will attract further investment from the private sector to fund the development of SMEs specialising in IT, electronics and instrumentation. The fund is part of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform's (Berr) Enterprise Capital Funds (ECF) programme. ECF grants supply equity......
[more] Cybercrime losses tax UK small business Cybercrime and fraud are costing Britain's small business £800 a year each, according to a survey by the UK's Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). The SME lobbying group is calling for more action to tackle online crime as a response. More than half (54 per cent) of smaller businesses polled in the survey said they were a victim of crime in one way or another over the last 12 months – 37 per cent reported problems with phishing emails, 15 per cent were af......
[more] Is there hope for unified comms? The evangelists are calling for businesses to implement unified communications (UC), citing a whole raft of reasons - from cost savings to improved customer service and better productivity. But, although few dispute that the technology can offer benefits, UC uptake still has a long way to go. It isn't just anecdotal evidence that tells this story - although plenty of that is available. When we at Freeform Dynamics asked enterprises across Europe......
[more] Google planning assault on unified comms market Google is gearing up to become a major player in the unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) space, according to Frost & Sullivan. The analyst firm said in a new report that Google's growing market dominance in applications and mobility will help it find traction in this area in the coming years. Report author Dorota Oviedo explained that Google's position in the SME and consumer markets with tools like Gmail, Docs, Calendar and Voi......
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