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January 23, 2008 | Comments: (0)

We've got a new SMB IT podcast up, and it's a good one, with an interview covering questions about the value of a security information manager (SIM) for the small business space. It's a paradox, really: small businesses are most likely to need the help that a SIM can provide with event correlation and expert advice, yet many people feel that the SMB network is too small to benefit from a SIM's power. As I talk to SIM vendors, I hear that they're interested in moving "down market", from the large enterprise to the SMB, and I suspect we're going to start seeing more and more products that are aimed at the 200-seat and less network segments.

There's plent more to come, but until then you can listen to the podcast here.

Posted by Curt Franklin on January 23, 2008 10:16 AM

January 03, 2008 | Comments: (0)

A New Year's Podcast

Welcome to a new year of SMB IT. I'm going to start the year with the first episode in a new series of podcasts. My plan is for the podcasts to be weekly affairs with news of SMB IT products and issues along with interviews of vendors, service providers, and small-business IT professionals. Let me know what you think -- I want the podcast to be useful, informative, and enjoyable -- more the physician-prescribed glass of merlot than the heaping bowl of Prune-bran for your health.

In this week's episode you'll hear industry news and an interview with Garrett Fortune of Workflow.com.

You can download this week's episode by clicking on this link: Listen!

Posted by Curt Franklin on January 3, 2008 11:11 AM

June 08, 2007 | Comments: (0)

InfoWorld LIVE! Episode 14

After two weeks of reruns due to vicious evil scheduling problems, we managed to get another original episode in the can. This time we're talking about SMB backup trends as they pertain to online backup services. There's been an explosion in these services over the last year --does this spell the end of tape for SMBs? We answer that with interviews with the CEO of BitLeap and the Sr. VP of Product Development for eVault.

You can download this week's episode by clicking on this link: Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on June 8, 2007 10:35 AM

February 06, 2007 | Comments: (0)

InfoWorld LIVE! #3: Storage for 2007

Episode 3 of InfoWorld LIVE! is up for download. This week, we're doing a storage-oriented show, beginning with Iomega, moving to Zetera and finishing up with a short talk by our own Brian Chee on storage virtualization for SMBs.

And in case you missed the first two episodes, this is a pilot of a one-hour weekly radio show hosted by myself and Scott Draughon, who heads up the My Technology Lawyer resource site and radio show. We're hitting technology and business issues, talking about the inner workings of InfoWorld and making fun Brian and Paul.

And looking for sponsors.

You can download this week's episode by clicking on this link: Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on February 6, 2007 12:34 PM

January 30, 2007 | Comments: (0)

New Radio Show: InfoWorld LIVE! Episode 2

It's episode 2 of InfoWorld LIVE! and wouldn't you know it, she falls smack dab on Vista day. So to celebrate this august occasion, we've got Microsoft's lead Vista product manager, Greg Sullivan as our first guest. Then we also have JC Utter of infrastructure maker ImageStream talking about CALEA (scary) and finally InfoWorld's own Martin Heller getting into his recent review of Cast Iron.

Remember, InfoWorld LIVE! is a new weekly radio show manned by me and our pals over at My Technology Lawyer. We're in pilot mode now, so it's only running for 6 weeks unless we find a sponsor (marketing people take note!). My co-host, as ever, is tech attorney Scott Draughon and we spend an hour talking to vendors, IT folks and technology business executives about technology developments, market situations and even legal prognostications in the SMB space.

The show is on every Tuesday at 4:00pm-5:00pm EST, so tune in by heading to the My Technology Lawyer site (link above) and clicking on the radio show icon on the bottom right. From there, you can stream the show live. Or you can wait a bit and I'll post a link to it here every week.

You can download this week's episode by clicking on this link: Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on January 30, 2007 12:22 PM

January 24, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise: CES and Search Engine Optimization

We're back with SMB commentary on CES 2007 and then a short discussion on search engine optimization gotchas. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on January 24, 2007 01:27 PM

January 23, 2007 | Comments: (0)

New Radio Show: InfoWorld LIVE!

Apparently my voice isn't as grating as it sounds to me. I've just managed to get a gig as co-host of a weekly one-hour radio show in conjunction with the folks at the My Technology Lawyer Radio Show. We're in pilot mode now, so it's only running for 6 weeks unless we find a sponsor (marketing people take note!).

My co-host, as ever, is tech attorney Scott Draughon and we spend an hour talking to vendors, IT folks and technology business executives about technology developments, market situations and even legal prognostications in the SMB space.

The show is on every Tuesday at 4:00pm-5:00pm EST, so tune in by heading to the My Technology Lawyer site (link above) and clicking on the radio show icon on the bottom right. From there, you can stream the show live. Or you can wait a bit and I'll post a link to it here every week.

This week, we've got InfoWorld senior contributing editors Paul Venezia and Brian Chee. Paul is going to try and talk about virtualization to mere mortals while Brian is going to discuss security considerations for SMBs in 2007. We've also got High Mobley, co-founder of q!Bang Solutions talking about search engine optimization. You can download this episode by clicking on this link: Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on January 23, 2007 11:54 AM

December 20, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise: Online Marketing Tool and Group Chat

We're back again. This episode we're talking about a great online marketing tool: book publishing. After that, we take a close look at what's so great about group chat. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on December 20, 2006 08:20 AM

December 15, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise Podcast:: Spam Hell and Cell Phone Smarts

We're back. And even though we're behind, we're going to catch up before the holidays. This episode we're hitting how to respond to the new spam hell and then we talk about something else that's looming after you move to Vista and Exchange 2007: cell phones. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on December 15, 2006 10:27 AM

November 27, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise: Analyze Your Web Traffic and Don't Take Tech Too Far

Hey, I could have been on time, but that tryptophan is a killer. So once I woke up and gathered my wits, I put together this episode. First we hit how to analyze your web site's traffic. Then, I get to site a few examples of how not to take technology too far. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on November 27, 2006 10:23 AM

November 17, 2006 | Comments: (0)

More Oliver on Internet Radio

I get the feeling that my Emerging Enterprise podcasts have become massively popular. I'm suddenly getting seated in restaurants ahead of the line, I'm ordering food that's not on the menu and groupies are throwing their underwear at me wherever I go. It's fantastic...up until I wake up as me again.

But in case you do like the EE podcasts, I've got six weeks of more Internet radio at the My Technology Lawyer Internet radio show. I'll be having a segment with MTL's host, attorney Scott Draughon, about SMB technology and business issues every Thursday for the next six weeks (excepting next Thursday, due to Turkey Day, of course).

You can download or stream my first segment here.

Posted by Oliver Rist on November 17, 2006 03:38 PM

November 17, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise: Office Live Huzzah and Where's the Bill Pay?

This week we talk about why I love Office Live and why the Microsofters should have done it sooner. Then we talk about why they should have put eBill pay in there. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on November 17, 2006 10:33 AM

November 10, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise: DIY Dashboards and Evolutionary Notebook Stress

This week we talk about giving your boss a special holiday gift: a do-it-yourself ultra-custom business dashboard. After that we talk about all the hoopla surrounding the evolution of the notebook and how to make sense of it all for the SMB set. Listen!

Posted by Ted Samson on November 10, 2006 09:43 AM

November 03, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise: Generators and Small Biz Leasing

This episode we're talking about that one component to data centers that most guys seem to want to avoid: The generator. Then we talk about why more small businesses should think about leasing rather than just plunking down their hard-earned cash. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on November 3, 2006 11:03 AM

October 27, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise: DIY Dashboards and Evolutionary Notebook Stress

Posted by Oliver Rist on October 27, 2006 03:37 PM

October 20, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise: New IT Consulting Ideas and Pimping Your Notebook Part I and a Half

This episode we get into new ways that small biz tech consultants might reposition their services to take advantage of all this Web 2.0 hype rather than get frightened by it. Next we talk about pimping out your notebook with items that might be classed as luxuries rather than necessities. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on October 20, 2006 03:08 PM

October 13, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise: Linux in SMB and Vista Security

So my last mini-rev was SUSE 10 which brings us to a discussion of what you really use Linux for in SMB. After that, we get into the battle of words over Vista's security architecture and what it means to the SMB tech. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on October 13, 2006 12:04 PM

October 06, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise: Storage Wishlist & Laptop Theft

After our Sabio CM-4 review, I get to riff on what I'd really like to see in an SMB NAS and then we talk about how to protect your laptop data in the real world rather than security vendor fantasy land. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on October 6, 2006 02:15 PM

September 29, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise: Investigating and CAS

Back to regularly scheduled on-air imbibing. This week we're discussing what to do if you're faced with handling an internal investigation and then we talk about the next step up in file system organization: content addressed storage. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on September 29, 2006 11:52 AM

September 22, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise: REVving up Iomega and Web Office Suites

We're catching up with an extra episode this week, so the InfoWorld editors don't have me whacked. So we're talking about why I like REV drives so much and then I ruminate on Web-based prodcutivity tools. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on September 22, 2006 06:04 AM

September 21, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise: Interop and Remote Access

I'm talking from this week's Interop NYC show. First we talk about WAFS and where that standard really is and then we talk about hooking your near-remote sites together with more than just T1 lines. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on September 21, 2006 10:28 AM

September 01, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise: Amazon's Elastic and Microsoft's SBS Recall

I've got Paul Venezia doing this one with me, and we get into the impact that services like Amazon's Elastic rent-a-cluster might have on SMBs and then we riff on Microsoft's extremely rare software recall on Small Business Server 2003 R2. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on September 1, 2006 12:52 PM

August 21, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise: Compliance Today and Instant Messaging Worries

This time we get into whether compliance has any tangible impact on SMBs today and what to do about it. Then we talk about the biggest threat to SMBs next to email and MySpace: Instant Messaging. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on August 21, 2006 07:15 AM

August 11, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise: Net Docs and Hires

Why is hiring an IT staffer different for an SMB than a bigger enterprise? Listen and find out along with how to manage the process. After that we talk about why you want a network documentation book and the first steps to take in building one. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on August 11, 2006 02:02 PM

July 28, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise: Lawsuits and WiFi Phone Wishlists

This episode I delve not into **how** to protect yourself from employees or hackers running off with reams of customer data...but **why**. Then I can't help but riff on what I should have found on my WiFi VoIP phone but didn't. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on July 28, 2006 12:39 PM

July 21, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise Podcast

This week, we're talking about an important little desktop support feature that XP has but other OSes don't; and then we talk about tips for keeping telecommuting well managed on your network. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on July 21, 2006 09:32 AM

July 13, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise Podcast

And we're back after a slight absence. This episode we're talking about why SMBs should start thinking about all-out Voice over IP as well as a good way to protect your data from going mobile against your wishes. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on July 13, 2006 03:21 PM

June 20, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise Podcast

It's our first live interview. We get a chance to talk with Pradeep Parmar, Sun Microsystems' Product Line Marketing Manager for Sun's servers. We're talking about what Sun considers an SMB (get ready for the big company party line) and then go discuss buying advice for SMBs considering new server purchases. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on June 20, 2006 01:57 PM

June 09, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise Podcast

Vista Vista everywhere. And why upgrading your desktops might not be such a stupid idea after all. And then a rant on stopping the unsecured laptop madness. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on June 9, 2006 03:22 PM

May 30, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise Podcast

How do big technology companies define SMBs? And why don't I agree with them? That's part one. After that we talk about ClamWin Anti-Virus and why I'm so impressed with it. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on May 30, 2006 07:39 AM

May 18, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise Podcast

We're on a Web applications kick this episode, discussing the validity of social networking to the business set as well as what we'd like to see out of all these new "Web Office" application portals. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on May 18, 2006 07:38 AM

May 10, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise Podcast

This time we talk about what to expect when combining voice technology and CRM as well as what the real difference is between VoIP and IP telephony. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on May 10, 2006 12:03 PM

May 02, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise Podcast

My first ever interview with the GNOME desktop's chief spokes person: The Gnome Gnome. After the helium headache wears off, we also discuss the first-ever SMB IT Buyers' Guide on Internet Fax Service Providers--and why they can save SMB's big bucks and nasty headaches. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on May 2, 2006 12:09 PM

April 28, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise Podcast

This episode, we talk about why grid computing does apply to the SMB set and after that talk a little bit about Exchange management outsourcing options. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on April 28, 2006 11:31 AM

April 25, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise Podcast

This time we're talking about why wiring up a small office should still be about wires and electricians, and not necessarily wireless. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on April 25, 2006 01:28 PM

April 19, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise Podcast

This episode we dig talk about how to put a dent into spyware, malware and all the bad bits without resorting to dedicated software right away. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on April 19, 2006 03:03 PM

April 13, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise Podcast

This episode we dig a little deeper into small biz-style wireless security and I drop another useful SMB Web URL. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on April 13, 2006 08:59 AM

April 11, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise Podcast

This episode we talk about what makes Centrino a worthwhile investment when buying notebooks and I get to rant a bit on the whole Microsoft rootkit stance. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on April 11, 2006 11:41 AM

April 06, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Emerging Enterprise Podcast

Check out the first in our new Emerging Enterprise podcast series. What's new and interesting in SMB technology in five minutes of scintillating audio starring your SMB IT blog geek, senior contributing editor Oliver Rist.

This episode, we go digging into a great SMB legal resource, namely the MyTechnologyLawyer.com Web site and then we discuss why SSL VPNs can make your remote access life both easier and cheaper. Listen!

Posted by Oliver Rist on April 6, 2006 10:10 PM

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