Bluehost offers reliable web hosting plans, unlimited space and unllimited email accounts and storage for a reasonable fee.

Buffalo makes a cost-effective series of network attached storage (NAS) devices that can serve as primary or backup storage. Roughly competing with much higher priced NAS solutions such as NetApp, Buffalo's TeraStation line offers an affordable alternative to smaller companies while still offering RAID 5 fault tolerance and low-cost SATA disks.

Backup Exec by Symantec is more or less, the industry standard for backup software. The current version accommodates both tape and disk-based backup and restore, as well as continuous protection and disaster recovery modes. Other products such as CA Brightstor (also called ArcServe) and Novastor offer similar features.

HP's line of servers (formerly called Compaq) make an outstanding choice for small and medium businesses. Although other manufacturers such as Dell have come very close at competitive price points, HP is still the professional network administrators' choice for reliability, range of features and unparalleled support.

Microsoft Exchange is the most widely used email server platform for small and medium businesses who have standardized on the Microsoft platform. While not the lowest cost solution on the market, Exchange offers an attractive range of functions (e.g. synchronization with iPhone & Blackberry) and an integrated, easy to manage and secure platform that would be difficult to find in competing products for the Windows platform.

Websense Email Filter (formerly called SurfControl) is an excellent product which combines email threat and spam filtering functions. The product is very easy to configure and quietly works in the background eliminating 99.9% of spam and potentially harmful email-based threats. We highly recommend this product.