Managed Computer Services

Dell recommends three levels of solutions to move small businesses to virtualization. These offerings demonstrate that on site virtualization comes at a cost. However, expect excellent performance gains and real disaster recovery-ability once your systems are virtualized.

Considering the apparent cost of Dell’s virtualization and the current state of the economy, cloud services, built around the same Windows Servers, Citrix and VMware look pretty good. Dell’s three levels of solutions can help move small businesses to virtualization or they might be three reasons to move to the cloud. You do the ROI.

Many cloud offerings require no capital investment and no commitment other than a monthly expensed amount. Contact us so that we can migrate your systems to the cloud or to Dell’s virtualization solutions.

You might ask, “Are all servers moving to the data center?” Unfortunately, no. As long as there is multi user software designed over ten years ago that moves monumental amounts of data between the client and server components of the application, we will have local servers, especially when those applications are owned by companies that slowly innovate their software architecture while milking a cash cow.

To this day, some of the earlier C++ client, SQL server applications cannot run in Microsoft Terminal Services. It is common practice to find heavier client software unmanageable in an environment that would put it in the data center. Expect this situation to stay around for some time. Just recently, we heard from a software company that not only was unversed in Windows 7, but also knew very little about Vista. They firmly insisted that we look at rolling back to XP and use a Microsoft Server 2003 to host the “database”. We’re less than two months from January 2010!

You need fast feet to compete. However, occasionally your software dictates the shoes you must wear. So, the last server you will ever need is the one you retire with your outdated software. The time will come.