How do you solve a problem like Maria? The last twenty five years of office strategy have given us a similar problem. How do we solve a problem like a server?
The Sound of Music gave us Eidelweiss; a lilting lullaby which eased the fear of a generation in war torn Europe. The lullaby of a whirring servers has lolled many a young office worker to sleep. Quite often a change in tempo and pitch has made many more finance departments run for the Purchase Order book. The changed noises coming from your server usually meant problems and they always meant money.
So, how do we rid ourselves of this problem. It is as simple as deciding to get rid of the server. First and foremost you have to decide why do you have a server in the first place. Usually it is to back up documents and hold the email.
There are lots of cheaper options to store your documents than a server that costs €5,000 to replace every three to five years. Then there is the whole problem around what happens when the server crashes and you have to work out where the backups were backed up. Don’t forget that the tax man says you need to keep records for six years.
As for email, most locally based server solutions are a stumbling block when it comes to doing business. How can you show the love to a customer if you have to get back to HQ in order to get your email? The cost of retro fitting email push solutions is a case of throwing good money after bad and that’s before we even mention that it is simply not reliable.
Google Apps and Office365 both give you email on the move seamlessly. There is a whole lot more going on there too, but let’s keep focused. What you want is access to your email and documents when you need them and the cloud delivers that to you. What you like is a reduced cost and the cloud definitely delivers on that too.
Get rid of the hassle, get rid of the server.
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