Organizations face a never-ending challenge: Deliver uninterrupted and secure access to vital applications and information in a world that sees platforms, applications and devices constantly changing.

Servers are the heart of the network. However, there is nothing mysterious about them for they are merely beefed up PCs that distribute data among several PCs. The two biggest requirements with a server is its need to be running 24/7 and protection of data.

Every one of our servers, whether it is an HP/Compaq, IBM, Dell or Clone comes with some kind of fault tolerance from simple software mirroring to hardware RAID 5.

We are now almost entirely a Microsoft NT/Windows 2000 shop, though we have configured some Novell and Linux servers in the past.
Microsoft’s appeal to small businesses with their server software is due to the software’s amazing combination of versatility, reliability and ease of use.

We have seen too many times where clients think they need to spend a small fortune for a server. We educate them by pointing out that the server acts more like a traffic cop than a weight lifter. We are big believers of distributed processing, for it is better to have several smaller servers doing specialized functions that one big server doing everything. When problems happen, it is better that they affect one certain area of operations rather than the entire network.