Article for the South Florida ALA
The South Florida Chapter of the Assoication of Legal Administrators (ALA) asked DedicatedIT to pen an article for their October 2009 Newsletter. You can download just the text here.
We touched on two of the biggest trends in the IT industry right now: Cloud Computing and Managed Services.
Here is an excerpt:
What does cloud computing mean to your firm?
Imagine walking into your firm tomorrow and being able to reclaim the space that those noisy, pain in the ass servers and networking equipment take up. Never needing to hire an IT company to come out and perform maintenance on your servers again. No need to pay for the electricity to RUN those servers. No need to beef up your air conditioning systems to keep all those delicate machines happy. Never having to pay Microsoft for their latest email server ever again. And, very likely, having better performance and fewer problems. That is what cloud computing promises.
Cloud computing is sold very much like electricity from your power company – you pay for only what you use and you really don’t care how many power poles, transformers, generation plants and linemen they have to use to get you your power. You just want it to work when you turn on the light switch.
Download just the DedicatedIT technology portion of the article.
What do managed services bring to your firm?
You’ll have a technology partner watching over your network and doing what is best for your company. Many of the little annoying problems that your employees have can be fixed without you watching the bill-o-meter clicking away time and material dollars. Your managed service partner will fix the little problems before they become big ones that can put you out of business for hours or days. You’ll have a team of people ready, willing and able to respond within an hour if there is a problem. Many times, with managed services providers, these features come at no additional charge.
