Technology Advice for Small Businesses

Questions to consider before replacing your servers

When it comes to replacing your company’s servers, you should review aspects of your existing server infrastructure and consider the implications of the upgrade. Answering questions related to reliability, performance, security, and scalability will allow you to make the right decisions and ensure the upgrade aligns with your company’s long-term goals. What is the condition… Continue reading Questions to consider before replacing your servers

Server overhaul: What to ask yourself before replacing your infrastructure

Replacing servers requires careful planning and consideration. It is important to ask yourself the right questions, such as the current state of your servers, your business needs, and how much you’re willing to invest in new hardware. By addressing these questions, you can avoid potential pitfalls and set yourself up for a successful server upgrade.… Continue reading Server overhaul: What to ask yourself before replacing your infrastructure

Is it time to upgrade? Key considerations before replacing your servers

Before you think about purchasing new servers, ask yourself some crucial questions that can help you make informed decisions, minimize risks, and maximize the benefits of the upgrade. By carefully evaluating factors such as performance requirements, scalability, budget constraints, and future business needs, you can ensure a smooth transition to new server infrastructure. What is… Continue reading Is it time to upgrade? Key considerations before replacing your servers

Licensing issues with virtualization

Software developers make a profit by selling us the best product they can create. When selling pieces of their software in bulk, they offer licensing packages to businesses so you don’t have to buy 100 copies of the same CD. Now that an increasing amount of services and tools are moving into the cloud, it’s… Continue reading Licensing issues with virtualization

Virtualization and licensing

For a successful virtualization project, it’s important to understand software licensing and support policies for virtualized and cloud environments. Today, many enterprises invest in software to track licensing compliance and vendor support policies because policies could differ substantially among vendors. For most, licensing concerns focused on deploying server applications to server virtualization infrastructures. Here are… Continue reading Virtualization and licensing

Software challenges for virtual environments

Since the very first software release, software licensing was already considered a challenge. In the past, many software licensing models were based on concurrent connections or number of installations. Today, virtualization and multicore CPUs add a new level of complexity, making it more difficult to track costs and how many licenses you’ll need. Let’s take… Continue reading Software challenges for virtual environments

Virtualization security risks & management

While virtualization security is often viewed as an afterthought, it is nevertheless important. Like all technology, securing your virtualized infrastructure is vital to your business’s success. Let’s take a look at some of the security risks posed by virtualization and how you can manage them. Security risks of virtualization Complex infrastructure – Much like virtualization… Continue reading Virtualization security risks & management

Controlling security risks of virtualization

Virtualization security often ends up on the back burner, and you probably didn’t even realize how important it is. However, like the rest of your technology, a virtualized infrastructure must be secured. To help keep yours protected, here are some of the security risks involved with virtualization and ways to control them. Security risks of… Continue reading Controlling security risks of virtualization

Ways to handle virtualization security risks

Online blogs and forums mostly cover networks and the cloud when it comes to cybersecurity, leaving other types of technology — particularly virtualization — overlooked and unsecured. If you don’t have the right defense plans in place, your business will be vulnerable to all types of cyberthreats. Here are some of the major risks of… Continue reading Ways to handle virtualization security risks

A guide to virtualization and licensing

Software licensing has been a thorn in everybody’s side for as long as we can remember. It’s no surprise that as software begins to help us to consolidate and combine pieces of hardware through virtualization, we’re confronted with this problem yet again. SMBs are often unfortunate victims of licensing models that favor individual or enterprise… Continue reading A guide to virtualization and licensing