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Should You Virtualize Your Employee's Computers To Make Fixing Them Easier?

By Dan Baldwin, Editor
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When was the last time you pulled big bags of gold out of your company safe so you could count up all your retained business profit from last year?

Probably never, right? Why would you keep business profits in the form of gold bullion on your business property? 

And even if last year's profit was in bullion someplace you probably wouldn't need to have it physically counted again to make sure none of it disappeared. The amount of your last year's profit is written as a number someplace that you can look up and see on a computer.

But what if there was only one computer in your business that could give you access to last year's business profit? And what if all of last year's profit would instantly and permanently disappear if that one computer was lost or stolen?

A silly question, right? You can easily access your businesses bank balances from almost any computer, tablet or smartphone in a secure manner.

But can you do the same thing for any or all of the rest of y0ur critical business data and applications?

I bet your IT guy wishes you could.

 

Securely Virtualizing Company Computers Saves You Money Many Ways

How is remotely accessing your firm's business banking information in the example above any different  from remotely accessing any of your firm's other information on some sort of virtual computer or secure communications device.

It's really not. If you can move your firm's money from one bank account to another using a secure application on a smartphone you should trust that the same thing can be done with all of your firm's other critical business information and electronic assets.

For a primer on how virtualizing company computers can begin to save your company money, check out the following video produced by Microsoft. 

If your company is suffering in the IT support arena then computer virtualization is a hot need that can save you hard cash money  today and deliver soft savings from improved employee productivity in the near future.

 

Should Your Business Start a Virtualization Trial This Quarter?

Give us a call at 714-525-8100.  In just a 45-minute phone call we can explore where your business is at with regard to IT resources as well as where you need to get to this year in order to achieve your technology delivered business goals.

We can also share with you the success stories our other customers have had when we've introduced them to trusted and vetted technology solution partners that we work with like VMware and similar other vendors.

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Keywords: VMware, MicroSoft, virtualization, computer, critical business application, retained business profit, secure communications device, smartphone, secure application, 

Do You Need an Ethernet Over Fixed Wireless Quote to Guarantee Redundancy? (Yes!)

By Dan Baldwin 

Mobile phones give all of us a sense of security. I check to make sure my cell phone is charged and in my pocket before going anywhere in my car. In my home and office my cell phone sits right next to my office phone. Why? I can count on it to work if there's a problem with my landline.

The way wireless technology backs up our personal communications is also available to backup our voice and data network communications. How will your multiple offices stay connected if your primary broadband Internet connection experiences a service interruption - for minutes or days? What "bad things" will happen to your business during that outage?

If you're using a fixed wireless connection as your primary or backup data connection for your business you don't worry about "bad things" happening to your business during an outage because "fixed wireless" offers the ultimate in voice and data redundancy to your "landline" connections.

 

What's "fixed wireless"?

Fixed wireless is a broadband Internet connection that uses a completely redundant and survivable "second path" to connect your business to the outside world.

It connects via a direct "line of sight" microwave path from a dish on the top of your building, through the air to another dish several miles away that connects you to a really big Ethernet Internet pipe. When the landline that enters your building through the basement is interrupted for any reason you always have the second "fixed wireless" connection to use that goes through the air. 

 

Is Fixed Wireless Expensive?

In most cases, bit for bit, fixed wireless connectivity is cheaper than a similar landline connection. In addition to being cheaper the connection is generally more reliable because it doesn't go through the local phone company's "local loop".  As well, fixed wireless can be installed in just a couple days and the bandwidth can be "dialed up and down" with a phone call.