One of the greatest challenges a small growing company will face in improving their technology will be the getting a healthy perspective on how to invest in technology. When we started our company we got by on used stuff. Our firs sever was purchased of ebay. our second server was an obnoxiously loud home made server. These served us well right up to the time we had several employees counting on our infrastructure every day. Then when they went down it was more costly because more people were counting on it to do their jobs. Not to mention our billing needed to happen weekly if not daily in order to keep the cash flowing.
Is there a middle ground between used stuff and way to expensive stuff? I'm happy to report there is. Like most other business problems there are strategic ways of dealing with each element of technology for a business. The areas I see that most often need a attention while a business grows are the following for infrastructure. 1.File storage. 2. Email 3.firewall. 4. Phone system.
I'm going to break each one of these down in future blogs. These are elements I see over and over. it seems that in 10 years nothing has changed. I mean the solutions have changed but the problems have not. The great news is that there are better and better solutions and the cost of maintaining them is decreasing as well.
Thanks for reading ~pz
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