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Infrastructure Planning and Review:

As businesses grow, they’re computing needs will change over time.  Without direction, it is possible to have to many of the wrong computers or to few of the right ones.  What does this mean?  Well, when a business first started up, you might need a mail server and quickbooks server for the business back end.  Next, you add a web server just to advertise.  Next, you add some e-commerce items to the web.  Staff increases and new versions of quickbooks and exchange come out.  Did you upgrade your hardware to grow with the increased business and staffing?  Do you now have an inventory control system and point of sale?  Are they on shared hardware or each on a dedicated server?  Would you be better served with two single large servers housing each application with a backup acting as a failover server?  Do you host your own web server or do you use a hosting site?  What is your connectivity like?  Each piece of software typically comes with recommendations of the hardware it should have to perform at an adequate level.  Often times though, if you mix software, you can run into performance issues.  A review of existing environment should take place whenever you are planning a business expansion, hiring spurt or hardware and software upgrades.  Time, money and economy of scale can help assure you are getting the most out of your available resources.