Neely Loring

Happy New Year!  It appears 2010 is beginning in earnest and business owners are realizing it is time to invest in technologies that will make them more efficient, enhance their customer relationships and keep their data secure.  As a result, Matrix is seeing a flourish of activity.

We have defined 3 areas that represent a relatively low-cost way to make technology work better with a very fast return on investment. 

1.  Outsource, outsource, outsource 

If you make and sell widgets for your livelihood, why would you want to be in the business of managing and supporting a computer network?  Finding a good managed services provider to assume care and custody of your information systems is the single largest way to reduce your total cost of ownership of all things IT.  If you want to know why, give me a call. 

2.  Sell your servers 

Managed service providers are revolutionizing the industry with “HAAS”, or “hardware as a service”.  Simply put, an MSP buys your servers and rents them back to you as part of the bundle of services they provide. 

What this means to you is no more coming out of pocket with large sums of cash for replacements.  Many times the MSP can provide associated software on a “rental” basis as well.  The Fortune 1000 crowd has been leveraging this idea for years because of the positive impact to cash and cost. 

3.  Join the virtual movement 

The propeller-heads have figured out how to chop a physical server up so it can run many server operating systems simultaneously.  This technology has provide the ability to greatly enhance reliability, prepare for the possibility of disaster, reduce power and floor space needs while, at the same time, significantly reducing cost.  Come by our datacenter and we’ll show you how we’re using virtualization and how you can apply it to your business needs.

From the Matrix family to your business family, best wishes for a safe, fun and profitable 2010!

Neely Loring, President