[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS. Size indeed matters not.] Justifying the best solution - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS DIVA
Sun, Apr 15 2012 23:13 bradley

Justifying the best solution

You know what's sad?  I've heard of several consultants say that they are having to justify to their clients the solutions they are providing to them.  Even if the client has a slow DSL, has a big fat thick client requirement that the marketing of the cloud, the overwhelming "You are dumb to be having an on premise solution" is impacting perceptions of customers.  Even if an on premise solution is the best solution, consultants are starting to have to justify this.

Cloud solutions are v1.  (seriously even if Office 365 is the second cloud version for Microsoft).  They still need a lot of work.  See this for a good write up on where they need work:  http://redmondmag.com/articles/2012/04/01/3-reasons-office-365-could-ultimately-fail.aspx

But obviously that need for large firms to have monthly revenue streams means that they are putting their marketing dollars behind it and it's having an impact.

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# re: Justifying the best solution

Monday, April 16, 2012 8:43 AM by Pete P

I had a customer loose power for 24 hours last summer.  Yes I had a UPS on their SBS server that lasted about 90 minutes but the experience had them totally freaked out and now they want the cloud.  Just another justification IT consultants have to contend with.

# re: Justifying the best solution

Monday, April 16, 2012 3:09 PM by Joe Raby

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# LOL @ Me

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 4:49 PM by Joe Raby

Dang - my link went for sh*t.

Cloud computing at its finest folks LOL!

# re: Justifying the best solution

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:19 AM by Oliver Sommer

Hey Pete,

and how excatly would they use the cloud without power?

# @Oliver

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 7:59 PM by Joe Raby

I dunno about you, but even though we have battery backups for our cable modem and all networking hardware, it doesn't matter - when the power goes out, the cable ops connection goes dead.  It doesn't lose sync as far as the modem is concerned, but the ISP's external DNS just plain quits.

Not only that, but around here the DSL lines are not much better.  The equipment that the ops use is pretty bad.  Even if there's a downtown outage, when the power comes back on, the cable and DSL modems never seem to handle a power-on very well, as I get at least a dozen phone calls from businesses saying that their modem/router/switch went dead during the outage, but they just need to do a soft reset to get it to work again.  Dunno why, since the hardware comes back on with the power anyway, but it just. doesn't. work. right.