Why a server-based network?

If your company is still on a client-based (a.k.a. "peer-to-peer") network, here is what you could gain by converting to a server-based network:

• Centralized security allows you to control each worker's access to network resources.  No longer will someone be able to sit down at the company president's desk and have it auto-login (no password). 
• Data resides in one central location, for efficient collaboration among workers.  Everyone can work directly on the same files, rather than working locally and e-mailing different versions around.
• Centralized data storage allows for centralized backup.  You can run one backup job, and know that your entire company's files are all there.
• Remote access capability allows employees, business partners and customers to access their important data securely, from almost anywhere.

   

Why buy a Real Server based on Intel Xeon processors?

The word "server" is thrown about and used to often to only describe a computer's function.  That's unfortunate, as the duty that a server performs requires a completely different set of hardware. 

There was a time when buying a server was an automatic $3,000-plus expenditure, but those days are over.  In addition to Intel's Xeon 5000-based, dual-processor servers, we also build servers based on the less-expensive, single-processor servers with Intel's Xeon 3000-series processors.  In fact, an Intel Xeon 3000-based server is typically within a couple hundred dollars of the price of a high-end desktop configuration that many people mistakenly put into duty as a server.

Here are some differences, including the step up to the Xeon 5000-level hardware.