Making the right decisions for your business is critical for the future. Making the right decisions on technology solutions for your business are no different. Technology is often the very infrastructure that supports your business not just a tool.

So why would you go to a salesman for advice?

When looking at technology products over the last decade you see many big name products from vendors that fit a major need at the right time. VMware is a great example of hitting the market with a product that fit a big need, consolidation and slowing down server sprawl, at the right time. They were not the first to have virtualization, which can be traced back decades. However they were in the right place and the right time.

I was reading a white paper about “when is it time for your business to get its first server?”

Now do not get me wrong there are very valid reasons to get a first server for even the smallest of businesses. Microsoft’s Small Business Server (SBS)  and a number of open source alternatives generally setup fairly easily and provide sharing, communication (email, instant messaging), database, etc.