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Hurricane Proof Computing?

By: James Tall, Wed Dec 7th, 2005 10:54:38 PM

Local Computer Company Provides Hurricane Proof Computing

More and more companies rely on their computers for scheduling, customer communications and financial operations. So how does a business function when a hurricane knocks the power out for several days. "If the businesses servers are hosted with us they don't need to worry." That's the word from ON-SITE Hosted Services President Eric Miller.

"Every one of our clients that was with out power was still able to remain operational even during the worst part of the storm". How is this possible? Here is how. ON-SITE provides hosted servers that are secured in a CAT 5 rated facility with fail over power and internet access. The company provides all of the workstations, server software and support required for a business to function. Companies like Tower Consultants of Stuart, Florida who have offices in Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Florida were able to maintain operations before, during and after the storm. "Even our customers that only have one location and are located in the hurricane affected area were still able to remain operational." A Law firm who subscribes to the services provided by ON-SITE was able to continue operations by distributing their workers to homes in the area that had power and internet access. All of the workers were able to log into the company's hosted server and continue to perform their daily work functions. Once power was restored to their offices they were able to log into the same server and resume work on the same information without a hitch.

"We were able to transition several companies that were completely decimated by Wilma to our servers and had them up and running within 24 to 36 hours." Disaster recovery and preparedness are only one of the benefits that are received from the product offering from ON-SITE. Several other benefits include fixed technology budgets, reliability, state of the art collaboration, and improved functionality.

The concept of remote computing is not new. What is new is having a skilled technology company provide a small or medium size business with all of the tools they need to operate like a large corporation. ON-SITE provides all of the hardware software and services required to bring a small business into the world of high end computing. "In the past a small business owner would have to spend tens of thousands of dollars to obtain the same level of operational ability. We can do the same without the owner having to buy or ever having to upgrade another piece of hardware or base software again." ON-SITE guarantees future upgrades and only charges a per user fee for the use of their services and hosted infrastructure. "This is seen as a growing trend among large corporations that want fail over redundancy. Now it is affordable and available to the small and medium business owner as well." Information is available by emailing support@oscomputers.net.

About the author: James Tall is Lead Engineer for On Site Computer Centers on the Treasure Coast of Florida. He can be contacted at james.tall@oscomputers.net

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