Meeting your business demands

Today’s modern small and medium-sized businesses need more processing and server capability than ever before. From routine applications like e-mail and websites and business applications that support payroll and accounting features, to mission-critical applications like e-commerce transaction processing or proprietary databases, SMBs struggle to keep up with the demand for processing cycles.

Recent growth in system consolidation and virtualisation has increased the importance of high availability and scalability in technical infrastructure design.

Designing high availability and scalability into technical infrastructure and application deployments has become important to the success of many businesses.

In addition to making sure business critical applications are always available, enterprises need assurance that the architecture is designed in such a way that system capacity can be increased or decreased according to business needs.

“Planning a scalable server infrastructure can be the key to keeping up with such demands,” says Curt Gauci, director and co-founder of Kinetix IT Solutions, a local leading IT systems integrator. Kinetix is HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Kerio, Trend Micro and Symantec certified partner.

“A scalable system is one whose performance increases or decreases after hardware is added or removed somewhat proportionally to the capacity added or removed.

“By creating a carefully crafted collection of servers organised by role and designed to expand as demand increases, SMBs can control costs and provide the necessary processing capability. Better still, SMBs can confidently accommodate growth in processing needs and capabilities because their server architecture can easily keep pace with demand. This type of scalable solution offers a flexible way of providing enhanced processing capabilities and services as your company expands.

“To ensure that a server infrastructure meets your company’s needs and fits your budget, devote some time and energy to assessing your needs and planning a comprehensive solution.

“When looking at creating a scalable server architecture that can meet your current demands and accommodate large-scale growth if necessary, it is essential to examine the term scalability and understand what it means within an individual system and within an entire server architecture. It is also essential to evaluate your current and future server needs to find ways to improve their infrastructure and make it more expandable.

“Until you understand what kind of servers you need, and how you want to use them, you run the risk of implementing an underpowered solution or of spending more money on hardware and equipment than you really need.”