If you’re running a small or medium-sized business, you’ve quite likely had painful experiences in the past trying to run your critical workloads on hardware that – according to the marketing – ought to be ideal for a company of your size. The unfortunate truth is that many devices are designed to hit a price that appeals to small organisations on tight budgets, rather than to address their real needs.
There are two ways to avoid getting bitten in this way. One is to turn to the cloud – something we’ve discussed at great length for many years, and will continue to discuss for the foreseeable future. But let’s look at the other option: to raise your sights, loosen the purse strings and move up to serious, enterprise-grade hardware.
The first question, however, is this: what does “enterprise” actually mean? If you’re a CEO of a certain age, the word may immediately make you think of Shatner and Nimoy, with connotations of starship-level, military-grade reliability. But in a down-to-earth business, enterprise is really just
