Remote Office Tech Tips

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Revision as of 19:15, 9 March 2015

Remote Office Tech Tip Educational Videos

StorMagic commissioned this educational video series, focused on the challenges and decision making process for remote office IT. Videos can also be seen on
StorMagic's Remote Office Tech Tip Channel.

Optimizing Branch Office and Remote Office IT Wikibon contributor, John McArthur, talks about the importance of branch offices and the challenges of branch office IT support.
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Conducting an Application Inventory The first step in branch-office IT consolidation and efficiency is conducting an application inventory.
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Branch Office Infrastructure Consolidation Once the remote office application inventory is complete, CIO's can begin to look at ways to reduce cost and consolidate infrastructure.
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Requirements for High Availability Not every application requires high availability. And for the ones that do, it still has to be affordable.
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How To Deliver High-Availability Applications Virtualization and shared storage are key components for high availability. They also enable non-disruptive software and maintenance.
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Action Item: Remote Office IT presents a unique set of challenges for CIOs. Like data center IT, availability, serviceability and efficiency are key requirements. Unlike data centers, however, on-premises IT staff are limited. Solutions designed for small businesses often lack the remote-deployment and remote management capabilities of solutions designed for large-enterprise branch offices. CIOs considering a branch office refresh should pay special attention to recently introduced technologies that enable centralized deployment, centralized management, and lean remote-office IT.

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