Analysis: How to choose servers for SMEs

In the current harsh market environment, a mature and intelligent IT information system can help enterprises achieve business efficiency, their own stable development, improve the company's competitive strength, and ensure that enterprises resist the crisis. risk. How to choose the IT infrastructure that suits you has become an important issue for current SME leaders.

In the choice of key equipment servers, SMEs need to pay more attention. As the enterprise core computing device, the server runs the main business applications of SMEs. Therefore, any problems or failures will bring serious consequences for the business suspension. Therefore, SMEs need to choose server products and related IT systems that are suitable for enterprise application needs from multiple perspectives.

Choosing a Trustworthy Partner

A SME manager complained: "There are a lot of server brands and types in the market, but I don't know how to choose. I don't want to overdo it. Buying leads to waste, and I don't want to influence performance because of insufficient purchase. Who can give me appropriate advice? What is the best way to choose a server?”

In fact, SMEs are choosing products such as servers. I am usually faced with similar confusion. Because they lack professional background and knowledge, they will not choose the most suitable products and solutions according to their own business conditions. If they do not combine the business characteristics and future development trends of the company, blindly purchasing products will easily lead to waste or insufficient performance.

SMEs have strong growth potential. They must choose a set of IT systems that can dynamically adapt to the business development of the enterprise. They can adjust and cooperate with the business changes of the enterprise to protect the investment interests. This requires SMEs to choose trusted partners.

For example, as a leader in the IT field, HP ProLiant servers have ranked first in the global market for more than 13 years, with sales exceeding 17.9 million units. At the same time, HP combines years of technology accumulation with domestic SMEs. The successful experience of user applications has put forward the strategy of “full-time assistance” for SMEs, starting from the initial “choice” period, and giving care to science and technology and humanities in different important aspects such as “use”, “protection” and “transition”. Give SME users a full range of help.

Moreover, the HP ProLiant server family not only has strong scalability and proven reliability, but also passes rigorous quality testing and ensures that IT infrastructure can grow with the business. Expand together. All servers cover HP's full range of services, including services, software, support and protection, and SMBs can get all of these benefits at an economical price.

At the same time, HP is also very concerned about the various training for dealer partners, in order to provide users with a high level of programs and services. For example, HP launched the “Excellent Channel Strategy” last year to provide HP’s channel partners with thoughtful consultants for SME users by providing training, certification and certification for technology, products, solutions, sales techniques and management to channel partners across the country. Consulting services and the most suitable solutions.

Choosing the right product for you

When SMEs are building IT information systems, because they have different applications, they will need different grades of products to match them. The situation of a car or a small horse-drawn carriage appears. However, many SME users tend to pay too much attention to the price of the product hardware when purchasing products, ignoring whether the selected brand has enough products. The unfortunate result of this is that when the company's future business changes, it finds that there are no rich products to choose from, and it is not allowed to contact other brands, and then familiar with a strange brand technology from the beginning, adding a lot of unnecessary troubles and costs.

Therefore, when selecting products for SMEs, you must select those manufacturers with complete product lines and rich product types. This makes it easy to choose the server device that suits you best according to the business.

At present, HP has the most complete server product line in the industry, which can provide corresponding products according to the different stages of SME users from small to large. These products not only have excellent performance, but also have a wide range of product features to meet the needs of different types of users.

For example, the entry-level ProLiant ML110 G6 server, with the Intel Xeon X3400 series processor, is priced at the same price as a desktop PC. It is truly stable, reliable and secure, making it ideal for workgroups. The basic platform, which implements file server, SME application hosting, shared web access and other applications; ProLiant ML150 G6 server (using Intel Xeon processor E5500 series) is tailor-made for SMEs, especially suitable for SME file storage, Basic applications such as printing. The product's scalability and availability delivers business growth and delivers outstanding data encryption for peace of mind customers who care about data. And its unattended remote management capabilities help SMBs monitor server health and respond in a timely manner when events occur, making them ideal for SMB applications.

In the mid- to high-end products, the ProLiant ML330 G6 series servers feature the new Intel Xeon E5500 series processors, I/O serial performance and DDR3 memory technology for high scalability, security and advanced remote management. And fault tolerance and other functions. It is worth noting that the extended performance of this product allows SME users to pay the corresponding fees for the performance and capacity that are needed now, saving prepaid expenses. In the future, enterprises only need to increase the required processing and memory functions when they need to expand. The HP ProLiant DL360 G6 features Intel Xeon 5500 series processors supporting up to eight 2.5-inch hard drives, which computes high-density, easy-to-manage, and virtually intensively deployed machine room environments; ProLiant DL380 G6 uses the latest Intel Xeon 5500 series With outstanding performance and manageability, it provides more convenient and intelligent software for enterprise management applications, and is industry-leading in performance; ProLiant DL580 series uses Intel Xeon E7000 series processors With the industry's most advanced server management technology, lower total cost of ownership, high performance and scalability, and super-virtualized application features, it is suitable for business-critical applications for medium and large enterprises.

Choosing a convenient way to get it

Many small and medium-sized enterprises have weak IT technology and demand for services. For SMEs, the combination of manufacturers and channels is a more appropriate method - you can get a lot of professional consulting and product selection through the manufacturers, but also through the nearest dealer to buy the corresponding products and some After sales service. The need for SMEs to pay attention to this is that it is very important to choose direct, convenient and safe access. It is best to contact the manufacturer directly or select a manufacturer-certified distributor to provide products and services.

As a professional SME product and service provider, HP offers a variety of convenient ways to help users get free professional consultation and product selection during the selection phase. For example, you can call the HP server pre-sales hotline (800-820-0921) or you can go to the HP server network (www.hp.com.cn/ISS): through the network consultation mailbox, online instant consultation, online selection recommendation If you get HP's technical help, you can also easily find the nearest hp dealer contact information and cooperate through the HP server website.

In order to ensure that SMEs can enjoy standard and professional consulting and services, HP also continuously strengthens training and certification for channel distributors. For example, HP not only deploys professional technicians in more than 40 cities across the country, provides localized support for local channel distributors, provides support services for channel dealers and users, and continuously improves the technical capabilities and service customers of local distributors. Experience the same technical service capabilities as the original factory at the dealership.

Summary

How to choose an IT infrastructure is a problem for SMEs, but it can be said to be easy. The difficulty lies in that SMEs will lose their skills and solutions between different technologies and solutions, and they will not get the most suitable solutions and services. The easy part is that SME users can find products that suit them. New technologies, and working with trusted partners, using the new technologies and proven solutions and products and services offered by the latter will achieve better results with less effort.