My company has QuickBooks, GoldMine CRM and a custom SQL database, all together taking up more than 100GB of disk space. But we need to connect to our databases to do our work. And the more I read the more questions I have.įor example, I understand the benefits of a virtual workspace (our managed services provider uses Microsoft’s Remote Desktop). Experienced business people raise their antennas when they hear something that is likely too good to be true. You can pay as you go, integrate Active Directory and there’s support for multiple devices. It’s secure (well….as secure as Amazon can be) and promises a better uptime than you’re probably getting from your own remote desktop server sitting near the copy machine. The cost seems low, particularly for a fully managed desktop environment. The pros make the case pretty compelling for a small business. I need to do this because my company is completely virtual. I’m paying about $90 per user right now for my managed desktop service. I use a managed service provider to host my 10 person company’s applications. ![]() “You can access this at half the price of a typical infrastructure desktop solution.”Īnd you know what? He’s right. And the cost? $35 per month per user for 50GB of space! “No hardware, no software, no long-term commitments,” said Andy Jassy, the head of AWS. And a huge step towards (finally) dismantling our internal technology infrastructure.ĪWS announced WorkSpaces – a virtual desktop offering that will now enable companies, big and small, to migrate their existing applications to Amazon’s servers so that their people can do their work from any device, PC, Mac or tablet, wherever they are. This is how it’s been.Īt least until this past week when Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a new service that brings us all closer to what we want: an inexpensive service for managing all of our applications online. ![]() This is why many of my own clients that are this size have chosen to replace their one or two internal servers for the time being…until the costs come down. For a 50 person company that’s almost $5K a month. And when all the smoke clears we’re at between $80-$100 per month per user. And I ask about the cost to move multiple systems, databases and applications to their servers and have it managed remotely. But then I ask them about the cost to license Microsoft Office or Exchange (and yes there are great alternatives to those applications but hundreds of millions of users are still happily using them and don’t want to change). Sure, they always start with lower numbers. I’ve talked to dozens of managed service providers.
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