Here are the top 5 technologies that have had the biggest impact on businesses I have dealt with in 2008. Each has helped establish an environment that now delivers optimized PC performance and seamless integration of services. These technologies help provide a coordinated approach to workflow management, while embracing new innovations at a time when technology is improving at a rapid rate. They become even more important developments when we consider global and political pressures being applied in today's world, such as energy conservation, material shortages, and credit crunch bailouts – all of which make optimization of technology and resources of paramount importance.
A couple of months ago, I provided business analysis and desktop appraisal for a financial institution when the IT Director gave me license to ‘go green’. Being familiar with the logistics of the site and personnel employed within the company, I knew they could benefit from a couple of 'green' computer options so this was the correct environment in which to implement such a computer strategy. What transpired was the successful roll-out of over eight hundred new HP Compaq dc7800 desktops.
Innovative, functional and practical in equal measure, the ultra slim dc7800 is a brilliant little desktop. It is energy efficient and takes up minimal space. For such an innocent little unit, it also packs a considerable punch.
Where other compact desktop models fail to deliver adequate processor power, memory and/or additional components, the HP Compaq dc7800 PC is a feature-rich desktop that offers everything a standard desktop user could need, and all at a very reasonable price. It makes a lot of business sense for any rollout, large or small, particularly where desk space is at a premium.
With the introduction of multi-core versions of Intel and AMD processors, and a growing necessity to run a mixed bag of 32 and 64 bit machines, Microsoft launched Windows Server 2008 in February of this year. Implemented as the benchmark server architecture across several sites I work with, Windows Server 2008 is a considerable upgrade from Windows Server 2003, its previous iteration.
With a modified server management console and a Windows Vista kernel, Server 2008 makes implementation, configuration, and administration of server builds easier than before, with minimal installation or migration training required for those coming over from any legacy Windows Server infrastructure. The Internet Information Server 7 component offers a slick web presence, and 2008’s integrated virtualization technology has been embedded into the OS to enable, amongst other things, quicker processing of tasks across multiple locations.
With impressive features such as an enhanced set of administration controls, a clean and impressive Server Manager ‘switchboard’, IPv6 and SMB 2.0, Windows Server 2008 is vastly improved. Crucially, it can be installed seamlessly onto most platforms and handles server administration with much greater automation than previous versions have.