With the challenges with many SMB (limited space, poor environment conditions, hard to lockdown, hardware failures, etc) What are you recommending clients put in the cloud, and what are you still keeping on site? I used to be of the mindset that you should always try to have a DC onsite unless it is a really small branch office, but where I work now, there is just one DC in the "main" office and one in the cloud. I work at a location without a DC, and I was thinking about making a proposal of getting a Dell R710 and Server 2016 when it is out, but honestly there doesn't really seem to be a need for it. What do you think? Would you set up an SMB with just a fileserver, or are there other servers/roles you are keeping on premises?
I was thinking before I posted that it probably depends a lot on the LoB application they are using. Is it web based? Can it work using RDS/Citrix? Do large data files need to be transferred between the LoB app and the on-site fileserver?
I was thinking before I posted that it probably depends a lot on the LoB application they are using. Is it web based? Can it work using RDS/Citrix? Do large data files need to be transferred between the LoB app and the on-site fileserver?
