If you run a small business and are about to purchase office computer servers, then STOP and read this first.

Whatever your computing needs, our servers can meet them and provide these benefits: 

• Flexible, reliable server systems that can run multiple different operating systems at the same time

• Low ongoing maintenance costs, with a core operating system guaranteed to be supported for 5 years

• Electricity Savings through a reduced Carbon Footprint by running multiple servers on a single hardware platform
  
  
• Flexibility of being able to provide new virtual machines rapidly, as required without having to purchase new hardware
  
  
• Save £1000s on not having to purchase multiple servers.
  
  
• Servers supplied fully configured with Support Contracts and training
  
  
• Zero Operating System Licence Costs for Linux based virtual machines
  
  
• Zero Client Access Licences for Linux based Virtual Machines
  

Optimus Open Source Virtualised Servers start at £4,895.00 including a maintenance contract.

If you would like to find out how our servers can save you money, call now and we will be happy to discuss your requirements with you and provide a web based demonstration or visit your business.

Many managers of small businesses are not aware of all the available options when making important IT infrastructure choices for their business and will often reach for what they know.

The standard choice for a server operating system is Microsoft, but is this really ALWAYS the best option?

For a small business, by using Open Source you could save you £1000's  in licence costs, which could more than cover your server support costs AND deliver a solution with high security, robust reliability and LOW ongoing running costs.

But I don't know anything about Open Source! 

This is a common concern,  but one that is easily addressed. If  you do not have your own in-house IT staff,  then you will almost certainly want to contract out your support services to a third party, especially once you start installing and running businesses servers. This will represent a considerable proportion of your annual IT spend.

The support costs for a Microsoft Server will be no less than an Open Source Server (usually more) and we will train to you perform all the necessary routine operations. Furthermore, there are now a large number of skilled Linux Technicians available to provide support.

Our OpenSource Business Servers are designed and built from the outset, to be a LOW maintenance system, providing high levels of resilience. Not only that, they can be easily restored to a default configuration in a matter of minutes, in the event of a disaster.

Contact Optimus to discuss your office computing requirements and we will be happy to discuss the options and costs.

Example Server Configurations

System 1. -  (2 Virtual Machine System) configured to provide:

VM1:Primary Domain Controller with full LDAP User authentication and access permissions, Samba File and Print Services

VM2: Mailserver,  with SMTP delivery,  IMAP/POP3 mailbox support,  Anti Spam,  Anti-Virus

System 2. -  (4 Virtual Machine System) configured to provide:

VM3:EGroupware to provide web-mail, document sharing, calendar sharing, address book sharing, time sheets, work-flow, project management etc, meeting rooms booking, MySQL Database.

VM4: FTP Server configured to allow remote and internal FTP file upload access. This is particularly suitable where customers need to receive large files from their clients, such as printers, graphic designers etc.

VM5: Terminal Server to provide Server-based access to programs such as Open Office or programs of your choice. This saves the application having to be installed n each desktop machine.

VM6: MySQL Database Server. Compatible with supporting most SQL type databases, again this is free software and used extensively in industry and ideal for customer CRM systems.

Additional / alternative Virtual Machines can be configured to provide variety primary functions according to the customer’ requirements.

Pricing

Pricing of our systems depends upon which configuration you choose and the size of server you require etc. We will be happy to provide estimates upon request.