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Linux rises to top dog in servers

Stephen Ellis | August 12, 2008

LAST week's LinuxWorld talkfest in San Francisco, which brought together 10,000 vendors and users of the open source operating system, offered yet another indicator of its growing popularity across enterprise IT groups and among developers. The steady march of Linux into ever more central areas of enterprise IT has been visible in the US for about seven or eight years, and has accelerated in the past two. Once consigned to "non-essential" functions such as serving web pages, Linux is increasingly the basis for software stacks that perform critical data centre tasks. This trend is likely to continue, and is a remarkable success story for software once ridiculed as unfit for corporate use, but the focus at LinuxWorld was not the story to date, as much as the future - where Linux and the open source apps that often sit atop it may be headed next.

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Hardware servers are physical platforms for supporting File sharing, Internet services, Email services, Database services, Networking services, Time services and many others.

This allows users within an organisation to reliability and securely share information and access services while simplifying management and control.

As all your users come to depend on the services provided by your server or servers then reliability is critical.

TruItSupport provide servers that are appropriate for the current business conditions.

At the same time we have an eye to future requirements, this means that you do not get locked in with either operating systems or hardware that make future expansion difficult.

We anticipate future growth and anticipate it from the get go.

Our experience of providing servers to business large and small across Brisbane means that we can provide you with best fit solution for a reasonable investment.

The servers we provide are as varied as our customers.

It is the requirment that drives the actual configuration.

We provide Microsoft® and GNU/Linux or Unix servers. There are many companies with Hybrid systems.

Some of this hybridisation means that they use a Unix style server with Windows® desktops in other cases they have a mix of both Windows and Unix servers.

Some customers have a mix of desktops with both Microsoft Windows® and Linux Desktop being used in the same office.

Having supplied machines and services for organisations as described above we are in a strong position to provide your organisation with advise and services to take you forward with your Information Technology Systems and saving you both capital and recurrent expense.

When TruItSupport provide a server for your organisation we believe security of data is of paramount importance. To this end we will recommend raided disks and backup strategies to provide you with certainty that if anything fails your data (business) will be secure.

TruItSupport supply servers configured and ready to use. We take responsibility for integrating these servers into your existing system or set up a new system for you. You can purchase the the server with or without on going support.