Software for Small Business

The well-being of, arguably, every business process in our age is largely shaped by the pace of progress of a company's digital infrastructure. Of course, the most important role belongs to the actions of the server administrator who supports and configures the information system; however, no matter how knowledgeable the pilot may be, he cannot make the car exceed its built-in limits. Thus, the technical component of the system — which depends on the capabilities of the server hardware and the software and utilities installed and configured on it — is no less important.

It is pointless to debate priorities in this case, since all parts are important: the hardware, the utilities, and, no less important, the work of administrators to install and maintain them.

Given today's level of development and current technologies for increasing the performance of data centers and personal computers, vast opportunities for implementation have become available, and this is reflected in new versions of utilities and operating systems. One can notice, so to speak at first glance, that significant changes have affected the interfaces as well. A vivid example of the effect of a new version on the interface are the builds of the latest Windows 7 OS — among the most widespread in this family are Windows 7 Build and Microsoft Windows 7 Build for enterprise use. According to specialists at the company "Vector-Info", this version is somewhat more demanding in hardware requirements than the previous Windows, but it includes a whole list of innovations. Not long ago, adapted localizations of Windows 7 Build as well as Ultimate became available for sale, having inherited a rather extensive Start menu from their predecessors.

Among the recent programs, alongside those mentioned, it is worth considering the latest version of Microsoft Office 2010. After some unplanned rework, it finally became available here. But among word-processing applications, the majority of the domestic audience will probably still choose MS Office 2007, which has become convenient for many.

The release of the latest build of the communication application Exchange has been of interest to staff at industrial IT companies and data centers. It should be noted that, despite the desire to use hard-drive capacity as efficiently as possible, engineers at "Vector-Info" advise against using a shared physical storage for installing Exchange 2010 and MS SQL Server 2008. This is explained by the fact that when processing a heavy workload, MS Exchange uses the majority of the storage performance resources, so using a single disk pool will inevitably lead to a decrease in Exchange 2010 performance.