Business insights from James Watson
Is there an economic recovery starting? The stock market has had a significant rally, consumers are starting to buy again and things are starting to look up a bit as we move into summer. Things may be slowly starting to recover but the shocks to the economy will change the way people spend and how businesses plan their operations. I know I really look at investment decisions with a new cautiousness; everything we spend money on must have a positive ROI. We are finding this is much the case with our clients too.Business is picking up as budgets unfreeze however; large projects where companies buy pallets of servers and desktops to replace the old ones are not happening.Everyone is very concerned about costs and without an immediate ROI companies are just not making the investment.
In this installment of our newsletter we have put in a number of articles that can help your business with an immediate impact on ROI. Last quarter we had an article on Virtualization with Hyper-V, this quarter we are publishing a case study with Bader Martin on how they virtualized their infrastructure and managed to cut their expenses. We are also including an article on business continuity and disaster readiness.With the cost of maintaining onsite and remote backup facilities this could be a significant monthly cost savings and free up your IT people’s time and improve reliability. Also for those of you who have their budgets starting to thaw; now is really a great time to pick up really high quality IT people for less. We are still seeing a soft job market so now is the time to scoop some talent at a discount before things start to pick up again.
Thank you for trusting us as your IT partner, give us a call with any of your IT issues. Odds are we are able to help.
James Watson,
CEO Northwest Computer Support.