Windows Home Server Consumer Case Study
We enjoyed working with Steven Leonard and Mark Pendergrast on the WHS team, putting together a video case study on Windows Home Server. Full Disclosure – the subjects are the CEO (and his girlfriend) of a company we do Outsourced IT for (Blythe Plumbing & Heating). You can learn more about Windows Home Server here. I’m sure everybody reading this knows that WHS is a great "Home" Server, but we’re using it with four clients now in a business setting. We think that WHS is a great low cost way to backup Windows laptops and key desktops. Because the backups are image based, the backups happen super quickly (after the first one). You can learn more about WHS backup here. Keep in mind that whereever it says "family," we see small business. WHS works in a workgroup (or domain!) environment, and will backup up to 10 computers. (workgroup limitation)
We are also using WHS as a SOHO NAS – with hosted exchange as part of a managed service offering. We’re looking forward to S+S from Microsoft to help us expand on that combined local premise plus hosted solution…
Peter Sandiford
This is all great AND with Level Platforms you can take this one giant step further using WHS as the remote management gateway for small business. Our agentless Onsite Manager drops onto WHS like a hot knife in butter and delivers complete end-to-end remote monitoring and management of every device and application on the network. We will be announcing this shortly so this is a heads up to Aaron and his fans.