November 2010
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
19h 15m
English
The medium-sized business is defined by Microsoft as having between 50 and 500 personal computers and up to 50 servers. The companies that were in this market were forgotten about for quite some time. They looked at their smaller neighbors who had the excellent Small Business Server. They looked at their larger neighbors who had access to bulk licensing deals and expensive systems management products.
Medium-sized businesses are caught in a catch-22 situation. They have a requirement to provide a larger IT infrastructure to enable the business, but their budget is small. The medium-sized business faces all the same challenges as the small and large business. They have had two choices: