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Rack servers for SMEs

The past few years have seen a concerted shift to the cloud – and the pandemic has only accelerated that. But as the glamour of a new working model wears off, some businesses are finding that hosted services can be inflexible – and more expensive than they’d bargained for. While the initial investment in on-premises hardware can be high, day-to-day running costs are negligible compared to cloud services, and you get total control over your own data and processes.

Many companies are, therefore, looking to reinvest in local server hardware or even to splash out on their first server. Whichever boat

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