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Our Firm's
Journey to
the Cloud
by Steve White of Fowler Bell PLLC
Four years ago, our data center
Steve White is a Technical Support Specialist at Fowler Bell in Lexington,
KY. Steve is also the local programming liaison for ILTA's Desktop and
Applications Support Peer Group Steering Committee. He can be contacted
at swhite@fowlerlaw.com.
was fairly typical. It had Active
Directory, multiple servers, Citrix,
email archiving, antivirus and Web
content filtering. We also had a tape
library and some extra servers "just
in case." In our 20-attorney law firm,
with a staff of 50, the hardware
footprint was literally one server for
every two attorneys. We needed a
change, and virtual was the way to go.
Why We Chose the
Cloud
Many firms have faced this same
scenario, with increasing demands
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