San Diego Small Business IT Outsourcing

Small Business IT Outsourcing Why Outsourcing Makes Business Sense

IT outsourcing provides small businesses in the San Diego area with the opportunity to save money on IT support while improving the business value of their information system. IT outsourcing gives your company access to skilled consultants without requiring the costly expansion of your full-time IT staff. By outsourcing IT services, your management can concentrate more on business issues while network support worries are handled by dedicated, experienced and certified professionals.

Because of its cost-effectiveness, IT outsourcing among small businesses has grown dramatically in recent years. This growth has been brought about largely by a combination of highly leveraged support technologies and highly flexible outsourcing programs. Surveys highlight a number of key reasons that motivate small businesses to outsource IT services:

Improve company focus
Reduce operating costs
Free up internal technical resources
Provide reliable access to experienced IT consultants
Add technical know-how not available in-house

DCI has years of experience delivering IT outsourcing solutions to small businesses. This experience allows DCI to offer your business an optimal IT outsourcing program that matches both your budget and your operational needs. DCI's IT outsourcing services are affordable and flexible. You do not have to sign a long-term contract or commit to minimum retainers.

DCI offers a variety of IT outsourcing services for small businesses in the San Diego area:

Exchange Server Support Services	DCI's Microsoft-certified consulting staff have eighteen years of experience designing, deploying, and supporting email solutions for both small businesses and large enterprises. DCI's experience and field-proven methodologies can help you successfully implement a fast, transparent migration to Microsoft Exchange. DCI attends to critical details such as coordinating domain names transition so that both local and mobile users make a seamless transition from POP3 email.
SharePoint Support	DCI's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you evaluate the business case for using SharePoint Portal Server 2003, provide configuration and deployment assistance, architect your network infrastructure, help get your standard and custom application software to operate with Microsoft SharePoint, develop a company-wide security strategy that incorporates portal technology, and deliver troubleshooting and Help Desk support services.
Redundant Consultants	DCI's Microsoft and Cisco-certified team members can help you create a sensible, redundant network that meets critical issues covering a broad spectrum of infrastructure technologies and processes including fault tolerant ISP links, Windows server clustering, server load balancing, Data Center solutions, interoffice connectivity, and disaster recovery.
Windows Active Directory Support	DCI's Microsoft-certified experts have broad knowledge troubleshooting complex Active Directory problems such as server replication problems, multi-domain partition configurations, damaged AD objects, clean-up of legacy test application configuration objects in production AD environment, and repair of failed installations of AD and AD-integrated software. DCI is also skilled in using “expert only” AD tools such as ADSIEDIT, NTDSUTIL, DCDIAG and NETDIAG.
Disaster Recovery Consulting	In case of a major disaster, a sound disaster recovery strategy can make the key difference between a minor glitch in business continuity and a major catastrophe. DCI's disaster recovery experts can help you create recovery plans, design a fault-tolerant network infrastructure, and conduct realistic test exercises.
Apple Mac Consulting Services	DCI's Apple and Microsoft certified experts can help you install Microsoft Entourage and Exchange Server so your Apple Mac users can share information with team members who run Microsoft Outlook. With Microsoft Entourage 2004 for Apple Macintosh, you can receive and send email, search your Exchange global address list (GAL), import email addresses, synchronize your calendar and invite people to meetings with your Exchange account.
Wireless Consulting	DCI's wireless services includes traditional 802.11 infrastructure but can also assist you with wireless bridges, which provide a speedy and cost effective way to establish secure, high performance data connectivity between buildings. This can eliminate the cost of an extra leased circuit, provide an emergency failover communication link, or act as a low cost data backhaul. By reducing installation expenses and eliminating, recurring fees associated with standard T1, E1 or DS-3 circuits, wireless bridges can often pay for themselves in less than a year.

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