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Things aren’t all bad during a recession and if you’re still here in 2009, you’re doing better than some!  You should use this time to prepare for a recovering economy.  And here are two reasons why there’s no better time to do it.

Less user traffic, easier to migrate

Upgrading or migrating your technology infrastructure can be tricky and costly in a live production environment.  However, with fewer customers and commercial web traffic, you’ve been handed the perfect opportunity for upgrading or migrating your technology infrastructure.  Any planned or even unplanned outages will have much less impact on already slow business.

Recession Discounts

And not only is traffic significantly lower, because of the recession, competition for your business has increased, therefore cost of IT products and services are also significantly lower.  Some of these services are even no-cost.

Free for all

Google Apps hosted services currently have a standard, no-charge edition that includes ad-based hosting of email, calendar and document services for your company.  This is a great way for small even medium businesses to lower IT overhead taking advantage of Google’s superior spam management and groupware features built-in to Google Docs and Google Calendar.

Blue-light Special

Further, many hosted services (e.g. managed and unmanaged servers) are now deeply discounted.  Upgrading your capacity and actually SAVING money over your current services is common in this market.  Do some shopping around and you may find you can have more and pay LESS than you are now.

The Advantage

With a few simple migrations and upgrades when the economy does recover you will be ready.  And maybe, even for now, save on costs with these new services.  Also, your boss will have yet another reason to keep you around, since you’ll be busy doing no-cost or low cost upgrades to the company’s IT infrastructure…which will make them look good too!

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