The demise of the Small Business Server

I’ve been in IT a long time, and remember configuring BackOffice Server 4.0 for customers, right up until Small Business Server 2008 (I stopped doing on-premises work with the formation of Paradyne in 2010 so skipped the 2011 range).

Having spent a big portion of my career working with SMBs I have been a great fan of the Small Business Server range, however as Internet access becomes faster and cheaper the cloud is starting to eat in to the requirements for on-premises equipment.

I recently wrote a series for BoxFreeIT breaking down what I saw as the two main reasons for the demise of Small Business Server:

– product rationalisation

– the cloud

Once of the things I joke about with customers is that over the years I’ve sold and deployed many SBS environments – now I’m spending my days actively shutting them down!

Also published on Medium.