Soldato
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Hi guys, I'm just looking for some general advice on where to start on this project!
The company I work for delivers various training courses. Once idea the training team have come up with is 'virtual training', whereby the delegates dial into a classroom session to interact with the trainer and use hosted resources to perform the exercises, via the wonders of virtualisation.
The problems I foresee are the capital cost of buying the servers themselves and upgrading our normal business internet connection to an enormously fat and reliable pipe to handle all the traffic.
The alternative, I guess, is a hosted server in a data centre. We'd want full access to the OS and for the servers to be only hosting our content.
How much, very roughly would you be looking to rent out resources such as this? Are there 'recommended' data centres to go looking into for this kind of thing for small/medium businesses?
The company I work for delivers various training courses. Once idea the training team have come up with is 'virtual training', whereby the delegates dial into a classroom session to interact with the trainer and use hosted resources to perform the exercises, via the wonders of virtualisation.
The problems I foresee are the capital cost of buying the servers themselves and upgrading our normal business internet connection to an enormously fat and reliable pipe to handle all the traffic.
The alternative, I guess, is a hosted server in a data centre. We'd want full access to the OS and for the servers to be only hosting our content.
How much, very roughly would you be looking to rent out resources such as this? Are there 'recommended' data centres to go looking into for this kind of thing for small/medium businesses?