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If your law firm has five or more users, it has outgrown the “solo” use of laptops, sneaker nets and simple network shares. It’s time to join the small to medium-size law firm computing world. A world that has the same computing needs as Big Law. But how do you get Big Law servers with small law firm budgets?

You assess your software requirements, count end users and determine the role a computer server will play in the office, e.g., application, database, file or print server. Then you hunt for a server with both price and performance in mind. If you lose sight of either, you are liable to end up with an overpriced and underutilized server resource.

Of course you can try to avoid the question altogether, and attempt to get all your computer services from the cloud. But the firm is going to need some resources grounded in this world to share peripherals like printers and scanners, and access online and offline data from local storage devices. Toward that end, this review focuses on a real-world server: Hewlett-Packard’s Proliant ML350 G6.

Abstracting myself from the do you need a server debate for two seconds, check out this review of the HP Proliant ML350 G6, it’s always great to read up about the different vendors server offerings and to see what the reviewers/commentators think of them. Regardless, choose the server that meets your requirements, and consider not just where you are today, but where you could be in six months, a few years and what that means for capacity/upgrade requirements going forward, something I admit that can be easier said than done.

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