I continue to think about the HP MicroServer Gen8 as an excellent opportunity to bridge the gap between the physical and cloud/virtual world, as my cloud offline local cache. The vehicle for Cloud services to be hosted and streamed through whether its for email, analytics or collaboration. I tell you what I mean. This is what I want as a reseller, a fix IT guy, a nonsense removal device for all those SMB’s where they have their own Exchange server, their own file server, their own everything in a box when they have five employees on site and a few people working remotely on their own pc. They’re not sure quite why they have that, but that’s what the nice independent server sales man said they needed. I want a Cloud in a box like the WEDG but with the backing of enterprise grade applications and possibilities to hook into market standard Cloud applications and service providers. I want to switch on a HP MicroServer or similar device. Then a wizard appear. Click next (to define any network specific values) then it say right you want to setup a cloud caching device it then talks me through: Using an existing account and downloading all the settings and caching any pre-subscribed services, establishing the backup and maintenance jobs etc. This enables me to move to another server seamlessly. Or just set me up a new existence a new domain name, a new online platform and identity A new existence means, I choose the domain name, I choose the services I want with a tick box and then enter my credit card and purchase information then it creates everything for me: My email My internal SharePoint/collaborative calendars and working environments My web presence a page with company name that I can then mess around with will do – a wordpress as a service would be ideal Create two local shares Apps – for streaming or installing apps which are cloud based Data – with cloud and offline, cloud stores cloud replicated data, offline is local storage only Then it needs to: Set up the backups and then offers – cloud backup services if I want them Set up the maintenance schedule – the maintnenace, the security patching and firewall/virus scan settings Register with the cloud for management – power off, rebuild...