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02.15.2008
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SearchSystemsChannel.com expert Hilary Cotter gives advice on topics such as new sales opportunities, desktop virtualization, server virtualization, databases, service-level requirements, disaster recovery and fault-tolerant and high-availability systems. He draws on his years of hands-on experience in the systems field to answer questions from service providers just like you about selling, positioning, installing, integrating and managing IT systems products, projects and services.

Who is Hilary Cotter?

Hilary Cotter
Hilary Cotter has been involved in IT for more than 20 years as a Web and database consultant. Microsoft first awarded Cotter the Microsoft SQL Server MVP award in 2001. Cotter received his bachelor of applied science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Toronto and subsequently studied both economics at the University of Calgary and computer science at UC Berkeley. He is the author of a book on SQL Server transactional replication and is currently working on books on merge replication and Microsoft search technologies.

Some previous questions Hilary has answered:

Should I recommend desktop virtualization to my SMB clients?

When should a VAR recommend server virtualization to customers?

How to decide which disaster recovery strategy is right for customers?

Read all of Hilary's tips on SearchSystemsChannel.com's Ask The Experts page.


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