So says David Berlind from ZDnet in an article titled, “SMBs should outsource everything and vendors must adjust.” He concludes that very few businesses will be able to justify insourcing their infrastructure by saying, “those businesses are fewer and farther between and if you ask me, sales in the SMB infrastructure channel are basically surviving on a myth: the myth that SMBs should be insourcing.”

David came to this conclusion after meet with EMC. “But a real IT partner should say “Well, we’d be happy to sell you that storage, but perhaps there’s a different way you should be thinking about your IT.” Along the way, outfits like EMC could instead, recommend EMC-outfitted hosting providers instead.”

We have slowly been headed in this direction with our online backup solution, hosted spam and hosted DNS services.