Buy a standard computer for all your workstations

Don't buy your computers piecemeal from all kinds of different places. "It's ideal to get a homogenous environment so that all the machines are identical hardware-wise," says Greg Alevizos. "The maintenance needs go down, and the total cost of ownership goes down in terms of scalability."

He recommends staying with major vendors like Dell or Hewlett-Packard and getting a warranty and a service contract.

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