SERVERS & WORKSTATIONS

Servers and workstations sized for the software you actually run

Practice hardware gets bought wrong in two directions. Too little, and the front desk watches a spinning cursor every morning. Too much, and you paid for capacity that will age out before anyone ever uses it.

Chairside workstation on an articulating wall arm with a monitor and keyboard in a treatment room

Scope

Sizing, build, deploy, migrate

Practices

Dental, medical, optometry, veterinary

Onsite

Greater Houston and southeast Texas

Handoff

What you own, and when it retires

Sizing the server

Practice management and imaging software have published requirements. We read them, then size the machine for the way your office actually works. A practice taking digital sensors in six operatories puts a different load on a server than one running a single scanner in the back.

If your software vendor hosts the database on their end, you may not need a server at all, and we will say so. There is no reason to buy hardware for a closet when the work is happening somewhere else.

Workstations are not interchangeable

The front desk, the operatory, and the doctor's office are three different jobs, and one machine is rarely right for all of them. Operatory machines get wiped down all day and usually live on a wall arm. Front desk machines have more windows open at once than anything else in the building. We spec them separately, so each one fits the work it is doing.

Machines are set up the same way each time, so a replacement drops in with the same software, the same printers, and the same drives as the one it replaced. Nobody has to relearn a workstation because it is new.

When to replace something

Hardware gets replaced when it is causing problems or when it stops receiving security updates. Those are the two reasons, and we will show you which one applies. When something does need to go, we tell you what and why, and we plan it around your calendar so nobody is standing at a dead workstation with a full waiting room.

Migration day

A server swap is the one job in this business you do not improvise. The new machine is built and tested before anything comes out of the rack. Data moves on an evening or a weekend. Then we are there for the first morning of live use, because that is when whatever we missed will show up.

Where we work

We are based in Katy and support dental, medical, optometry, and veterinary practices across greater Houston and southeast Texas, from Sugar Land and Richmond to League City, Baytown, and The Woodlands.

What's included

  • Servers sized to your software's published requirements

  • Front desk, operatory and office machines spec'd apart

  • A standard build, so a replacement drops straight in

  • The same printers and drives as the machine it replaced

  • A new server built and tested before anything is pulled

  • Somebody here for the first morning of live use

Start here

Tell us what you are running and what software it has to feed. If you do not need a server at all, we will say so.

Request a consultation

What you are left holding

What you own, and when it retires

Sizing

Matched to your practice software, not to a guess

Build

The same software, printers and drives every time

Replacement

Causing problems, or no longer getting security updates

Migration

Built and tested before anything leaves the rack

First morning

Somebody on site when live use starts

Next step

Tell us what you're running

We'll look at what you have, tell you what we'd change and what we'd leave alone, and put it in writing.

Referrals

Refer a clinic to Chimera and, depending on the scope, you could receive free labor or service credits as a thank-you.