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| I am a lazy consultant by McMoo 05/04/2007, 1:17pm PDT | ||||
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| Client: growing entertainment company (does bar installations for events like goat beheadings, etc) adds about 5 office staff a year
Have a glorified PC running 2003 server, there is one "group" document share and on "management" share plus quickbooks and archive half of the clients are xp home, the other half are xp pro (no vista machines yet) mostly decent 12-15 desktops and mostly shit 8-10 (acer) laptops they have 3 acer desktops running their CNC machines their web site and a sales app (for internal use) are hosted by a company off-site they also host mail with web access for remote users Issues: they have no IT staff, just one slash person who handles questions they've had a couple PCs die and lose data (outlook PST files) son is taking over from dad and doesn't want to deal with to do CIO type stuff Need VPN / worldwide remote access Solutions: New server (Opteron based, Tyan board) with SCSI RAID or SATA RAID (is SATA reliable enough? Motherhead, help!) Decent laptops (I like the ASUS Ensemble ones, but now I see them in Big Box stores and that scares me) - ASUS or HP 3 yr lease, replacement for PCs, phase out XP Home Machines as needed don't think they need to have all the machines on XP Pro right away Offsite backup (10GB) Possible Exchange server install with web access? maybe too pricy, need exchange plus virus/spamfilter plus I'm not an Exchange expert Thinking network appliance for VPN / mail /firewall, I've used the Instagate EX2's before but you really get jammed on support/ software updates. Support contract 2 days / month for training, 24 hour call service etc So, Caltrops braintrust? |
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I am a lazy consultant by 05/04/2007, 1:17pm PDT  Re: I am a lazy consultant by 05/04/2007, 3:50pm PDT I am not Quentin Beck NT by 05/04/2007, 3:50pm PDT Re: I am a lazy consultant by 05/04/2007, 7:42pm PDT spend the $400 to get it racked/cabled by professionals by 05/06/2007, 5:36am PDT Re: spend the $400 to get it racked/cabled by professionals by 05/06/2007, 7:57pm PDT |
