2. When IT consultants serve mainly as technology ambulance workers, it’s
inefficient, costly, and ultimately a disservice to the client. One of our most
important jobs is to make the client understand something is going to
break before there is a tech emergency.
Tech Republic September issue 2011
18. 2010 Budgett $100,000
Existing Network 2003
Consulting Hardware
32% 37%
8 Servers with various Operating systems
Software
All require 31%
hardware upgrades
Some end of life and downages daily
2011 Budget
Software
Proposed Network
12%
Consulting
30%
Server SBS 2008 and 2008 R2 Enterprise
Hardware
58%
New Dell R510 Servers
Designed for above 75 users and 4 VM plus Host
19. Windows Windows Server 2008
Foundation
Windows Small Business Server 2008 / 2011
Number of PCs
25 50 100 250
Point at which, on average,
businesses hire Full-time IT person
Windows 2003 R2
Windows Server 2008 R2
“End of Lifecycle”
Server 2003 R2 Enterprise System $3200 Server 2008 R2 Enterprise $4200.00 CAD
IBM Server $2300.00 CAD Dell Server $4500.00 CAD
Designed for above 75 users 1 to 1 Designed for above 75 users and 4 VM plus Host
20. Current
Costs During Changeover
Costs Before Changeover
Cost in Thousands
25 50 100 250
Windows 2003 R2 2008/2009
Windows Server 2008 R2 2010
Hardware/Consulting
Hardware/software/repair $40,000 Hardware/software/repair $71,000
Consulting Costs (5 consultants) $170,000 Consulting Costs (1 Consultant) $38,000
3rd Party Repairs/Maintenance $20,000 3rd Party Repairs/Maintenance NIL
21. “If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0”
22. Acceptable Uptime (%) Downtime Per day Downtime Per month Downtime Per year
95 72.00 minutes 36 hours 18.26 days
99 14.40 minutes 7 hours 3.65 days
99.9 86.40 seconds 43 minutes 8.77 hours
99.99 8.64 seconds 4 minutes 52.60 minutes
99.999 0.86 seconds 26 seconds 5.26 minutes
percentage of time that a given system is active and working. The following table correlates the percentage of availability to calendar time equivalents.
25. Mobile
Devices
Workstations Servers
Security
Phones
Appliances
26.
27. “If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0”
Editor's Notes
R510 is $9487.00 less $3270.00 removal of OS Software is $6217.00R410 is $8038.00 less $3270.00 removal of Software is $4768.002003 is $3995.00 plus $1200 is $5195.00 less $9487 is a difference of $4292.00 or $2843.00 with the R410
Great questions to start with.What would you say has been the best experience moving forward from the way things used to be? Try and remember those workgroup days and multiple usernames and passwords just to get email, files and mobile devices working before the change.What challenges were all of you facing before you sought out changes to your business infrastructure environment?
