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are you talking bout ur clients or members?
What the heck is up with people wanting everything and the kitchen sink in their networking/server solution but only want to pay less than peanuts for it. Really makes me think I'm on Cheap|OCP and not on Hard|OCP.
/rant
Fast Good Cheap
Pick two.
Who doesn't want more for less?
I want a Ferarri for the price of a Yugo... and I'm sure others won't argue with that either.
What the heck is up with people wanting everything and the kitchen sink in their networking/server solution but only want to pay less than peanuts for it. Really makes me think I'm on Cheap|OCP and not on Hard|OCP.
/rant
Could say the opposite....
Someone makes a post requesting suggestions for a 4-5 node small dentists office....some people start quoting back VMWare solutions running multiple virtual servers in full rack mount cabinets.
I actually see faaaaar more of those overkills..than underspec'd suggestions.
Could say the opposite....
Someone makes a post requesting suggestions for a 4-5 node small dentists office....some people start quoting back VMWare solutions running multiple virtual servers in full rack mount cabinets.
I actually see faaaaar more of those overkills..than underspec'd suggestions.
Sometimes while reading posts on here i think i'm the only one that still believes keep is simple/stupid. ESXi in a dentist office is major overkil lol.
Funny, i was thinking about making a thread similar to this.
This happens everywhere dude.
"Why can't I run my 15 client office off the eMachines PC I bought at Best Buy? I bought a USB drive for backup."
"For 5 clients you need Cat 9+++ cableing to support Gigabit ethernet more than 25 feet, and most certainly need one server for DHCP, DNS, and firewall. One server for e-mail that must have 2 quad core Xeon's and 16 gigs of RAM. And a 3rd server for file sharing that has 8 gigs of RAM and a RAID 0+1 array with 15k SAS hard drives backing up to a fibre channel SAN."
Honestly? Depends on the dental office. I worked at one where ESXi would have made perfect sense. When I started there, they had 4 servers. When I left, 12. And it wasn't me just spec'ing them out, willy nilly. I crammed as many services on each box as I felt comfortable doing ( well, a couple more on one or two of those boxes ). Simply put, if you have a client who's interested in using technology to it's fullest then you need to prepare for the future.Sometimes while reading posts on here i think i'm the only one that still believes keep is simple/stupid. ESXi in a dentist office is major overkil lol.
Honestly? Depends on the dental office. I worked at one where ESXi would have made perfect sense. When I started there, they had 4 servers. When I left, 12. And it wasn't me just spec'ing them out, willy nilly. I crammed as many services on each box as I felt comfortable doing ( well, a couple more on one or two of those boxes ). Simply put, if you have a client who's interested in using technology to it's fullest then you need to prepare for the future.
And how often do you walk into a client and see a 3-5 year old E Machines that doubles as the secretary's desktop chugging away? Every one specs the best around here but few implement it. Sadly, even fewer take the middle ground and run with a reasonable system.
Honestly..not many. I try to focus on small to medium business networks....so pretty much don't have many (by choice) "peer to peer" clients.
Walking into some old eMachine based network would be a good opportunity for me though, so actually...walking into that setup, I'd have a chance to do what I do best....convert a peer to peer network to a full server based network...ideally Small Business Server.
To me..that's a good thing. Just because they're on some underpowered crap system isn't my fault, but it can be my blessing..and opportunity to make money.
One member here and on Speedguides forums (TWW) said it best...something to the effect of "Other consultants are my best source of clients". Translation...other wannabe consultants that screw up and do a bad job...their clients get sick of them and find a real consultant (that's where I step in)
This is what I like to read -- thank you. In general I have very little faith in consultants; I have had bad luck in the past dealing with some firms. Why dontcha come over to the Chicagoland area, I can give you some good work.
Why dontcha come over to the Chicagoland area, I can give you some good work.
I agree as well. Alot of people here will suggest overkill setups for something fairly basic, not everyone of course but enough to make it aggravating that's for sure.
As far as consultants go- I will say that the SMB market has a tough time finding quality consultants or IT staff for that matter. My company works with a lot of small banks in the midwest and there are countless times I get frustrated by some fly-by-night IT guy thinking he's got it setup right and it turns out to be a crazy mess instead. I do believe that as you start working at a larger company (say around 100 employees) you have the money to spend to get some better consultants, in my experience you can get better help if they're specialized (say VMWare or Exchange) instead of a jack of all trades. They cost more of course but that's why we have a sales staff- to make us the money to spend...
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Yeah, my company has a tad more than 100 employees. (~6500). I try to bring in more specialized consultants, and my boss (VP) keeps shooting down the good ones I want to bring in. Though recently, I managed to squeeze a really good firm and my boss was impressed. We're incredibly understaffed right now and I have made several attempts to bring in a permament guy, but no approvals yet. Until then, we rely on many temps and consultants for project-based work.
Yeah, my company has a tad more than 100 employees. (~6500). I try to bring in more specialized consultants, and my boss (VP) keeps shooting down the good ones I want to bring in. .
That many people and no full time IT propeller head? Holy smokes!
Oh no, we have a sizable IT staff actually -- I'm just short of desktop techs and service desk folks (Although I don't manage the help desk). I dedicated one of my techs to a desktop engineer position because our images needed more work and maintenance, so he pretty much does this, and he'll be in charge of our SCCM setup once it goes live. Oh I cannot wait until we get rid of CA Asset Managementl. But he does extremely well and this was probably one of the better choices I've made in my career so far.
Anything with CA in it sucks balls, i had to use Unicenter service desk. Hated every minute of it.
Amen to that. We switched from Network Associates - Magic TSD to CA Unicenter at my old job. God was it a piece.
Now where I'm at, we use Remedy which isn't horrible, but at some point they're going to want me to implement Altiris Helpdesk Solution which I'm not exactly thrilled about. Simply because they bought the entire Altiris Suite, TMS.