Chris
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I ve been give £500,000 to spend on computer stuff in work, any ideas.
Already speced a 20K mail server and a couple a 15k SAN boxes, but still got 450k to spend.
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Ian W
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Location: Wirral, Merseyside
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Top notch backup solution?
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Sam
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Aaron
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Loads of ipads 
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Daniel_Corsa
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What business and what do you have?
PC's
Network
Server
Cabling
Switches
Cabinets
Shortel IP phone system
Software
Printers
Vid Conf
TV's
Website
Having a massive budget is great but £500k can so easy be blown.
Dread to think how much money is sat in one of our data centres!
What does the company want
[Edited on 03-10-2011 by Daniel_Corsa]
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Chris
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Already got 3500 PCs, network is gettin 500k on that also.
Ideas for something like Dell KACE
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Daniel_Corsa
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Microsoft SCCM
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Sam
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You got your 470 PCs sorted out then I presume...
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Rob_Quads
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IBM z196
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Hammer
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You want to be fabricating a tender and accepting brown envelopes for that level of dosh.
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VrsTurbo
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Full VMware - HA, Vmotion etc etc
Backup DR Site with dedicated line between the 2.
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VrsTurbo
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If you need any consultancy based work doing let me know.
Plus i would have more than 1 mail server and have it running in DAG and seperate the roles abit more.
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John
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I'd be getting something filled with Intel 710's for that, then take it home to store my films on.
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Andrew
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
You're crap mate. You should be selling this guy stuff at cost price and claiming back the VAT. You could pretty much pay off your mortage 
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Sam
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Andrew, WTF are you talking about?
Even though I can claim VAT back on expenses/purchases I still have to charge it on anything I sell.
So you tell me, if a company sold everything at cost price only, how does it make a profit? 
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John
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If he's spending 500k he'll be getting it at the lowest price Dell or whoever can possibly sell it to him for anyway.
I don't think you actually work in IT Andrew, I think you just drive a van up and down the motorway all day with some stickers on the side.
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Whittie
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Bit vauge chris tbf
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Russ
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quote:
Originally posted by Everyone on Corsasport
Andrew you're a twat
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VrsTurbo
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quote:
Originally posted by Andrew
quote:
Originally posted by Sam
You're crap mate. You should be selling this guy stuff at cost price and claiming back the VAT. You could pretty much pay off your mortage
such a douche!
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Balling
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[Andrew the Troll]
Start own company.
Sell at cost, everyone will buy.
Reclaim VAT.
= unlimited money!
Problem poorfags? *trollgrinn*
[/Andrew the Troll]
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A2H GO
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If id given someone half a mil to spend on stuff in my company I'd want the person to be capable of knowing exactly what they were getting.
Not expecing them to come on Corsa Sport and ask for ideas.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by A2H GO
If id given someone half a mil to spend on stuff in my company I'd want the person to be capable of knowing exactly what they were getting.
Not expecting them to come on Corsa Sport and ask for ideas.
Wasn't just me thinking this then?
Also i wouldn't be virtualising for the sake of it....
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VrsTurbo
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why wouldnt you go virtual? If you have the capital its very much worth it!
Space, Power, DR Recovery - All improved and savings are proven.
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Rob_Quads
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quote:
Originally posted by VrsTurbo
why wouldnt you go virtual? If you have the capital its very much worth it!
Space, Power, DR Recovery - All improved and savings are proven.
It depends on the technology and platform, i.e. I would never put a large enterprise load (i.e. 16/20 core) load into a VMWare image because they are not multi-core optimised enough. We have seen threading issues with 4/6 way images let alone 16/20 way images.
For big loads bare bones is still best. That said you can move towards VMs using things like AIX LPAR which are a much lower level "VM" although not as dynamic, although this is changing with time.
VMWare is great for many things but definately not all.
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3CorsaMeal
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I'd get the game gear TV adaptor and external disk drive for the amiga with that budget
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