 veloslaveGeek For GodPremium
join:2003-07-11
Pleasant Hill, CA
 ·PHONE POWER
·BroadVoice
 ·Comcast
| Your network four to five years from now One of my clients that I admin for as a consultant has actually listened to my "we need to have a two year and a four to five year technology plan" lecture. My two year plan is upgrades to our hardware running on a 2008 sbs running Exchange... some new workstations and printers here and there. The network is modern Cisco so for me, like many perhaps I am looking to the Cloud. Maybe gmail and docs etc.
Other than AD and maybe some file serving I think gmail has it together pretty well. I have been using it for a while now and feel over the long run it will be a big savings amd less work.
So where do you see taking your network/business in five years?
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 NightfallMy Goal Is To Deny YoursPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-03
Grand Rapids, MI
 ·Site5.com
·Comcast
·Callcentric
| Every five year plan is different, but every IT department should have a five year plan.
One of mine is to utilize the cloud more than we are today. We are going to be migrating to Office 365 this year for starters. Back about three years ago, part of our five year plan was to move all physical servers into our virtual environment, and this year we will complete that.
Those are just a couple examples.....
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I manage a K-12 edu environment, but similar goals.
Virtualized all of our servers, new Cisco 3750X network infrastructure with PoE in every closet, working on getting a wireless project off the ground and should be done in a few months, and then starting to piece together a BYOD environment for the students using VMWare View. Piloting View right now with 40 licenses as a home remote access for the staff.
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