pakor incorporated technology upgrades brent pavlovich
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PAKOR INCORPORATEDTechnology Upgrades
Brent Pavlovich
The Problem• Current technology dates back to pre Windows XP
• No easy and reliable data movement system
• No way to access company recourses outside the office
Ways to Mitigate the Problem
• Allow employee access away from the office
• Upgrade department workstations
• Create a background resource network
Data Mobility• 58% of adults use smartphones and tablets at work
• Employees need to be able to use these devices within the organization
• Can range from accessing email to full control of company computer
Employee Workstations• Traditional desktop towers and monitors
• Cheap workhorses• No portability
• Thin Clients• Cheap• Little processing power
Employee Workstations• Laptops and docking stations
• Portable • Expensive for high power models
• Tablets and Ultra-portables• Extreme portability• High cost• Low processing power
Background Resources Software• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software
• Windows Server 2008
• Controllers for thin clients
Background Resource Hardware
Traditional Servers
• Thought of as powerful computers
• One operating system per server
• During a hardware failure, entire system is offline
• Cheaper set up cost
Virtual Servers
• Share one large pool of system resources
• Easy to create a new operating system
• During a hardware failure, system pulls from pool
• Expensive set up cost
Recommendations for Pakor (Data Mobility)
• Use SaaS to implement an ERP system
• Allow employees to use tablets and smartphones
• Estimated cost $650,000
Recommendations for Pakor (Workstations)
• Executive Department• HP Z1 G2 desktops• Apple iPad Air tablets
• Warehouse and Sales• Microsoft Surface 2
tablets• Pro edition for sales
• All other departments• HP AiO thin clients
Estimated cost $30,000
Recommendations for Pakor (Servers)
• Blades for Virtual Resource Pool• HP ProLient BL680c G7
• Storage Area Network for ERP System• 200 terabytes of storage• HP Store Easy 1630
Estimated Cost $320,000
Network Layout
Ways to Mitigate the Problem
• Allow employee access away from the office• Implement ERP systems as SaaS
• Upgrade department workstations• Upgrade workstations to either desktop, laptop, thin client, or tablet
• Create a background resource network• Use blades for a virtual server resource pool