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Pakor Incorporated. Technology 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
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Pakor Incorporated Technology 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 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 • Thought of as powerful computers • One operating system per server • During a hardware failure, entire system is offline • Cheaper set up cost
Recommendations forPakor (Data Mobility) • Use SaaS to implement an ERP system • Allow employees to use tablets and smartphones • Estimated cost $650,000
Recommendations forPakor (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 AiOthin clients Estimated cost $30,000
Recommendations forPakor (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
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