Money to spend (for once)

Chaps,

I realise thise may be a little off the topic but need some
advice and you 
guys have never failed.

Have been given some money to throw at infrastructure and
trying to decide 
where to upgrade, either the Exchange (2003) or the File
server.

Both are happily running and am newish to the company so it
is difficult to 
forecast growth.  From your experience where is the
processing power needed 
more. Which areas tend to increase preformance requirements
more rapidly. If 
you were given some dosh, where woudl you invest it?

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

PS. any expenditure must be allocated within infrastructure.
 A fast car is 
not acceptable. I know becuase i asked...


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Andy Wolstenholme <> wrote on Thursday, August 10,
2006 10:05 AM:

1ry goal: Data never ever decreases. Therefore more storage
is almost always
needed. With that said, more fileservers, or more
hd-space/raids for the
fileservers you already have.

Same analogy can be used to get more hd-space for the
exchange-servers.

Which of these you choose to add more hd-space too is your
preference.

2ry goal (way down...): More bandwidth. Ie gigabit all the
way out to the
clients.

3ry goal: Computing-power today is fine as it is, ie if you
do normal
server-stuff.

What does your company do? Might be easier to advise if we
knew.

Comment: We still use 1GHz P3/Athlon/Duron single-cpus and
dual-cpus P3
servers. Heck, we even still have a single-cpu P3/500 still
running... The
only thing that is a constant PITA is hd-space. We currently
have around 3TB
total and would need more. Perhaps some kind of
consoliditation, as the
hd-space we have today is spread out here and there. Maybe a
SAN/NAS?

Another interesting area of expansion is to build a
tech-corner/lab with spare
parts on the shelfs. 



> Chaps,
>
> I realise thise may be a little off the topic but need
some advice and you
> guys have never failed.
>
> Have been given some money to throw at infrastructure
and trying to decide
> where to upgrade, either the Exchange (2003) or the
File server.
>
> Both are happily running and am newish to the company
so it is difficult to
> forecast growth.  From your experience where is the
processing power needed
> more. Which areas tend to increase preformance
requirements more rapidly. If
> you were given some dosh, where woudl you invest it?
>
> Any advice is greatly appreciated.
>
> PS. any expenditure must be allocated within
infrastructure.  A fast car is
> not acceptable. I know becuase i asked...


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