I am a systems administrator working for a 75 Million/yr. Manufacturing company. There are approximately 200 local and remote users that you support along with several servers. As the systems administrator Iam responsible for identifying and solving a wide variety of problems. Many problems can be addressed with little or no expense, however others require a capital expenditure. The CIO and CFO must approve all capital expenditures. Many of the other senior management have input as well.
Based on the problems identified below I must:
Articulate the problem
Identify a solution
Cost justify the solution
Develop a project plan
Develop a project budget
Note: You are not required to propose Microsoft only solutions but solutions must be accurate and justified.
Your company has a very active 24-hour engineering division. The engineering div. requires access to a networked CAD system and a schematic archive imaging system. Theengineering div. is directly responsible for 25 Million/yr. in revenue. There are 40 engineers with an average salary of $130,000/yr.
The server that supports the CAD and archive systems is several years old. The processor averages 85%, and thestorage space is at 90%. I have determined that the server has 90% annual uptime. Within the last three months; I have had to restore from backup twice due to server failure. The down time was 8 hours per incident. I attribute the extended restore time due to a backup system that require me to span across three tapes. The network is 10/100 Ethernet.
The engineers have complained of slow response time. They advise that the average engineer spends 30-40% of their time waiting for the server to serve up files. In the past year along they have had to recreate 76 man-hours of work due to server failure.
Please give me help resolving these problems.
