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Transitioning From Small Shop IT To Enterprise?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the growing-painfully dept.

Imaginary Friendly asks: "I'm the 3rd guy in a three-person IT firm. We're good and we're expanding. Our clients range from three computers to 30, with our largest client having six servers. We can handle the work but, thanks to my efforts and love (or just luck), I may be signing up two new clients who have 200 networked computers each. We're spread thin as it is, and hiring competent IT staff has been difficult. We're now doing 60-hour work weeks, so re-education has remained passive. How do we transition from manual rebuilds and CD deployments, to full scale (proper) IT administration?"

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  1. Unattended. by Geopoliticus · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check out http://unattended.sourceforge.net/

    I have been using this at our companies for the past two years and has GREATLY simplified our redeployment strategy. If you have different clients who use different computer systems that all run Windows. Do yourself a favor and check it out.

  2. Re:First... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Worst advice ever. You are a startup. You are taking risks in an attempt at big success. Take on all commers. Find the staff. If you don't, you can work 80hr weeks instead. Find people willing to work part-time after their day job. Find students who will install software for cheap.

  3. Re:First... by the-empty-string · · Score: 2, Informative
    Parent and grandparent are right.


    In the meantime, you can get great technical insight about large scale IT management here