Best IT-infrastructure For a Small Company?

DiniZuli writes "I've been employed by a small NGO to remake their entire IT-infrastructure from scratch. It's a small company with 20 employees. I would like to ask the /.-crowd what worked out best for you and why? I came up with a small list: Are there any must have books on building the IT infrastructure? New desktops: should it be laptops (with dockingstations), regular desktop machines or thin clients? A special brand? Servers: We need a server for authentication and user management. We also need an internal media server (we have thousands of big image and video files, and the archive grows bigger every year). Finally we would like to have our web server in house. Which hardware is good? Which setup, software and OS'es have worked the best for you? Since we are remaking everything, this list is not exhaustive, so feel free to comment on anything important not on the list."

Comments

Maybe you should resign?

[MikeDataLink]

I mean seriously. Have you considered resigning? You don't know what you're doing and asking slashdot for instructions?

Try this for inspiration: Epic Bill Gates Rage Guy

Poor NGO

[A Friendly Troll]

They hired someone who has absolutely no idea what to do.

How did you get that job? Why did you get that job?

I'd understand if you didn't know ONE thing, but ALL OF THEM? Seriously?!

P.S. You didn't ask for advice on which mice to buy - laser or IR, and if they need to be a special brand, and USB/PS2, and if the mouse cable needs to be braided, and how many buttons it should have.

Re:Don't buy any servers. Use the cloud.

[GigsVT]

Since when is "farming shit out to some website" known as "the cloud"?

Talk about marketing bullshit.