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Best IT-infrastructure For a Small Company?

Posted by samzenpus on from the ground-up dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Do my job please. by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, but I'll take the Second Post...

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  2. Re:Don't buy any servers. Use the cloud. by suso · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe that's indeed what he should do since he already doesn't know enough to do it himself, have other people do everything.

  3. It sure is getting CLOUDY by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    And the CLOUD is so in right now. Everyone is using the CLOUD. Just say "CLOUD" and you'll be swamped with job offers. Women will be... ok never mind.

  4. Re:Ask Slashdot by cynyr · · Score: 2, Funny

    "NO!!!! MR. PRESIDENT!!!!! thats the one that launches all the missiles.
    Well which one gets me a latte?
    The other big red button!
    Ohh, who designed this?"

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  5. Re:Why do you want to keep webserver inhouse? by phoenix321 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah. Build everything on your own. For those 20 people, it is totally cost efficient to ditch all those buzzword-toting salespeople and roll your own. Your own certified infrastructure, your own incident team, your own UPSs, your own false floors, your own operating systems, compiled with all optimizer switches on, of course, and your own client PC images, complete with in-house developed software distribution and policies.

    After about 300 man-years worth of training, you're able to surpass most commercial offers. 300 man-years more and you're doing stuff in-house even Google dreams about. Then it's definitely cost-effective.