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."

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Let's have fun!

[AnonymousClown]

It's an NGO - 20 employees. NGO? Non-Governmental Organization? Some do-gooder type of company?

They hired this guy based on, let's say, "stylish" reasons and not by his qualifications. Because if he were a real geek, he'd know exactly what, how, and how much off the top of his head. So, let's fuck with him:

"Dude. You need a Mac Pro server and a 12-Core Mac Pro on every desk AND every one absolutely needs a 64GB WiFi 3GS iPad AND an iPhone. Otherwise, you will FAIL and children will starve!!!"