At the place of work i'm leaving shortly (hopefully), we've had recent issues with an exchange server slowly dying. Due to me doing two jobs this was outsourced as no-one would sign off the fact the move from this old (7 year old, pentium 3, 768mb of ram and a whole 11GB raid 5 array) was fraught with danger. (it's physically died on me 3 times)
So the outsourced company migrate to a new server, everything else the same, they did it over the weekend and the change cost me 3.5 days of fixing all the issues they had left me with.
Now they've put in a proposal to take over the running of the network and i've just seen the plan and it is THE MOST amazing overspecced system ever.....
we have 39 employees, the p3 exchange server has run without problems for 7 years till now.
The replacement is based on Windows 2008 server, 2007 Exchange has virtualised front end exchange system, on two seperate servers with 2 backend servers running exchange with log shipping in place.
So 4 servers on an operating system that we don't even run on our development boxes, all probably requiring 64bit servers due to exchange requirements.
Talk about overkill!, i've never seen such a knee jerk reaction by management ever. Its like living in fairy land here at the moment.
They are planning to outsource the mailsweeper at the cost of £3.50 a month per mailbox with archiving, we do the same in house for a grand total of £200 per year all tolled, the system has had 0 issues for 4 years. WHY!?!?!?!?.
They are not going to replace my IT role at all, yet my junior will have no-one technically competent with any of this to guide him on what to do!.
I'm seriously quite guidy at the moment with the impending disaster of them implementing a complete OTT solution, with a junior that won't be able to support it (he's only just graduated)
If i had any power at board level i'd be putting in a move of no confidence in the MD heh.
TiG


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It does sound as if someone has too much money to spend and not the faintest idea how IT actually works...



