Brady

Big things at work the other day, I am in the middle of moving the Ford Retail Intranet site up to York data centre from their old Dagenham data centre. Well the server the intranet currently works on is a very old server, not powerful enough for running any of the web applications that I have built. Some of them deal with phrasing logs etc and need a fast powerful machine to get them done quickly.

When building these applications they have been put on a server in York which is our backup ISA server that was pulled out of a scrap heap. But funny enough it’s the most powerful server I think we have LOL. Well anyway part of this move up to York for the intranet I am trying to push for a powerful web server. Well Roley is also trying to push for new hard ware too. I proper 6TB NAS unit, Load Balancers, layer 7 switches, new ISA servers and new Domain Controllers. The hardware we have currently got is falling apart. So together we are teaming up to get the hardware we want As ever it’s all about getting approval to spend the money. We are looking at £30,000 for the lot. Not a lot compared to what the business want to put in which I can’t explain right now.