PAKOR INCORPORATEDTechnology Upgrades

Brent Pavlovich

The Problem• Current technology dates back to pre Windows XP

• No easy and reliable data movement system

• No way to access company recourses outside the office

Ways to Mitigate the Problem

• Allow employee access away from the office

• Upgrade department workstations

• Create a background resource network

Data Mobility• 58% of adults use smartphones and tablets at work

• Employees need to be able to use these devices within the organization

• Can range from accessing email to full control of company computer

Employee Workstations• Traditional desktop towers and monitors

• Cheap workhorses• No portability

• Thin Clients• Cheap• Little processing power

Employee Workstations• Laptops and docking stations

• Portable • Expensive for high power models

• Tablets and Ultra-portables• Extreme portability• High cost• Low processing power

Background Resources Software• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software

• Windows Server 2008

• Controllers for thin clients

Background Resource Hardware

Traditional Servers

• Thought of as powerful computers

• One operating system per server

• During a hardware failure, entire system is offline

• Cheaper set up cost

Virtual Servers

• Share one large pool of system resources

• Easy to create a new operating system

• During a hardware failure, system pulls from pool

• Expensive set up cost

Recommendations for Pakor (Data Mobility)

• Use SaaS to implement an ERP system

• Allow employees to use tablets and smartphones

• Estimated cost $650,000

Recommendations for Pakor (Workstations)

• Executive Department• HP Z1 G2 desktops• Apple iPad Air tablets

• Warehouse and Sales• Microsoft Surface 2

tablets• Pro edition for sales

• All other departments• HP AiO thin clients

Estimated cost $30,000

Recommendations for Pakor (Servers)

• Blades for Virtual Resource Pool• HP ProLient BL680c G7

• Storage Area Network for ERP System• 200 terabytes of storage• HP Store Easy 1630

Estimated Cost $320,000

Network Layout

Ways to Mitigate the Problem

• Allow employee access away from the office• Implement ERP systems as SaaS

• Upgrade department workstations• Upgrade workstations to either desktop, laptop, thin client, or tablet

• Create a background resource network• Use blades for a virtual server resource pool