Buy vs Lease vs Cloud
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[edit] Info
- mantis: 0003000: [* IT] IT strategy: Buy vs Lease vs Cloud
[edit] Core requirements
Jaguar as a company:
- needs a strategy for infrastructure (Buy PCs vs Lease PCs vs "go Cloud")
- evaluate cloud solutions as "cloud" becomes very popular
This needs to be done in 1-2 month time frame.
Recommendation needs to be presented to Simon.
Pilot should be conducted if necessary (moving selected user group into cloud).
Should be done in coordination/participation of MT vendor.
[edit] History and Misc Notes
- Paul/Michael conducted research comparing costs of Buy vs Lease vs some cloud solutions. See attachments in mantis 3000. This could be re-used.
- Rackspace recommended desktone.com solution. I suggest to consider that as an option.
- Detailed requirements needs to be carefully gathered: files sharing, application, etc.
- Partial cloud solution could be considered. Say moving files into cloud but leaving Quick books in house.
- Total cost must be considered and compared.
- Excellent internet connection is important for many cloud solutions. Do we have one? Can we get one?
- There are many flavors of cloud
All services/applications needs to be considered:
Ops:
- CT2 [FFox] (already in the cloud)
- Sugar [ffox]
- MS Office
- Adobe pdf reader/writer
- Scanning / scan files folders
- shared files
Acc:
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Execs:
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Sales:
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Partial cloud solution could be:
- host files in Dropbox
- replace MS Office with google docs or Open Office
Windows could be replaced with Ubuntu (free, lower requirements for memory, cute name )
Some business/contingency requirements for cloud:
- on snow day users can work from home
- disaster - data is safe + jag ops can continue working
Backup solution could be simpler if we migrate to cloud. What would it be?
Do we want other offices to migrate? When? How cloud in NY will affect other offices ?
[edit] Detailed Requirements
TBD
