[windows2000] OT: IT-budgeting and PHBs - Long (Was: Can't DCs be ghosted??)
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <sorin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 14:28:31 +0100
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 04:22:28 -0800, Charles R. Buchanan wrote:
>Personally I think your boss needs his/her head examined. :-O I take it
>that there is way more than 5000USD worth of equipment in there, correct?
>Also just how much money will be lost if that equipment has a massive
>failure (heat related)? How much would the company have to spend to replace
>the equipment and how much money will be lost productivity wise? Sounds like
>5000 dollars isn't all that much after all IMO. :-)
It's like this: Our department is doing pharmaceutical drug
discovery research. The überboss (not the boss I sort under, who is
in fact quite understanding and nice) has made it clear that this
department will not under any circumstance spend more money on IT
than on the actual research being done. Period. My hands are tied.
Being the largest, the most advanced and the most successfull (it's
open for disscussion...) non-commercial pharmacautical department
in
Uppsala, and maybe in Sweden, the leading ppl of our department
think we also have a heritage to honour. This means that IT is
secondary, or even further down. After all, research has
been done here for over 50 years, and it's only since I began as a
sysadmin a few years back, the IT-revolution really took off. Maybe
exploded is a better description... When I first started in autumn
2000, there were three or four shared computers on 30-40
PhD-students and lecturers
in a *sometimes* working workgroup. No we have AD, working
backup-systems, a client-server network, working e-mail, IT-support
and helpdesk and a server downtime of less than about one hour per
month
(it's windows after all 8-) compared to a week or so downtime per
month from before. Needless to say, the expansion has gone very
quickly, and I hope that it's only a temporary resistance to IT.
The professor who is the überboss and holds the money is to be
retired in five years or so. Until then, as I said before, my hands
are tied. I've also tried to speak to him directly about high
initial costs, but that it now some three years after the
IT-evolution start,
the cost-curve is levelling out, or is even going down. Doesn't
help. He/they are still in the belief that research is only done in
a fume hood and in the lab... 8-/
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Sorin Srbu
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:38 PM
>>To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [windows2000] Re: Can't DCs be ghosted??
>>
>>
>
>>If you have that much hardware, running without AC is insane.
>>Can't you get
>>>them to cut a hole in the wall for a $300 unit or redo some of
>>the AC ducts
>>>to cover the server room?
>>
>>Asked about this, but no. Forbidden. Rerouting some AC ducts from a
>>cold room nearby is USD 5000. I'm screwed either way. It's probably
>>the landlord's way of saying "if you want AC, you better pay the
>>whole thing, even though it's a no-brainer to reroute the ducts".
>>What can I say... 8-/
BW,
Sorin
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