Budgeting Questions


How has your company handled the 80/20 IT budget dilemma?
As the pace for new technology continues to increase, many organizations are becoming frustrated with the inflexibility of their IT budgets. Many companies spend about 80% of their budget on maintaining existing applications, leaving only 20% for new projects. How has your company handled the 80/20 IT budget dilemma? Is it more flexible when it [...]

Answer Question   |  December 13, 2012  7:30 PM
Budgeting, Emerging technologies, Technology
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11,410 pts.

I’m looking for some TCO/TCA data to help support my proposed budget.
Im looking for some TCO/TCA data to help support my proposed budget. Can you provide some talking points here and direct me to some case studies online? This question is from the Microsoft Virtualization Live Chat which took place on August 27th.

Answer Question   |  September 16, 2009  9:14 PM
Budgeting, Microsoft virtualization, TCO/TCA
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Telecom Integration
What type of issues do you have regarding telecom and IT integration? For those who also are stuck with telecom management in addition to IT functions what type of processes do you use to manage this function?

Answer Question   |  January 3, 2007  11:14 AM
Budgeting, Mobile, Outsourcing, Project management, Vendors, VoIP, Wireless
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802.11 vs 802.16
I have a small co. with a point to point wireless grid. I handle off site monitoring of gas nad oil flow. I have been overlaping my grid with new locations, and more to come. So I have been looking into new wireless Sys. I have made the choice to use All-In-One?360 Multi-Band/Multi-Mode Antenna WiMAX [...]

Answer Question   |  August 16, 2006  8:30 PM
Arrays, Availability, Bandwidth, Billing and customer care, Billing Support Systems, Budgeting, Cabling, Compliance, CRM, DataCenter, Development, DHCP, DNS, Ethernet, Frame Relay, Hardware, Hubs, Laws, Network applications management, Network management software, Network protocols, Network testing, Networking, Networking services, Outsourcing, Project management, Regulations, ROI & cost justification, Routers, Servers, standards, Storage servers, Switches, Vendors, VoIP, Web services, Web Services Standards, Wireless
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Implementing RUP in Retail business which runs on i-Series
A retail company is planning to implement IBM Rational Unified Process for its business which runs on i-Series. Please let me know how well RUP can be implemented here. How well RUP works for i-Series software development? What are the tailoring to be done to this process for i-Series? Also, please comment on the RUP [...]

Answer Question   |  July 24, 2006  7:21 AM
Application development, AS/400, Automated, Budgeting, Business/IT alignment, Career development, Compliance, DataCenter, Development, Functional, Laws, Lifecycle development, Performance/Load, Project management, Regulations, ROI & cost justification, RPG, RPGLE, Software Quality Assurance, Software testing, Software testing tools, standards, Vendors
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Opinions about firewalls and VPN
I currently have watchguard firewalls and IPSec tunnels between them and the other watchguard firewalls. We also have remote users VPN into the firewall for access to our network. Our firewalls are fine but we haven’t been that happy with the support over the last 5 or so years. We are joining together with another [...]

Answer Question   |  June 28, 2006  9:56 AM
Active Directory, Application security, Budgeting, Cabling, Cisco, Database, Dell, Desktops, DHCP, DNS, Encryption, Exchange, Firewalls, Forensics, Foundry, Hardware, Hubs, Incident response, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Juniper Networks, Management, Microsoft Windows, Network security, Networking, Networking services, OS, Project management, Routers, Secure Coding, Security, Servers, SQL Server, Switches, VPN, Wireless
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10Gbps backbone
hi i need some help completing a uni assignment. i have a 10Gb SMF cable backbone and i need to connect to a router that supports this. it also need to interface with the rest of the LAN, cat5e cable. i cant seem to find anything viable. any suggestions??

Answer Question   |  June 8, 2006  4:56 AM
3Com, Avaya, Budgeting, Cabling, Cisco, Dell, Enterasys, Foundry, Hardware, Hewlett-Packard, Hubs, Juniper Networks, Lucent, Networking, Nortel, Project management, Routers, Switches
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Network Resource Allocation cum Planning cum Technical Problem
This is the real commercial problem face by my company. Well, the reason I ask this problem is I salute and respect all of you as I believe all of you are as good as network solution company out there, or even better!! Lets me rephrase the entire problem again. Company expand so fast that [...]

Answer Question   |  May 22, 2006  10:17 AM
3Com, Access, Access control, Active Directory, Altiris, Application security, Availability, Avaya, backdoors, Bandwidth, Benchmarking, Bind, Biometrics, BMC, Browsers, Budgeting, Business/IT alignment, Cabling, Career development, Cisco, Compliance, Computer Associates, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, DataCenter, DB2, Dell, Desktop management applications, Desktops, DHCP, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, DNS, E-business, Encryption, Enterasys, Enterprise Desktop, Ethernet, Exchange, Fault isolation, FDDI, filtering, Firewalls, Forensics, Foundry, Frame Relay, General Directories, H.323, Hacking, Hardware, Hewlett-Packard, Hubs, human factors, IBM, IBM/Tivoli, Identity & Access Management, Incident response, Instant Messaging, Intel, Interoperability, InterSystems, Intrusion management, IPv4, IPv6, Juniper Networks, LANDesk, Laws, LDAP, Linux, Lotus Domino, Lucent, Management, Marimba, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Operations Manager, Microsoft Systems Management Server, Microsoft Windows, MPLS, MySQL, NetBIOS, Network applications management, Network management software, Network monitoring, Network protocols, Network security, Network testing, Networking, Networking services, NFS, Nortel, Novell, Novell IPX/SPX, Novell NDS, Online transaction processing, Oracle, OS, Partner facing, Patch management, patching, PEN testing, Performance management, Ping, Platform Security, Policies, Project management, Protocol analysis, provisioning, Regulations, Remote management, Risk management, ROI & cost justification, Routers, Secure Coding, Security, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Servers, Single sign-on, SIP, Software, Spyware, SQL, SQL Server, SSL/TLS, standards, Storage, Switches, Sybase, Systems management software, TCP, Tech support, Trojans, Unisys, Vector Networks, Vendors, Viruses, VPN, vulnerability management, Web security, WINS, Wireless, worms
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5 pts.

Design NEW network cum NEW IT infrastructure-2
Company expand so fast that the IT infrastructure is not fast enough to cater high volume of traffic; the initial design is not scalable. The number of new branch offices setup caused the company pay a high price in the leased line communication. Salesman and management staffs dial into company networks via 56K modem to [...]

Answer Question   |  May 17, 2006  8:21 AM
3Com, Access control, Application security, Availability, Avaya, backdoors, Bandwidth, Benchmarking, Biometrics, Browsers, Budgeting, Business/IT alignment, Cabling, Cisco, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, Dell, DHCP, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Encryption, Enterasys, Exchange, Fault isolation, filtering, Firewalls, Forensics, Foundry, Hacking, Hardware, Hewlett-Packard, Hubs, human factors, Identity & Access Management, Incident response, Instant Messaging, Interoperability, Intrusion management, Juniper Networks, Lucent, Network applications management, Network management software, Network monitoring, Network security, Network testing, Networking, Networking services, Nortel, patching, PEN testing, Performance management, Ping, Platform Security, Policies, Protocol analysis, provisioning, Remote management, Risk management, Routers, Secure Coding, Security, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Servers, Single sign-on, Software, Spyware, SSL/TLS, Switches, TCP, Tech support, Trojans, Vendors, Viruses, VPN, vulnerability management, Web security, Wireless, worms
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5 pts.

route mail with fax service in sbs 2003
i have a sbs 2003 on my network and i configure him to get all the fax of my company, the only problem is that when i configure him to route all the incoming fax to some mail it does not seem to work, i check the event log and i get error 32083 and [...]

Answer Question   |  April 27, 2006  3:30 PM
Access, Access control, AIM, Application security, Availability, backdoors, Backup & recovery, Bandwidth, Biometrics, Brightmail, Browsers, Budgeting, Business/IT alignment, Career development, CipherTrust, ClearSwift, CLP, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Data analysis, Database, DataCenter, Desktops, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Encryption, Ethernet, Exchange, Exchange security, FDDI, filtering, Firewalls, Forensics, Frame Relay, Hacking, human factors, Identity & Access Management, Incident response, Instant Messaging, Intrusion management, Laws, Management, McAfee, MessageLabs, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Network protocols, Network security, Networking, OS, Outsourcing, Patch management, patching, PEN testing, Performance management, Ping, Platform Security, Policies, Postini, Project management, provisioning, Regulations, Risk management, Rockliffe, ROI & cost justification, Secure Coding, Security, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Servers, Single sign-on, Spam, SpamAssassin, Spyware, SQL Server, SSL/TLS, standards, Storage, Symantec, TrendMicro, Trojans, Vendors, Viruses, VPN, vulnerability management, Web development, Web security, Web services, Web Services Standards, Wireless, worms
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Event ID 13508 in microsoft windwos 2000 server
Hi all I have a three servers with windows 2000 (service pack4 ) and its running active directory and DNS also. My global catalog server (PDC) am calling as server ?A? , others are server ?B? and server ?C?. These are two servers are acting as BDCs. One of the BDC?s Hard disk was crashed [...]

Answer Question   |  April 4, 2006  9:44 AM
Availability, Bandwidth, Benchmarking, Budgeting, Business/IT alignment, Career development, Compliance, DataCenter, Desktops, Fault isolation, Firewalls, Forensics, Incident response, Intrusion management, Laws, Management, Microsoft Windows, Network applications management, Network management software, Network monitoring, Network security, Network testing, Networking, OS, Outsourcing, Patch management, Performance management, Ping, Project management, Protocol analysis, Regulations, Remote management, ROI & cost justification, Security, Servers, SQL Server, standards, Storage, Vendors, VPN, Wireless
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can an outsider to all of your industries trigger a positive reaction from you?
Over the last two years I have conducted research into the use of Autonomy IDOL’s and DRE’s along with Softsound’s technology to allow voice control of services including automatic transcription (Although I have started fancying Nuance as a better contender for the voice to text side of this ‘kit’) which then leads to a raft [...]

Answer Question   |  December 7, 2005  8:25 PM
Budgeting, Compliance, DataCenter, Laws, Outsourcing, Project management, Regulations, Remote management, ROI & cost justification, standards, Vendors
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Cisco 7606 Vs. the compitition, Foundry XMR series or other.
My company is looking to purchase a new router, we are looking at expanding our cable tv division down the road with video/ video on demand and need to upgrade our current router due to bandwidth constraints, my question is does anyone have a different router good or bad. All answers are welcome and encouraged. [...]

Answer Question   |  December 2, 2005  9:22 AM
Availability, Bandwidth, Budgeting, Business/IT alignment, Cabling, Cisco, DataManagement, Foundry, Hardware, Hubs, Networking, Nortel, Project management, ROI & cost justification, Routers, Storage, Switches, Vendors
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15 pts.

Would like your two cents about the value of vendor content during research phase
Hello. I am the director of the tech encyclopedia WhatIs.com and am looking for some real life stories (and personal opinions) about the value of vendor-created content. The information you share will be used in a WhatIs.com newsletter. I’m especially interested in learning how useful vendor content is in the research phase of your quest [...]

Answer Question   |  June 2, 2008  5:14 PM
Budgeting, Project management, ROI & cost justification, Vendors
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225 pts.

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checklist for moving datacenter
Hello. Our company have a plan to move datacenter in a month and my boss ordered me to make out the plan for it. But I don’t know how to do it, especially I have no idea about what I should check for moving datacenter. Help me! How can I get the process, checklist…. for [...]

Answer Question   |  January 9, 2012  10:30 AM
Budgeting, Cabling, DataCenter, Power management, Project management, Remote management, ROI & cost justification, standards, Thermal controls, Updates from SearchDataCenter staff
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