[ale] IT department

[George Johnson]

That is exactly what I want to do.  They want in-house servers and vpn
but I think they may be better suited having a provider run that for
them and me keep up with the changes to it until they get large enough
to have an actual computer room with all the security and power
protection.  By the way, if anyone is or is working for an IT director
that has been told to cut the budget or else these guys CAN do it.  The
bigger the number of systems there are the better the chances that more
$$ can be saved.  Let me know at that number.

I will save some of this email so I can reference it later for
assistance if needed.  Thanks to all that have offered suggestions.  I
DO listen and will consider all suggestions.

George Johnson	
Phone 678-642-7696


-----Original Message-----
From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan
To: ale at ale.org
Rickman
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 8:36 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] IT department

On Thursday 28 August 2003 08:12, George Johnson wrote:
> Actually, these guys are working out of their houses for now. There
are
> 3 of them but they have bagged some large accounts like USLec that
love
> them.  They come into an account and are acting as a go between for
> negotiating on maintenance contracts for equipment like SUN, HP, Cisco
> and the like.  They provide other services on the side and save the
> customer a large amount of $$ in the process.  They do it using the
> actual OEM's.  They also repair printers and sell hardware, usually
much
> cheaper than the likes of SUN or Cisco (their best priced hardware).
So
> I am going to need to setup a db along with the rest.
>
> This is going to be interesting and hard work.  I hope I am up to the
> challenge.

If they are truly set up as a tech consulting firm, you've got it made.
In 
most technology consulting firms, particularly smaller ones, the company
IS 
the IT department. If you have good written policies in place and
everyone 
adheres to them, you can shed the IT Director ball and chain to free up 
time to get out and generate revenue for the company. It doesn't get any

better than that.

-- 
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net


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