Anybody bought any HP EPYC Servers recently?

Bouton Aide said:
ouch!
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It's never going to be that cheap something like this but it's still less than it would have cost even just to buy the servers for a vdi solution let alone licensing etc. Plus then what do I do when we get an office back? A balancing act!
 
Vince said:
They are in fact users desktops. The reason they are in here is we had to give up our office for the moment. The problem... well when we go back to an office we need machines and we need to be able to move pretty quickly. But what we also want is some flexibility, with a full vdi solution we could have done this but at what cost? We needed to keep the costs and running cheap while we ride this out and work out what we want to do. At current estimations when would you send your staff back to a central london office? This is a short term solution to a big problem. Also it's not all vpn we have rds so they have options. RDS, VPN, Run everything remote because we have our dms and email exposed to the web. It's all about offering working flexibility.

The remote desktops allow for people to run multiple screens their side without putting any strain on the core. I dunno there are many ways to do this but how do you quickly transition in the space of 3 weeks to having an office to not having one? This is the question.
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What's the intention, as soon as an office opens up, you whip them out of the rack and hand them to the respective users to set up on a desk?

Do the staff not have laptops? You're probably about on par cost wise with buying them versus buying a laptop for each member of staff - although would mean less play time for you (aka less faff cabling/racking them up :p).
 
Semple said:
What's the intention, as soon as an office opens up, you whip them out of the rack and hand them to the respective users to set up on a desk?

Do the staff not have laptops? You're probably about on par cost wise with buying them versus buying a laptop for each member of staff - although would mean less play time for you (aka less faff cabling/racking them up :p).
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Every staff member also has a laptop although have to remote in as certain legacy stuff wont work over wan/vpn - Namely our case management tools. Everybody has a new ryzen 4500u probook x360 - Nice machines!

The IT team are all running HP envy's. Weirdly we were on Spectres but we all went with the ryzen based 4700u machines this year and the spectre line is just not compelling with Intel Inside.

I try to keep people off of local machines where possible as we work with a lot of sensitive data so working by logging into a remote desktop and locking the ability to pull stuff local for certain user groups allows us to keep a level of control.
 
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