3yr / 5yr Lifespan?

ruffneck · 29 Oct 2008 at 11:15

For business critical hardware?

I'm having a bit of a dispute at work over the lifetime the directors want out of the server room. Now giving the costs of extending warranties after the 3yr period vs cost of new hardware/warranties plus the added bonus its new hardware!. My argument is that a 5yr lifetime would be a false economy.

Your thoughts?

ruffneck · 31 Oct 2008 at 09:01

Tomsk said:
Does that cost analysis include new OS licences?

unfortunately, yes.

ruffneck · 31 Oct 2008 at 09:59

I'm talking about the application servers running business critical databases, the domain controllers and the exchange servers.

ruffneck · 2 Nov 2008 at 13:56

Burnsy2023 said:
How much money would the company lose in a total disaster scenario where the DCs all died and you had to bring new servers in and recover AD etc?

so your looking at half a day if not a full days downtime on a 50 million pound a year turnover

ruffneck · 2 Nov 2008 at 14:32

Burnsy2023 said:
Exactly. Do the maths and suddenly a 3 year replacement policy doesn't seem that expensive.

my point exactly, even with the figures on paper. Its like getting blood from a stone trying to convince them!! :mad: