Who works in Enterprise IT

Felix said:
Been in IT for over 5 years and never seen or heard of a Google Box before.

Did it actually help the school or was it a waste of funds?
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Had it been used properly it would have been a document finding Godsend. However SMT didn't lead the project well and it was a £2K box that sat in the rack. Nice kit though...
 
the_chicco said:
EqualLogic certainly have their place but I think Compellent are very hot on their heels and their package is ultimately better all round in my opinion. I do wish however that they get some 'proper' designers in to do the fascia's and the whole 'look' of the unit. It's terribly unprofessional when the SAN turns up and you unbox it to find a Supermicro Xeon based controller and god awful disk shelves ;) Proof is in the pudding however and it put out some excellent performance figures.
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Compellent are certainly a viable competitor, however at the end of the day, they are just a white box vendor. There's minimal IP in their storage system.

Its horses for corses at the end of the day :D
 
Shaz]sigh[;11738230 said:
Not so sure about that. There's rumours Intel want VMWare.
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Intel own a shedload of VMware due to them scooping shares last year (think it was close to 20%). EMC won't let VMware go anytime soon as it's the only major part of its business that's pulling in stupid amounts of revenue (aside from mahoosive Symmetrix & Centerra deals).
 
Been hearing the buzzword enterprise IT pop up a lot lately, i am at a bit of a crossroads employment wise

I am 24 and in very stable job, i basically build images to be deployed across the network for one of the bigger UK uni's but am looking to up my pay as uni's dont really pay all that much (although the pension is fantastic).
There is a option rescently of going into networks (looking after wired and wireless infrastructure mainly Cisco), where i could leave with a cisco certification (30k p yr)

I was just wondering if there was any money in Enterprise IT, and what i would need to do to realisticly have a chance of getting into it.
But database development seems to be pretty lucrative too

I have a BSC which i finished part time last week, so dont know the grade but dissertation permiting i think i have a first

Any advice is much appreciated
 
Worked in IT for almost 10 years.

Work for a large multi as an MS Sys Admin in a back office team and responsible for 70 servers (which is growing quickly) covering North America to Australasia and all continents between.

Responsible globally for Directory Services and Messaging (Exchange) monitoring, support, implementations, design, planing, documentation and low-level consultancy. Tend work lots on domain migrations for companies which my org brings 'on board' and extends our services to.

Lots of travel both UK and abroad, off to Chicago shortly.
 
mr.bond said:
Worked in IT for almost 10 years.

Work for a large multi as an MS Sys Admin in a back office team and responsible for 70 servers (which is growing quickly) covering North America to Australasia and all continents between.

Responsible globally for Directory Services and Messaging (Exchange) monitoring, support, implementations, design, planing, documentation and low-level consultancy. Tend work lots on domain migrations for companies which my org brings 'on board' and extends our services to.

Lots of travel both UK and abroad, off to Chicago shortly.
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Want a contractor ?
 
Not at the moment. What contractors we do use tend not to be for the MS platform (I'm guessing that's what you do - sorry not read all the posts).

We only seem to get contractors for specialsed short-term needs (oracle, dev work etc). Although you never know in the future I suppose.

Thanks for the interest anyhow.
 
Ah you must know Mr Morrell and Mac etc.

I worked on it last year and work for WCI etc. Small world..

How do you find the 4 days on 4 days off 11 hour shifts etc?

I do miss it..

I understand the DC has moved to Basingstoke etc. How did that go?
 
Goatyman said:
... my knowledge of HP offices in the UK is limited to bracknell ....
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hey I used to work at HP in Bracknell!! small world!

Anyway I'm working in the projects team for an IT outsourcing company who recently became part of Computacentre.

Currently doing a large infrastructure refresh for a client with ESX... :)
 
I am a network engineer for a global telecoms company in the M4 corridor area. Have to dabble in pretty much everything but currently specializing in Virtualization, high perfomance networking and the tie in between them. I spend allot of time customer facing leaving limited time for hands on stuff. Got my VCP quite a while ago and do a fair amount of work with ESX.
 
Another HP employee here!

I've not posted here in over a year but was a regular poster for over 3 years before that. I can't believe that so many of the old names that I still recognise work for HP too!

I'm based from Bracknell in the C&I business, i'm a virtualisation specialist working in the Microsoft practice.

Really is a small world!
 
Shaz]sigh[;11738230 said:
Not so sure about that. There's rumours Intel want VMWare.
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Everyone wants VMWare. Intel bought a 2.5 stake in VMWare right at the start of the limited IPO. Cisco then bought a 1.6% stake.

EMC wont sell VMWare. They may sell off a little more, but wont sell it outright.
 
Depends what happens really. EMC are aiming to be amongst the big boys when it comes to turning over pure profit.

The hypervisor/virtualised server market is going to become commodotised very soon with Hyper-V. As soon as MS get the right tools/functionality out of the door, VMWare should worry.

That leaves the other HUGE market, VDI.

At the moment, XenDesktop annihilates VMWare VDI....

Stranger things have happened.
 
I think VMware is so prevalent in the market right now that neither Xen or Microsoft will catch up....at least not effectively.

It's not just the case of a better product, Vmware is present in tens of thousands of companies in production environments today and is the basis for most business virtualisation. Think of a company and good chance is they have deployed VMWare. It's now a standard (and those are not changed without good reason - having a faster GUI of a 200mb network connection is a moot point!). It also has the backing of one of the biggest tech/software companies out there.

With regards to Microsoft - they try and get in on every piece of pie, but like the database market has shown....they can huff and puff but they don't always knock many doors down...even when they give it away.
 
It all depends on the offering of Hyper-V within the next two years.

Think of an IT dept justifying the opex of VMWare when Server 2008 (which incidentally they've just convinced the business to roll to) is happily sitting there with Hyper-V waiting to be utilised. Could be difficult.

Server 2008 hasn't really taken off at the moment, but with lifecycle management and when XenApp 5.0 gets released (read, Server 2008 terminal services support) things will undoubtedly get moving.

When it comes to commoditisation, Microsoft are the daddies and with both them and Citrix working together in the virtualisation market, it's potentially there for the taking.

Also worthy of note is that EMC are one of the most despised companies in the business. Yes, Joe Tucci is turning them around and they are a behemoth but... y'know, it sticks.

I'm all for VMWare VI, it's an amazing product set but it's not an institution. If I can save ~4k per host on licensing and support I will.
 
Vanilla said:
With regards to Microsoft - they try and get in on every piece of pie, but like the database market has shown....they can huff and puff but they don't always knock many doors down...even when they give it away.
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Yeah...
Exchange Direct Push was claiming to be the Blackberry killer.
Each version of Terminal Services is supposed to worry Citrix.

RIM and Citrix are still doing pretty well.
 
oddjob62 said:
Yeah...
Exchange Direct Push was claiming to be the Blackberry killer.
Each version of Terminal Services is supposed to worry Citrix.

RIM and Citrix are still doing pretty well.
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This is the very same argument I use every day when justifying the maturity of the ESX platform.

A good point, well made!
 
Vanilla said:
I think VMware is so prevalent in the market right now that neither Xen or Microsoft will catch up....at least not effectively.
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Thats what i heard Novell people saying 15 years ago...

Not saying that VMware will stand still, but they can't afford to be complacent.
 
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