My company Fiserv Incorparated is using Windows server for network operations but those windows servers are not installed with all patches and updates. Now looking at the current network configuration it can been clealy said that seeing the growth of the organization the network needs to be upgraded before the network collapses. Seeing the current network , the company’s and client’s confidential data seems to be at risk.
In order to upgrade a network, proper site survey needs to be carried out which includes all the necessary information about the organization’s current business and the projected growth of the same. This is done to accurately determine the current as well as the future network requirements of the company. …show more content…
In order to update complete network system in the Fiserv Incorparated it would take around 2 years and will cost around $75 million. As the company has muliiply offices and multiply states it would take 3 years to setup a whole new network in the company and making Four Data Centers (John’s Creek, GA; Phoenix, AZ; Lewisville, TX; and Irving, Tx), Corprate Office, and two major offices as our main hub locations, The John’s Creek and Phoenix Data Center will house the production servers and making the Lewisville Data Center as the disaster recovery location in case a disaster happens at one of the other Data Centers so not to affecting the customers and emplyee’s work load, it would be better to setup DR servers (Disaster recovery). Devlopment server will be housed in the Irving, TX Data Center. There would be four phases of this as follows: …show more content…
Earlier the organization had only one option i.e., to insource their netwrok security and that was very hectic for them as it doubled their efforts, although insource is perceived control, internal accountability, and tailor solution to internal situation. Whereas nowadays there are service providers which provides network security to the organizations. Pros of outsourcing network security are it is cost effective, focus on core business, leverage security experts and leverage complaince.
When company grows rapidly, the network that supported the company often can’t keep pace with expansion. Employees may not realize about the importance of proper plan for the network upgrades. In most of the cases, organizations may simply add various network connection technologies, hardware,of varying quality to simply boost up the network with the growth in the business but oten this type of upgradation causes degradation in the quality of network and so this should have to be done very carefully and with proper