Good one.
I run into very similar situations.
Focus purely on cash cost of maintenance of older stuff vs newer stuff.
Quote reputable sources like Gartner Group, etc...
Get a little familiar with ITIL in terms of like cycle.
Its very daunting to convince companies to spend money but if you frame your Power Point, Project presentations around road A costs this much, road B costs that much, you pick, then mebbe good things will happen.
Another thing my mom has instilled is that "you catch more bees with honey".
I have a tendency to sound like I am preaching and I am not, in fact my motto is "I dunno shizzle".
But I just want to emphasize the pain that I run into this all the time and some times succeed, I pretend to be a CFO/bean counter with the attitude "if it ain't broke, why replace it", which is valid if you think of it.
On Oct 9, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Shawn Everett wrote:
Hi Guys,
I have a client who hopes to keep their server another 5 years making it 10 years old at that time.
At this point there are no plans to add new infrastructure or a new server to the mix. Their business model is fairly static.
I'd like to see them upgrade. Can anyone suggest specific reasons why running a business on 10 year old equipment is a bad thing?
Specific arguments I can think of would be:
- Hard/Impossible to find replacement hardware
- Lack of support for both H/W and S/W
- Possibly unable to run current versions of CentOS
- Higher probability of hardware failures over time
- Performance bottlenecks
Any other thoughts?
Shawn
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