[CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure
aurfalien at gmail.com
aurfalien at gmail.com
Fri Oct 9 22:42:24 UTC 2009
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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