Home Assignment – Week 1- Vasyl Yakovishak
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Vasyl Yakovishak
Home Assignment – Week 1
Case Project 1-1: Choosing a New Operating System
Cutting Edge is a company with 122 employees who make cutting boards and a
full line of knives and knife sets for home and commercial kitchens. The company is
divided into several departments, including Development, Marketing, Business,
Manufacturing, Information Systems (IS), and Inventory and Shipping. There is also a
management team consisting of the company president, vice president, chief financial
officer, and the managers of each department. The company is housed in one building
that is fully networked. All employees have access to a desktop or laptop computer.
These computers are a mixture of Windows 10, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7
machines. At this point, there is a Windows Server 2012 (without Release 2) server in
each department, and the company is planning to gradually upgrade each server to
Windows Server 2016. The IS Department is the smallest department, consisting of four
very overworked employees. Considering the IS workload, the IS manager hires you to
help assess the server needs of the company and make recommendations for the
future.
1.
The Marketing Department uses large name and address databases for catalog and
other promotions. Some of the databases are ones they own, and others are purchased
from other catalog sales companies and from Internet companies. The databases are
currently on a Windows Server 2012 (without Release 2), Standard Edition server,
which is overloaded. When they perform sorts and queries of addresses, the computer
operates extremely slowly. Which Windows Server 2016 edition do you recommend for
them? Provide a justification for your recommendation.
I would choose Windows Storage Server 2016 because it specializes in file
server functions, organizing stores, and protecting valuable end user data and also
helps eliminate data clutter by identifying duplicate chunks in files, then storing one copy
and replacing all others with pointers. This feature not only works on duplicate files but
can also save space from files that are not identical but share many common patterns
and from files that themselves contain many repeated patterns.
2.
The Marketing Department wants to establish an Internet business to supplement
Cutting Edge’s catalog and outlet businesses. Which Windows Server 2016 system
would work for the Internet portion of the business? Be sure to justify your
recommendation.
I would recommend Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition because this
Edition provides the user with an unlimited amount of virtual machines; each license
also comes with a Hyper-V host. This server edition can also function as a network
controller, which allows the network controller to communicate with devices, services,
and other components on the network and also this edition provides support for
Shielded Virtual Machines, which provides additional protection and encryption options
for the user.
3.
Because they like stability without dramatic change, the Business Department has an
old Windows 2003 Server system and is concerned about security and reliability. To
which Windows Server 2016 edition do you recommend they upgrade? Note some
features that would be important for the Business Department.
I would recommend Windows Server 2016 Standard Edition. This edition is a
functional server operating system for users that need a robust system; this system
includes virtualization but have limits, 2 virtual machines only and also Standard Edition
gives to user Hyper-V
host
one per license to keep the server stable, Network Policy
and Access Services, Bitlocker network and drive encryption, cache branching, group
policy management, Windows Server Backup, lightweight and quick processing of
transactions due to limited virtualization.
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