Need advice on how to make case to upper management for IT purchases
Our server are old and failing...I need to find ways to make a presentation to upper management to validate the need for purchasing new hardware and software and services.
How do I go about putting this together, does anyone have templates or examples or experience doing this.
Our SharePoint Server is 12 years old, our email server is 9 years old...we don't have failover....we don't have adequate backup.
I asked for funds today to purchase services today to have a well known company host our email and replicate it to our onsite server so that it would provide failover, continuity and disaster recovery for our email.
I was shot down....and told no, but we will reconsider if you can make a presentation laying out in detail why you think we need it, but be prepare to be grilled and answer all our questions and we will have lots of questions.
Our president has a "wait till it breaks" philosophy. I'm open for suggestion on how to successfully deal with a mindset like this....short of leaving and getting another job.
How do I go about putting this together, does anyone have templates or examples or experience doing this.
Our SharePoint Server is 12 years old, our email server is 9 years old...we don't have failover....we don't have adequate backup.
I asked for funds today to purchase services today to have a well known company host our email and replicate it to our onsite server so that it would provide failover, continuity and disaster recovery for our email.
I was shot down....and told no, but we will reconsider if you can make a presentation laying out in detail why you think we need it, but be prepare to be grilled and answer all our questions and we will have lots of questions.
Our president has a "wait till it breaks" philosophy. I'm open for suggestion on how to successfully deal with a mindset like this....short of leaving and getting another job.
Dave Baldwin
Cost of failure is about the only thing that is convincing. Although in this case, if the business depends on servers and software that can't be replaced because they are no longer available or supported, you might want to point that out to them.
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That's good advice but this guy is "I'll worry about the cost when it breaks...we'll just get a new one".
I can't get the obvious across that the data gets lost with the dead server....it doesn't come bundled with the new server....
How do I protect myself and my reputation...I can't afford to quit and if something goes wrong it will of course be "my fault".
I can't get the obvious across that the data gets lost with the dead server....it doesn't come bundled with the new server....
How do I protect myself and my reputation...I can't afford to quit and if something goes wrong it will of course be "my fault".
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I like that answer...that's very good advice...gives be some proper steps to take.
Please don't laugh when I tell you this, but there is no IT budget. I don't get a budget. I beg for stuff when stuff breaks. I'm not kidding....there is no forecast, no budget for IT.
Please don't laugh when I tell you this, but there is no IT budget. I don't get a budget. I beg for stuff when stuff breaks. I'm not kidding....there is no forecast, no budget for IT.
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That Microsoft site is great! That is just what I was looking for on the software...does Dell have anything like this for servers and hardware?
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Dell has an EOL (end of life) schedule for all their equipment. Best to ask your dell sales rep. If you do not have one, get setup with one. They can answer these types of questions.
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Thanks. We do have a Dell rep, I will ask him tomorrow when I tell him I that the quote he sent me got shot down.