Your Network's Not Ready for E-Commerce
A first-time e-commerce project manager informs management that after due diligence, package selection and integration, enabling the company's Web site for e-commerce will take six months and cost approximately $400,000. He then notes that the only thing left to do is to inform the network group. But what can the network group really add to the project, he wonders? Maybe a new T1 line? Well, he has already budgeted for that, to the tune of $1,000 per month and 30-days' notice to install. All in all, he anticipates no problems. CMP Network Computing
ReadBecoming A Master Of The Obvious
OK. By a show of hands, who of you out there has a valid disaster-recovery plan? Forget it--I probably wouldn't believe you even if I could see your hands. A recent Network Computing E-Mail Poll showed that more than 40 percent of you have small (less than 24 ports) populations of dial-in ports. What's more, the E-Mail Poll indicated that you're in no rush to outsource these ports. Let's extrapolate that number, for the purpose of discussion, assuming the number of WAN connections, voice and fax lines are all proportional. More than likely, you've come to the conscious, or unconscious, decision that you can't afford resilience to the point of nonstop networking or a standby disaster recovery site. If this is you're decision, it's time to reexamine it. I know--you're past the point of waking up in a cold sweat wondering if a flood or a riot will take you out of business, but, the fact is, an affordable disaster-recovery site strategy may already be well within your reach. CMP Network Computing
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