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Our Infrastructure Technologies Champion for 2010 is no stranger to writing for ILTA. Dean Leung has written numerous articles that provide additional insight and details on his successes with infrastructure changes and upgrades.
offices, with QoS services to prioritize traffic. VoIP and videoconferencing was then layered on top of this new network to provide a common phone, voicemail and conferencing system. Phase 2 saw the
Article: Cost-Effective
Virtualization – From Desktop to Data Center
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Google Apps – Software-as-a-Service Ready for Prime Time?
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Keeping It Current – A Case Study in Building Voice and Data Communications
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Revisiting Disaster Recovery in a
Virtualized Environment
consolidation of core services to a centralized and fully virtualized primary and backup data center to better leverage the use of capital in the server room. WAN accelerators were implemented to further enhance and equalize performance between offices. Phase 3 included the
Article: Citrix Versus Terminal Services – An Overview
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development and implementation of the existing infrastructure, the firm had distributed data centers in every office running on bare metal servers with offices interconnected via VPN links. Phone systems were PBX-based with no interconnectivity. Phase 1 involved the implementation of a MPLS network with backup VPN links between major
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implementation of the disaster recovery/business continuity plan. In our initial disaster recovery/business continuity plan, we used built-in and rudimentary tools. This was followed up with the design and implementation of a high-end plan that utilized a storage, replication
and failover infrastructure designed by NetApp and VMware to work together. Because DR/BC is an insurance policy, it was a challenge to show users any immediate benefit from the expenditure. However, because of a well-thought- out technology plan and the ability to leverage the infrastructure from past projects to minimize the costs,
