Background You and your team are employed by a medium-sized IT company based in

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You and your team are employed by a medium-sized IT company based in Boston, MA. Your team has the opportunity to get a new client for a new project. The client, Coles Credit Union, is a small credit union in the Boston, MA area of the United States. They have been in business for 3 years. They have one main office, and are looking to build another branch within a 10 mile radius. They desire an overhaul of their current infrastructure (which is held in the main office location)..

Their current infrastructure consists of:

5 HP ProLiant DL360 Gen7 Servers (Xeon processors, 32 GB RAM, Ethernet connectivity) running Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit. Of these servers, 2 are domain controllers for Microsoft Active Directory, one is their web-server running IIS, one is their “monitoring server” running SolarWinds, which monitors the status of all components of their infrastructure (switches, storage server up/down status, and some hardware failure), and one is their Backup server running Symantec Backup Exec 2012. Each of these servers have two 300 GB 10K SAS 2.5” hard drives installed in a RAID 1 configuration.

2 HP ProLiant DL380 Gen7 Servers (Dual Xeon processors, 96 GB RAM, Ethernet connectivity) running Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit. Of these servers, one is an SQL Server running Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 64-bit. This server has 8 hard drives installed (two 72 GB 10K SAS 2.5” in a RAID 1 configuration for the OS, and 6 900 GB 10K SAS 2.5” hard drives installed in a RAID 50 configuration for the SQL database), and one is their Microsoft Exchange 2010 & Lync 2010 server with 8 hard drives installed (two 300 GB 10K SAS 2.5” in a RAID 1 for the OS, and 6 600 GB 10K SAS 2.5” in a RAID 50 for the Exchange & Lync software).

1 Quantum SuperLoader3 LTO5 Tape Library connected via iSCSI to the HP ProLiant DL360 Gen7 “Backup server”.

2 Cisco Catalyst 48-port 2960X Ethernet switches (both in their server room: one is connected to those 6 switches mentioned above, and the other is a spare that is currently turned off, but can be used as a backup in case the other 2960X switch goes down). All of the 7 servers are utilizing 10/100/1000 (Gigabit, 1000BASE-T) connectivity on the main 2960X Ethernet switch.

1 Cisco Catalyst 24-port 2560X Ethernet switch that connects their 10 branch terminals/systems together.

Their branch terminals/systems are HP z420 workstations (Xeon processors, 8 GB RAM) running Microsoft Windows 7 64-bt. They are great working order, with no issues reported.

All servers and terminals are running Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection.

Coles Credit Union has a 3rd-party company that takes care of physical security to the bank, as well as provides all security cameras and storage for the camera footage. They also have an ISP that provides outbound connectivity for this branch, as well as a firewall.

Objectives of this project is to:

1) Present a plan (including a proposed budget and schedule) on how to to overhaul their infrastructure, with the following required goals in mind:

a) Implement a new IDS/IPS

b) Create a new website for their customers

c) Upgrade to Microsoft Exchange 2016 and Skype for Business 2015

d) Provide more speed and capacity in their SQL Server

Explanation / Answer

Name:- Myriad Tech solutions

Mission:- To deliver top notch and above par services in the field of technology and hardware.

Vision:- Pursuit towards higher pinnacle while maintaining utmost integrity and delivering ethical business.

2. Project Plan:-

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Phase Date Description Requirement Gathering 01.01.2018 This phase would require to gather important tools that would be used in setting up of infrastructure. Feasibility analysis 02.02.2018 This phase would require to analyze the feasibility of important tools that would be used in setting up of infrastructure. Preparation of Budget 02.20.2018 This phase would require taking up the cost component & analyzing the same. The nature of impact would be taken into consideration if the tools are adapted. Project Execution 03.20.2018 After feasibilityanalysis and cost planning, entire setting up of infrastructure would take place. Each progressive step taken in order to complete the project would be documented that would be submitted to client at the end of project in order to procure feedback. Project Submission 05.20.2018 Submission of project to client Project Feedback and Appraisal 05.21.2018 Documentation of further requirements and feedbacks from clients.

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