The Ordering Process

The ordering process is quite possibly the most frustrating part of the entire deployment. Not only do you have to figure out the excruciating details of your every hardware and software need, you also have to make sure all of the hardware and software are compatible with each other.

A typical server network requires a wide variety of hardware and software, including servers, memory, disk drives, CPU modules, Ethernet cables, SCSI cables, tape drives, tape cartridges, serial adapters, routers, switches, firewalls, operating systems, database software, and communications lines—and that's just a partial list. In a larger environment, ordering all of this hardware and software can be quite a task. Miss even the slightest detail, ...

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