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warewols@hotmail.com

2006-07-19, 1:13 am

I need to write a document to justify why we need a vpn at our company,
and it seems that I have hit a little bit of writers block. I have
come up with a few good reasons, but I feel that I need more to
convince my management of the benefits. I need to make a conviencing
arguement so that they can and will take it to finance for final
approval. So far I have wrote about how it will improve response time
when a server is having issues, we can reboot servers remotely, we can
upgrade/patch the servers remotely, our desktop support team can help
users durning off hours remotely...

Simon

2006-07-19, 1:13 am

warewols@hotmail.com wrote:
> I need to write a document to justify why we need a vpn at our company,
> and it seems that I have hit a little bit of writers block. I have
> come up with a few good reasons, but I feel that I need more to
> convince my management of the benefits. I need to make a conviencing
> arguement so that they can and will take it to finance for final
> approval. So far I have wrote about how it will improve response time
> when a server is having issues, we can reboot servers remotely, we can
> upgrade/patch the servers remotely, our desktop support team can help
> users durning off hours remotely...
>

It allows employees to access the company network from home, ideal for
home workers or those who need to do that bit of extra work out of hours.
moncho

2006-07-19, 7:27 am


<warewols@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1153275167.474541.55460@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
>I need to write a document to justify why we need a vpn at our company,
> and it seems that I have hit a little bit of writers block. I have
> come up with a few good reasons, but I feel that I need more to
> convince my management of the benefits. I need to make a conviencing
> arguement so that they can and will take it to finance for final
> approval. So far I have wrote about how it will improve response time
> when a server is having issues, we can reboot servers remotely, we can
> upgrade/patch the servers remotely, our desktop support team can help
> users durning off hours remotely...


Did you mention the improved security for remote access clients and workers?

moncho


DigitalVinyl

2006-07-21, 7:12 pm

warewols@hotmail.com wrote:

>I need to write a document to justify why we need a vpn at our company,
>and it seems that I have hit a little bit of writers block. I have
>come up with a few good reasons, but I feel that I need more to
>convince my management of the benefits. I need to make a conviencing
>arguement so that they can and will take it to finance for final
>approval. So far I have wrote about how it will improve response time
>when a server is having issues, we can reboot servers remotely, we can
>upgrade/patch the servers remotely, our desktop support team can help
>users durning off hours remotely...



As part of the CEO-jerks-off-business proposal of disaster recovery.
When people can't get to work because of weather, transit strikes, or
religious freaks & unibombers killing people, workers can get some of
their work done at home. Simpliest solution is to couple with remote
control of their desktops to provide all access without dealing with
software and support issues at home. Citrix is a option ($$$) too.

Provide long distance support from far flung consultants improving the
worker pool (geography matters less).

(Disaster Recovery is one of the most wasteful proposal in the history
of business, next to outsourcing. Everybody screams they need it,
nobody will pay for it, everybody claims they are prepared, and the
people who actually have a clue how to pull it off get ignored because
D.R. Committees are filled with the useless so they can seem
productive and important. I am currently involved in a D.R. plan at a
major Univ and the thing is devolving into a puppet show so the CIO
might be able to claim something is in place. Quite sad. Of course
they have trouble runnign the place day to day-so planning for long
term disaster is funny. They've been working on a DR plan since 1998.
Nothing in place yet.
DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email)
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