Corporate Proposal I: Base Server and Workstation

Vincent Troiano

ITT-121

Professor McMillan

3/28/17

Corporate Proposal I: Base Server & Workstation

The organization that I ultimately picked was Protégé Inc., who specialize in training of corporation managers. Their training delivery methods are numerous; they offer on-site instructor led training, one-on-one site training, computer-based remote training, video-based training, and the option for an organization to make custom instructional & process guides. They have one location, which is based out of Tempe, AZ making it high priority for them to have a stable, and secure networking solution.

The way I chose to design their network was to double up on gateways, routers, and firewalls for redundancy in any situation that either one of these devices are to fail. For their datacenter, I will be implementing a proxy server in front of the web server for added protection. On that, proxy server, I will use burst filtering technology to further lockdown the web access further mitigating the chance for any network based internal infections. I will host multiple domain controllers on the network for redundancy, and have them tied together in a round robin configuration. These domain controllers will manage DHCP, DNS, AD and GP. Printers will be managed on a print server, and pushed to certain systems via GP rules. A file server will be setup for all users, and access will be managed thru AD security grouping. Multiple database servers will be used in sequence with SQL, and batch servers. We will be using an exchange server to manage email, and calendars. A VPN server will be in-place for the remote users, along with an FTP server to allow outside industries to share, and receive data inside our network. Some of the applications that we will be using are going to be proprietary, and will be managed on the application server. As they will be charging for their services, they will also be setup with an E-commerce solution. Comment by Stephen McMillan: Great information. However, when writing a summary that inevitably could be delivered to an executive to read, it’s appropriate to spell out IT acronyms. For example, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name Systems (DNS), etc. After you spell out the acronym, it’s not required to do that again in that specific document. As I am the reader, I understand these acronyms but someone else non-IT might not.

All systems on the network other than the DC will be tied back to our brocade switches, and backup on the SAN. Other systems like SQL, and the batch servers will be backed up on the TL, as well as a yearly backup that will take place once a year on the TL. The tapes for the TL will be stored off-site utilizing a company called Iron Mountain which will provide us with a disaster recovery solution.

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