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An unknown reader writes “I was put in assign of an aging IT infrastructure which needs a critical overhaul. Current services embody the common suspects, i.e. www, ftp, email, dns, firewall, dhcp — and a little more. In many cases, each use runs on the own hardware, a little of them for the final 7 years straight. The machines still can (mostly) hoop the bucket which ~150 people in mixed offices put on them, but there’s frequency any fallback if any of the services dies or an bureau is disconnected. Now, as the hardware contingency be replaced, I’d similar to to clean things up a bit: distributed instances of services (at slightest one example per office) and a fallback/load-balancing intrigue (either to an example in an additional bureau or a repetitious one inside of the same).

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