Mile High University has a network of servers and desktop computers that were installed in 2000. The hardware consists of the following components: 25 PowerPC Macintosh computers
Four Dell Pentium 4 servers
Two HP servers running on the Alpha CPU
160 desktop computers running on the AMD Duron CPU
25 desktop computers running on the Intel Core Duo CPU
45 desktop computers running on the Pentium 4 CPU
Using the information you learned in this module and previous modules, you will be able to make informed recommendations in the following case projects.
The new Director of Information Technology has asked you to recommend a strategy to upgrade the servers on their network.
a. Recommendations on server hardware, CPU chip set, speed, and caching are needed.
b. You should also recommend which servers to upgrade first and determine whether any servers are still appropriate to keep.