-----Original Message----- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:[email protected]] Subject: RE: Hyjack - Linux in the Enterprise/Schools (was RE: Sophisticated Phising attempt?)
From: Ken Schaefer >> And TBH 350 users is not an enterprise, it's a small/medium business. >> Somewhere at 10K+ seats are you starting to look at "enterprise", >> depending on industry/technology > > I'd argue that there are several levels of "Enterprise-ness". I agree that > having 350 > users is not the same as having 10K users, but I'd likely have more > help/training/pay in that case. Whilst there is no strict definition, large scale organisations face far different challenges to smaller organisations. This is not different levels of "enterprise-ness", but the fact that SOHO, small/medium and enterprise orgs face different challenges. SOHO typically has an IT team of 2-3 people, who work 9-5, and everything can be managed through social interaction. Even at the 300 user business, the IT department probably has a handful of people, low RTO/RPO requirements, located in one country. On the other hand, my account has nearly 1000 people working on it - that's bigger than your entire organisation :) The co-ordination of these people alone is a major bureaucratic exercise. Certainly there are levels within "enterprise". The 10K user bank is actually a small bank when looking at large, global banks (HSBC, Deutsche, Citibank etc). A 10K user mining company is actually quite small compared to Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton. My org (HP) has 300,000 staff - we face different challenges to a 10K user IT company, and it's completely different to a 300 user company. As for "more help" - you'd probably be wrong about that. The bigger the organisation, the less staff (as a ratio) there are to look after users or desktops or servers. Hence requirements for automation, integration, HA, documentation auto-generation etc. grow correspondingly. For 1000+ servers, it would not be unusual to only have 20 people. Those people need to cover 21 shifts per week (assuming 24x7), so the number of servers per admin is somewhere in the 1:250 range. Cheers Ken ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
