“Someone higher up in your org needs to want to see this work out better/faster/cheaper or whatever, or it's not really going to go anywhere… “
+1 Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security ' Security is an ongoing process, not a one time event ! ' From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 12:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Server team, desktop team, and me in the middle.. Multiple backup solutions is generally a BadIdea™ It's expensive and can cause conflicts with agent overlap, etc. The problem you're described seems organizational and operational, not necessarily technical. Someone higher up in your org needs to want to see this work out better/faster/cheaper or whatever, or it's not really going to go anywhere -- especially since it will require a budget. As for AV, if you already control it, I'm not sure what the problem is there. -ASB On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:45 PM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: Looking to see what other orgs of about 400-500 users do. We're effectively a software developement shop, so we have a couple hundred servers (of which about 30 are in my arena, ton of dev ones that only developers maintain)), plus about 450 workstations. The issue we're how best to miantain the environment - specifically the "middle" where antvirus, patching, backups and software deployment land. Specifically I'm thinking backups and antivirus .We currently use Tivoli for our servers and workstations - the trick being we only back up one folder in folks' workstations. The Se team owns/operate the entire Tivoli system, the problem is we run into enough issues that going between the Service Desk guys and the SE team it's cumbersome to resolve issues. I'm wondering at what point the SD guys might want to roll with their own backup solution, or perhaps is there a better way to manage our current setup? Antivirus is almost the reverse of this as I manage our AV, including all the AV on our servers...nothing like a fuzzy line.. Dave ~ 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 ~ 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
