Project:
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Assess Remote Access Technology Viability in Post
9/11 Environment
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Client:
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Confidential
- A major
investment group based in Washington, D.C. |
Benefit:
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The organization needed to
have a more robust, geographically distributed computing
environment that would keep the loss of the D.C. office
resources from taking the rest of the organization down
as well. My assessment provided the client with the
information their CIO required to determine which of the
competing solutions was appropriate for the firm. I also
provided approximate operational costs for
implementation and ongoing support including licensing,
hardware and communications expenses. |
 Highlights
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During
the 9/11 attacks, support for the client's offices
outside of the DC Metropolitan area was compromised
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Executives recognized the impact a similar event
would have on operations - massive service
interruptions organization-wide
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Assessment objectives included assessing:
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Viability of Citrix vs. Microsoft Terminal Server
for mission critical systems
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Compatibility of the firm's application suite with
this remote technology
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Communications capacity required to / from each site
under this architecture
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I
evaluated the two competing systems (differing
implementations of the same underlying technology
really) concentrating on robustness, user license
management, provisioning and scalability
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I also
developed an operational cost model for both systems
that illustrated the approximate cost of
implementing and running each solution for three
years
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