This response will discuss mitigation strategies to enable business continuity in the event of a power outage in a small office.

This response will discuss mitigation strategies to enable business continuity in the event of a power outage in a small office. Strategies investigated include the installation of a standby generator, increased Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) capacity, off-site replication of business critical data, telecommunications redundancy and off-site storage of systems backups. It is estimated that three out of five businesses that experience downtime of 48 hours or more will be out of business within 3 years. Creating a technology risk mitigation and data protection plan requires people, process and technology in the right recipe to be successful.

What are the business benefits and management problems of client/server networks?

What are the business benefits and management problems of client/server networks? Network computing? Peer-to-peer networks?

Why would a company want a network on its premises?

1. Why would a company want a network on its premises? How would a department or company benefit by having a network?

You and the other members of the IT team for Surebank need to get up to speed on the OSI model.

Scenario: You are currently working for Surebank, a mid-size financial institution. The organization has approximately 80 people working in their main location where your office is located. The bank also has two branch locations. You have been very successful in your career as a Network Operation Specialist, serving at the help desk, assisting many users with routine problems with their desktop PC's and the company software. Your supervisor, the Network Administrator, was recently fired because of poor attendance. As you are the senior NOS and have performed very capably, you have been appointed as the Interim Network Administrator. If you do well, the interim position could become perm... click for more

Internetworking Design

This week I am reading Network addressing and naming. I have several questions. They are attached. 1. How do I identify a broadcast address and a subnet ID if I am given 6.6.6.6 255.255.128.0 (e.g 10.10.10.10 255.255.252.0, Subnet ID = 10.10.8.0, Broadcast 10.10.11.255). 2. How do I identify a broadcast address and a subnet ID if I am given 6.6.6.6 255.255.255.128 (e.g 10.10.10.10 255.255.252.0, Subnet ID = 10.10.8.0, Broadcast 10.10.11.255). 3. I need help in understanding in summarizing the following address to the most specific mask. Using the Ref Q below 10.10.10.0, 10.10.9.0,10.10.8.0,10.10.11.0 Ref Q How should the following networks be summarized 172.16... click for more