Systems Architecture 6th Edition by Stephen Burd

Exercise 2

You have been asked to recommend a computer system to be used as a server for a 250-person office. The server must provide shared access to a 10 TB file system, several printers, e-mail and Web services, and database services (for a 2 TB database) to a variety of application programs. Microsoft products, such as Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server, will be the primary software used on the server. Gather product information from IBM (www.ibm.com), Hewlett-Packard (www.hp.com), and Dell Computer Corporation (www.dell.com). Determine which of their products best meet the server requirements.