Your IT Wishlist

SteveLord

Let's say your department/division/team/whatever had come into money, whether it be via record profits, government grants, etc. Then your supervisors gather you and your peers to come up with ways to spend it, what areas of IT would you want to spend it on to improve or upgrade?

Training opportunities? Long overdue server upgrades? A big virtualization project or upgrade to a current one? A sophisticated offsite baclup service? Tablets for field staff? Software that enhances how you support your customers? Things you/your boss/your team has been wanting to do or even putting off, purely because of funding. Especially things you that you know will improve you or your business.

Let's be realistic here. No company cars from Bentley, gold plated smartphones or certification boot camps held at the Hamptons.

webgeek

SANS courses! All the way up to GIAC GSE and maybe CCNA/CCNP/CCIE training plus paying for labs

N2IT

Management that respects their employees and peers who live by the golden rule.

ptilsen

Tons of training, Retina MacBook Pros, full upgrade to Server 2008 R2 and 2012 across the board, full-blown redundant infrastructure across the board, new ticketing/CMDB/change management/etc. system, renewed focus on security, more bandwidth. Always more bandwidth, always.

cyberguypr

I would add 1 to my team's headcount so I can work on more fun stuff that I keep putting off. Lots or room for optimization here but the time is not there.

DevilWAH

A core refresh, access layer refresh, wireless refresh and a full Resilient WAN link utilizing BGP (cause I want to learn BGP in the real world, and get resilience for our systems)

Tick, Tick, Tick and tick Government grants are your friend..

Basically there is a site wide development project of around £300-£400 million over the next 3 years and the IT systems have to be brought up to spec to match. So its pretty much if you need it, and you can put forward a business case how it will play its part in making us world leading then you can have it. Its a pretty nice situation to be in, I get lots of nice "toys" to play with, and if I show that they are worth it I can keep buying new ones.

Trifidw

Guest wifi access, with site wide wireless coverage (probably 2/3rds there).

Qord

I'd say training/professional development investments (seminars, personal play n' learn servers, cbt, books...) and allot time for us to train formally. We're a pretty dispersed crew, and we only get together in person once a year so it would be nice to not have travel costs be prohibitive of meeting more often.

Akaricloud

We actually have a lot of new, great equipment and tons of training opportunities but I would love to see a technical operations manager hired. Someone who knew our core technologies better than we did to help make better informed decisions and restore order out of our chaos.

SteveLord

I would want an apprentice/intern/flunky to offload some of my more menial tasks, allowing me to focus more on an ongoing database project. While at the same time helping them get their feet wet.

DevilWAH

Akaricloud wrote: »

We actually have a lot of new, great equipment and tons of training opportunities but I would love to see a technical operations manager hired. Someone who knew our core technologies better than we did to help make better informed decisions and restore order out of our chaos.

Why hire some one? Would you not rather some one there took the optatunity and did it. Knowing the technologies is only half the battle and any one can learn these. The real skill is knowing how to apply them to your company. Getting some one new in and you risk them trying to fit your company to the skill set and experince they have. But take some one internal and they will learn the skills to fit to your company. A much better out come often.