Given good technique and proper environment, it should scale better than linearly, given the same set of technologies. As you point out, the larger an environment the more likely it is to become more complex, with more complex application sets, but it should still scale well, IMHO.
Proper planning prevents poor performance - an excellent maxim. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:45 AM, David Lum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does that mean if a consultant spends only 8hrs/week supporting 50 users the > math comes out to one 40hr/week guy for 250 users? Somehow I don't think it > would scale so well because at some employee count they'll want more > services... > > David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER > NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION > (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:58 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: staff to equipment to end users ratios > > There are several determining factors that you're leaving out: > o- Do your users have administrator authority on their machines? > Win this battle, and you'll need fewer support staff. I'm still trying > to win it. > o- How sophisticated are your users? > o- How complex is your application environment? > o- How complex are the business requirements? This is probably > the driver for the prior question. > o- What is management's expectation for sophistication, and > therefore rate of pay, of IT support staff. Pay less per person, and > you need more of them, all other things being equal. > > The best paper I've seen on this is here : > > http://www.verber.com/mark/sysadm/how-many-admins.html > > Kurt > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Jake Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What is everyone's ratio of staff to servers and/or network equipment? >> Staff to end user support? >> >> We have 225+ end users supported by 1 person whom I have to help if she > gets >> backed up. >> I am in charge of the network infrastructure and 10+3 servers (Prod+Dev) > and >> have no one to help me when I get backed up, and that's not a complaint! > I >> don't like people screwing up my servers. >> There are 3 developers in IT for our internal apps, and I need to support >> them like a babysitter sometimes. If you are a developer and can't >> research your own error messages... don't talk to me and seriously don't >> tell me my server is misconfigured! ;) >> >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jake Gardner >> TTC Network Administrator >> Ext. 246 > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
