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Rocky Mountain University is an institution of higher education located in the mountains...

Rocky Mountain University is an institution of higher education located in the mountains of Colorado. It has a network of servers and desktop computers that were installed in 2000. The hardware consists of the following setup:

? 25 PowerPC Macintosh computers

? Four Dell Pentium 4 servers

? Two HP servers running on the Alpha CPU

? 160 desktop computers running on the AMD Duron CPU

? 25 desktop computers running on the Intel Core Duo CPU

? 45 desktop computers running on the Pentium 4 CPU

Using the information, you learned in this chapter, along with the previous chapters on operating systems, you will be able to make informed recommendations in the following case projects.

Server Upgrades

The new Director of Information Technology has asked you to recommend a strategy to upgrade the servers on their network. Recommendations on server hardware, CPU chip set, speed, and caching are needed. It is also requested that you recommend which servers to upgrade first and if there are any that are still appropriate to keep.

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