Your boss (remember that's Molly) and your co-workers have passed on some of the things they see as overall limitations and constraints that must be placed on your overall choice for data storage:
- You, your co-workers, and your boss must all be able to access the information while at work
- You have a limited budget with which to work with when you want to implement your data storage solution. Molly won't tell you what that budget is yet since she's going to have to go to your CFO (Chief Financial Officer) for the funds. But you need to know there will be a limited budget for this project.
- All of the people in your office are fairly computer literate and they feel they will have no problem learning any computer application that they might interact with. That isn't to say you might not have to include training for them; but they all feel that given "off the shelf" training (e.g. books, in class instruction, on-line tutorials) that they should be able to handle it.
- You will have to get approval for any software that you want installed or any type of server setup in the company from the CIO (Chief Information Officer). This is because the CIO is responsible for all of the computer systems and has approval/rejection authority for any thing that is information technology related.
- You have a total of three weeks to do your research and to come up with a proposal to Molly. Molly will review your proposal and if she agrees with it then she’ll make sure it’s carried out.
And that’s it for the main constraints that you are under right now for this problem. It is possible as you continue through this lesson other constraints might come up based on decisions that you make in coming up with your recommendation of a solution to this data storage problem.
When you are ready continue on let’s do a quick review and plan before we start asking people about how they have solved previous data storage problems.
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