I am working on converting from GoDaddy POP3 email to a Exchange solution for our 350 or so end users. I am pricing out all of the options (Hosted vs Office 365 vs On Prem) to ensure we choose the right path.
I worked with a local consulting firm but our account manager has been giving me the cold shoulder so I thought I would get some thoughts here on how to properly price the On-Prem option with the growth (30% YOY) we will see in the future.
They priced out 3x Proliant DL380 servers, each with 2x E5-2670 procs and 32GB of RAM. They also pushed 1TB of RAM to be split between each server. They put in 2x HP StoreVirtual 4330 arrays filled with 7.2 TB's of SAS drives into their quote as well. This solution was supposed to handle Sharepoint, Exchage and Lync.
I have their price on it but my concern is future growth. I can estimate the...