One of the 15 largest law firms in the world, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, supports nearly 1400 lawyers in 15 cities around the world (Kirkland & Ellis, 2011). Hardware and software are used by most of the lawyers in the company and many more people who help su
Hardware and Software
Dhaval Shah
CIS205
July 4, 2011
Frances Wand
Hardware and Software
The hardware and software of a workplace is important to the support of personal, workgroup, and enterprise computing. Although each company operates different, hardware and software will be used in similar form. One of the 15 largest law firms in the world, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, supports nearly 1400 lawyers in 15 cities around the world (Kirkland & Ellis, 2011). Hardware and software are used by most of the lawyers in the company and many more people who help support lawyers. Having each office use the same hardware and software in every office makes supporting them easy for the company.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP deploys standard set of hardware and software to each employee based on his or her position. Every employee uses either a Dell desktop and monitor or a Dell Laptop. These pieces of hardware allow the employee to connect to Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s network and function as a corporation. The workstations use the Windows operating system, Windows XP. Windows XP, a Microsoft product, released its first edition in 2001 (Microsoft, 2011). While this operating system is no longer sold or supported, Kirkland & Ellis LLP decided to hold off on upgrading to Windows 7. Because of the compatibility issues Windows Vista, the operating system released after Windows XP, had, Kirkland & Ellis LLP chose not to upgrade. Kirkland & Ellis LLP primarily uses Microsoft products. Their primary Internet browser is also a Microsoft product, Internet Explorer.
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The report states the term 'Smart Phone', and this is described well and a user is able to understand this with ease. However the term 'Desktop Virtualization' is a little short and doesn't fully explain what this is. I believe that this is quite a complex technical term to explain, and thus the explication needs to be simple, by quite a length to allow the examiner to understand.
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The report states that the company uses Microsoft Exchange Server, to connect their e-mail accounts. This is quite good, although for high marks the report could explain how this is implemented across the company to allow the business to operate on a day-to-day basis.
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In summary, the report is quite good. The report states the different hardware/software there there are using. In addition, there explain how this is being used though-out the company. However the report could include further uses of technology, and how the employee's may have to adapt to new software/hardware that the business implements. The report states the hardware, and software that the company uses across their network for all employee's. This is quite good, as this gives clear brand names and software packages which the company uses. Thus, this makes the report clear and can be read and understood with ease. The report could mention how the technology may develop in the near future. As the report did state that there didn't install Windows Vista, or Windows 7. However the report could include information on the future technology the company may use.