Because so many different departments depend on those support systems every day, any disruption can have a big impact on the organization. The team's trainers maintain the players' medical records on their computers. The coaches need to access their game plans and playbook information. The scouts need to be able to access information on the professional and college players they're evaluating. And the team management needs to be able to access information as it negotiates player contracts.
Time is at a premium.
The speed with which we can set up a VPN connection on the road will help us tremendously. For the 1998 training camp, the Giants decided to find a way to leave the servers in Giants Stadium. They called upon their long-standing relationship with InterGlobal Multimedia, a Microsoft Certified Partner, to develop a solution to provide users with access to the files at Giants Stadium without moving the file servers. The solution had to be fast, low-cost, reliable, and secure. While most of the proposed solutions were somewhat reliable and secure, many were extremely costly and offered varying degrees of performance.