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Split the Data Center to Achieve Geographic Separation: Fortune 100 Strategy and Migration Achieved in 18 Months Project Description and Requirements After the events of September 11, 2001, the leadership at our client decided that it wanted to protect its business with a split of the business application portfolio and geographic separation of their [...]

Project Description and Requirements In early 2016, Our client began the implementation of their Enterprise Architecture Data Center Strategy.  The core objectives of this strategy were to move from their two customer-owned data centers into a pair of colocation facilities located is geo-separated locations. GTSG Solution Description Using our GTSG Data Center Strategy and [...]

Enable Global Data Center Consolidation Project Description and Requirements  Our client began the execution of a multi -year Global Data Center Program to optimize technology operations and consolidate data centers where appropriate.  The scope of the program was international.  Execution was already underway in the continental United States and was beginning the consolidation of [...]

Getting the Mainframe Right Before the world changed as it did, GTSG surveyed a number of industry experts and collected our own thoughts on challenges facing mainframe environments. Read More

Six Steps to a Better Mainframe Cost Structure A brief summary of our structured approach to mainframe cost optimization. Read More

On Discovery: For Hybrid IT Strategy and Data Center Workload Migration Whether setting workload placement strategy or planning a migration, discovery, done properly, is a powerful enabler of both application performance and the construction of least-risk move groups. Read More

Protect Health Care with Proven, Tested DR Planning THE CHALLENGE Our client is redefining and redesigning their disaster recovery solution. They are consolidating 4 disaster recovery centers to a single mega center. The application run books, drawings and recovery procedures were years out of date and needed to be re‐tooled prior to establishment of the [...]

Repatriate and improve operations THE CHALLENGE The client decided to insource its IT infrastructure environment to transform it over thirty months. The environments were housed at an outsourcer in Texas and Pennsylvania and a company owned data center in Staten Island NY. As would be expected, the client had very little hands‐on technical talent [...]

Insource a Fortune 20 operation into a greenfield THE CHALLENGE The client decides to insource its IT infrastructure environment after being outsourced for decades. Initially seen as an 18-20 month project, the timeline is reduced to six months. Lacking staff and anxious to realize the benefits, the client turns to a select number of [...]

Move your data center — without your business having to think about it THE CHALLENGE A major financial services firm had to relocate its primary production data center due to space constraints, power needs and the stability of its power grid, while making a lease decision at its disaster recovery site. The client was [...]