Plan the Move of over 13,000 images, Realizing Previously Unattainable Accuracy Project Description and Requirements Our client maintains an IT inventory of over 900 applications running on approximately 13,000 server images across two centers in the same metropolitan area. In 2018 they elected to build a new out--of-region data center and abandon one of [...]
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 [...]
Build a Robust Workload Placement Strategy in Seven Months after 35 years on the Mainframe 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 [...]
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 within [...]
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 strategic [...]
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 deeply [...]
Ensure a “factory approach” to your cloud migration THE CHALLENGE The Client undertook a project to move workload hosted on virtual infrastructure in their various private hosting environments as well as their existing VMware‐based private cloud into a new cloud built on OpenStack. The solution GTSG leveraged the components of our Strategy and Migration [...]