Strategy & Migration

The Challenge Initially, our client planned to vacate roughly 800-900 server images housing 73 applications from its on-premises data center before March 2024. A good deal of work had been done to prepare for the migration, including identifying a target data center, identifying data sources, and of required project resources, but still needed a [...]

The Challenge Our client planned to consolidate and relocate nine mission-critical applications spread across what they believed to be 85-100 servers from their existing data centers in three cities into a single new data center. Having grown by acquisition with minimal systems consolidation, client leadership needed a deeper understanding of application dependencies, risk items, [...]

The Challenge Following a recent modernization of their Payments Network, our client needed to modernize their Acquirer systems with the same success and quality. Our client had maintained and improved their Acquirer Network and associated systems on the mainframe and proprietary server systems for decades. Coupled with a recent change in data sovereignty requirements, [...]

The Challenge Today’s customer demand drives an increasing need for interaction with modern payment options, apps and products. While our client had been improving their mainframe- and proprietary servers-based Payments Network for decades, it was now time for modernization. Service in China needed to launch on the rails of the new Payments Network. Leadership [...]

Client Situation and Challenge  Our client utilizes legacy mainframe-based systems to manage sensitive data for many millions of customers. They engaged GTSG to determine how best to utilize cloud capabilities in order to improve the agility and effectiveness of several key workflows.  Unlike many clients who contact us, this mainframe is not scheduled for [...]

Project description and requirements Our client, a significant health care payer, faced significant capital requirements to update the aging physical plant of its on-premises data center. At the same time, our client knew that some of its workload would eventually move to the cloud. Consequently, they engaged GTSG to answer several questions: Which workloads [...]

The Challenge Our client is a nationally known multi-billion dollar homebuilder who faced a data center lease expiration – a “wrecking ball” event – moving from the East Coast to space in its Pacific time zone colocation facility. During the migration effort, they continued to explore a longer-term solution elsewhere in the United States, [...]

The Challenge A large provider of a broad range of financial services had been without a viable disaster recovery (DR) capability for over a decade.  Its two data centers ran in very close proximity, such that a regional event would expose both facilities.  Their long-term plan was for east and west coast data centers, [...]

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 [...]