Financial Services Giant Enlists Align to Lead Massive Data Center Move and Migration and Data Center Consolidation Project
Relocate
An innovator in global finance, our client serves the financial needs of corporations, governments and municipalities, institutional clients, and high net worth individuals worldwide. Over the course of an aggressive 15-month timetable, Align led the relocation and consolidation of more than 6,200 servers, consolidating six data centers into two. Our migration work included:
- Physical and virtual servers using four primary OS platforms
- The relocation of more than 75 terabytes of SAN storage
- Hundreds of external network connections supporting several thousand production applications
- Hundreds of servers running on obsolete hardware
- 100% uptime for all production applications
Align provided a single point of contact for all technology disciplines and application owners. Critical efforts included:
- Web-based dashboard reports on the sign-off rate for each server and its hosted applications
- Physical removal of all servers from the racks
- Supervision of packing and transportation to the new location
- Verification of racked servers, patching and network connectivity
Align tracked all troubleshooting activities and sign off on:
- Third-party hardware and maintenance vendors
- Enterprise storage group
- System administrators
- Application owners
To date, Align has managed the migration of all of these devices with no impact to any of the businesses.