robert james morrison ict project management for data center data migrations and bau transitioning

DATA CENTER.

DATA MIGRATIONS AND BAU TRANSITIONING

Robert James MorrisonExperienced ICT Project Manager

Data Center.Data Migrations and BAU transitioning

Experienced Practitioner for Systems and Data Migrations. Data Center specialist.

Clients and Projects Completed

Colonial Transformation for CBA/ EDS (2000-2001) Mainframe and midrange services.

Franklins Supermarkets Transition outsourcing to IBM Services (2010). Business, services and Supermarket services.

Jetset Travelworld Group. Transition from AMD to Intel Blades (2012). Transition of front line travel and travel services applications to new hardware.

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CBA/ Colonial Transition : Project Highlights and Features Completed in one weekend without significant business interruption

within strict business systems availability needs and windows. Practice runs. Involved all mainframe services; Security, CICS, OS, Flight Desk,

DB2 and database, and applications. Strong user involvement. Transition from IBM outsourcing to EDS. Mainframe business systems. Transition of support arrangements to internal EDS towers. Data copy-over from IBM host to HDS data frame, and

transportation to EDS Burwood. Also included midrange systems. Strict observance of due diligence and data center requirements.


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Data Center.Data Migrations and BAU transitioning.

Franklins Transition : Project Highlights and Features Completed without significant business interruption within strict

business systems availability needs and windows.

Transition from another outsourcer.

Included DR arrangements transition.

Included RMIS (monitoring and alerting) to offshore services.

Transition of support arrangements to internal IBM towers.

Effected by implementation of direct network connection from previous outsourcer and build of networking infrastructure to support head office, warehousing and 80 stores.

Strict observance of due diligence and IBM data center requirements.

Supervision of outsourcer staff.


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Jetset Travelworld : Project Highlights and Features

Completed without significant business interruption within strict business systems availability needs and windows.

Transition from older AMD based hardware at Telstra Data Center .

Included User testing and signoff arrangements.

Staged arrangements to reduce risk and business downtime.

Transition of internal support arrangements.

Effected by implementation of direct internal network connection to new hardware. Little downside risk.

Migrations activated and monitored remotely.


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Plan and Approach. Business engagement with application and system owners.

Project sponsors. Form team.

Assemble technical team to perform analysis of existing systems. Determine resources.

Build of new hardware. Install, commission test.

Estimate migration time durations.

Risk analysis and risk mitigation.

Table migration plan to IT management and business.

Agree timeframes.

Determine resourcing profile.

Set up change records and seek business approvals.


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Design and Planning. Devise instructions for migrations, the ‘how to’. Select migration tool. POC testing. Migration tool. Results evaluation. Refine migration estimates. Success criteria. Socialize draft timeframes with business. Table and document detailed plans and obtain formal agreement to

proceed. Set up plan walkthru with participants and stakeholders. Plan communications out to business units and service desk. Determine and test fallback. Determine go-nogo points.


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Build. Infrastructure build, commission and test.

Dry run for migration.

Evaluate test results for completeness and accuracy of data migration.

Understand system interdependencies (i.e. databases, database testing, database recoveries, web services, application services to user base.)

Update migration duration estimates if necessary.

Arrange user acceptance testers.

Arrange external support resources.

Publish plan and walkthru.


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Transition. Stage migrations in a phased manner to mitigate risk. Change approval. Issue notices to business and customers. Migrate data. Ensure that migration will conclude within agreed timeframe for

business outage. Confirm migration successful completion. Advise UA/ business testers. Test. Log defects and issues. Determine if rollback required. Obtain signoff if testing successful. Perform network cutover so that all desktops and systems are pointing to new

hosts. Repeat. Update service desk on migration completion. Arrange first day support.


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Post Migration and Project Closure.

Compile migration results.

Close out issues.

Update server documentation as required.

Close out project financials.

PIR and lessons learnt to develop repeatable process.


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