Case Study: Enterprise Data Center
Challenge
A multi-national, high-asset hedge fund launches an initiative to close down two existing datacenters and move to a new, expanded facility. At the same time, they want to implement a full disaster recovery plan for critical data and applications. The majority of the fund's datacenter hardware and software needs upgrading as well.
Solution
TorreyPoint engineering collaborates with fund staff to create clear storage and networking architectures. TorreyPoint describes the migration methodology by authoring a project plan that describes the goals, roles and responsibilities of the migration project. We also detail assumptions, risks and constraints of the move. Our engineering staff customizes a change control procedure and implements the plan over a four-month period. TorreyPoint co-chairs the migration team and provides the majority of network and storage staff.
Benefit
Customer operations staff continues to focus on the day-to-day business needs of the enterprise because pre-staging, stacking, racking, configuration, hardware verification and full mock testing of the new datacenter are delegated to TorreyPoint. TorreyPoint both designs and implements the storage and networking migration methodology and hands over the datacenter to operations staff.
Result
The new NYC data center is robust, state-of-the-art and deployed on time. A flexible network and storage design will allow the facility to scale with the hedge fund for the next five to seven years with new hardware and key disaster recovery and compliance features.
