Data Centre Migrations - Part 5

Well the DC is up and running and the systems have all been migrated over from the old building. As expected BT let us down with the SIP Trunking portion of the migration so we are having to run the complete corporate telephony system on re-directed numbers down 4 x ISDN lines.

The final parts of the DC Build are taking shape now and Saturday saw the delivery of the first of the generators. This caused a bit of local excitement as it had to be craned over the top of a four storey building and placed in a channel behind the building.

Crane ready to go

Generator on board

It was poetry in motion watching the crane experts place the engine exactly where we wanted it

Annoying Air Traffic control

Still Annoying ATC

Thankfully there was no wind to speak of, indeed it was the best day weather-wise this year and it was brought gently into place

Data Centre Migrations - Part 4

Well, the Data Centre is now up and running having gained practical completion last week. As always there are still some bits and pieces to do , such as finish the CCTV, finish the Access Control, finish the EMS and get the generator installed as and when it arrives, but it is now fit to start installing equipment.

This weekend, past saw the arrival of the first few departments from the old building arrive into their shiny new offices, and we have migrated a few of the core services across such as the Vudyo platform, the email service and one of our operating countries.

BT as always are holding us up although they have delivered the ISDN services and a short-haul data service to allow us to start the migration. As like most BT clients we are struggling with our SIP trunks from BT to allow us to get on with the migration to VOIP, but we keep hitting them anyway.

I am looking forward to the postmortem and lessons learned exercise that I am sure will follow this project.

On a different note, I am off to Kuwait early in June to talk at the first ever Kuwait Data Centre conference so that will be interesting, and I have lined up some additional work with Gamma Telecom, one of the UK's leading independent Telecommunications providers