Running head: THE FICTION CORPORATION DATA CENTER MOVE

The Fiction Corporation Data Center Move
Nigel Cleveland
Strayer University

Fiction Corporation is a large national retail chain of 10,000 employees and 500 retail outlets. Fiction is moving its primary data center operation to a new headquarters building several miles away. The company wishes to upgrade its network and correct any security flaws in its infrastructure as part of this move. The Fiction CEO has informed Big-Proj that the capital budget cannot exceed $500,000 and must not interrupt business operations. The data in the center supports remote retail locations, an off-site 100-seat call center and 3 remote warehousing operations 24 hours a day. Any significant downtime to its production systems would impact Fiction Corporation’s operations and profitability.
Fiction Corporation has hired Big-Proj to supervise and execute its data center move several miles away to its new headquarters facility. The Project life cycle has been signed for 30 days. Big-Proj typically handles these types of moves as part of its normal operations; along with network upgrades, and ERP deployments. The move will include 2 large UPS, 4 RS/6000 AIX application servers, 10 virtualized servers, and 20 PC servers. A part of the strategy on the project will be to keep Fiction Corporation’s systems up and running as they serve 500 remote location retail stores that are connected via frame relay with ISDN backup. The company wishes to employ a seamless migration that minimizes impact on staff and customers. Overall, the process should start with a thorough audit of the existing data center to accurately inventory the equipment, functions, and processes that will be moved to the new location.
One of Nigel’s directives is work closely with Fiction Corporations IT Operations Organization to mitigate risk and establish