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A project initiation meeting was conducted to
gather information on Business Drivers, Pain areas,
short term & long term goals. This was followed
by an Assessment and Analysis of the various infrastructure
and applications. This included:
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Identifying and finalizing the list of candidate
servers and hence the applications and tools
deployed on them. |
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Studying the interdependencies of servers/applications,
usage pattern of servers/applications and
performance factors |
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Evaluating of the pros and cons of the different
architectures arrived at. |
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Designing and recommending a target environment
which met the business drivers of the project
along with a roadmap of migration of applications
and servers to Linux environment. |
A proposal was provided with Bill of material,
Financials and project execution timelines. The
resultant architecture led to consolidation and
reduction of storage/servers and standardized
the operating systems and tools like AIX, Inktomi.
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