How we chose to implement the data center move (part 2)

Continued from Part 1

Dealing with our new hosts

From day 1, I thought this new high-tech relationship was not going to last too long. I was proven wrong on my initial reactions. The vendor provided their "A" team. They were very quick at turning over the servers in the PROD environment.

How we chose to implement the data center move (part 1)

Initial Rant...

Generating a "winning team" attitude

Team = Product. This is the premise that Jim and Michelle McCarthy propose in their teachings (follow this link for more info on them. It will be worth your time). Their theory explains (and in practice shows) that the attributes of a team are directly traced to the attributes of the product and viceversa.

My Data Center Migration Rant (part 0)

A Data Center Migration "story" - an Anecdotal Evidence

Dear reader,

The purpose of this post (and this series for that matter) is to recount some lessons learned while I worked in a project to migrate our data center from an Internally Hosted facility to a third-party provider one.