Hello again: I am in the U.S. (Central Time Zone), so reach out at your convenience. I recently returned from Australia where I was involved in a government project to migrate 20 data centers into 2. This type of project is not new to us, obviously.
Regards, Mitchell R. Mccluhan Application Modernization Consultant Digital Modernization Services 254-598-4642 - U.S. office 916-271-6575 - U.S. mobile 916-718-8910 - IBM mobile 04 759 16272 - Australian mobile [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Mar 5, 2015 12:01 am Subject: Re: Municipal mainframe practical (what I meant to send) Also recommend you contact both the IBM people who chimed in. Not me -- I'm in Singapore and may be groggy when you call at your reasonable time. :-) However, to give you a few more lines of investigation from afar.... 1. What are they running on those Windows-based servers (and on any other servers)? What sort of applications (in terms of runtimes, in particular) and middleware products? 2. If there are 7 municipalities, and (by implication) 7+ primary data centers, are there are also at least 7 secondary (DR) centers? Or is DR inadequate? 3. Are the 7 municipalities providing services 7 different ways -- they have 7 different applications for substantial the same service, in other words? With 7 different application development and/or support teams? Or do they have substantial agreement on applications? The answers to these questions (and a few others) would be helpful in trying to understand "better" and "best" alternatives, if any. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
