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6. The firm performed extensive testing, and at the end of the scheduled
application stoppage, the system went into full production.
7. At the next scheduled downtime, the old source arrays were taken out of
service and sent back to the leaseholder.
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Global migration to new storage over distance
A Fortune 1000 bank running a Sybase financial application was relocating
four servers from a New Jersey operations center to a New York City opera-
tions center, changing out the legacy storage arrays to newer arrays.
The bank’s key migration challenges were as follows:
• Increased storage demands and internal consolidation — These factors
drove the technology refresh.
Figure 5
Multiserver migration with consolidation
Highlights
A bank needed help relocating
four servers to another state.
