What the FCC can teach other feds about moving to the cloud
October 15, 2015
Grazed from FedScoop. Author: Greg Otto.
The on-premise data centers at the Federal Communication Commission’s headquarters are a mess. Wires are hanging out of the floor, discarded monitors are strewn about and server racks are all out of place. FCC chief information officer David Bray loves this mess. It means the agency’s data center is empty and the move to the cloud was successful.
There was a time over this past Labor Day weekend where it looked like that move could have been a failure. During the process of moving 200 servers and 60 racks to a commercial data center in West Virginia, Bray’s team of agency IT staff and contract workers rescued the project after spending 55 consecutive hours replacing all the cabling necessary to turn the system back on…
What could have sunk the entire weekend project was reduced to a speed bump: After an additional three-day delay, the FCC’s systems were fully back on online by the end of the following week…
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