Modernising a legacy data centre.

An age­ing cen­tral data centre con­tained equip­ment that had reached the end of its life. The pur­pose of some sys­tems was un­clear, mak­ing it dif­fi­cult to de­term­ine what should be re­tained, re­placed or re­tired.

The or­gan­isa­tion also needed in­fra­struc­ture cap­able of sup­port­ing new com­mu­nic­a­tions and col­lab­or­a­tion ser­vices across its of­fices.

Pro­gramme lead­er­ship co­ordin­ated the con­sol­id­a­tion and re­fresh across tech­nical teams and sup­pli­ers. Re­dund­ant equip­ment was de­com­mis­sioned, com­pon­ents in­clud­ing switches and media gate­ways were re­placed and the re­main­ing in­fra­struc­ture was stream­lined. Cabling was ti­died as part of the work.

The com­pleted work left a sim­pler, bet­ter or­gan­ised es­tate, pre­pared to sup­port the next gen­er­a­tion of work­place ser­vices.