02 — Continuity engineering
Data-Centre Co-location & Business Continuity
Planned and executed a data-centre co-location initiative for the Astoria group following a serious water incident in the on-premises server room.
Context
An on-premises server room within the Astoria group, housing rack-mounted HP, IBM, and Dell servers, suffered a serious water incident.
Challenge
The incident exposed facility-level risk to business-critical systems hosted in the on-premises server room.
Role & mandate
Planned and executed the subsequent data-centre co-location initiative.
Approach
- 01HP, IBM, and Dell rack-mounted servers were affected by the server-room water incident
- 02Planned the data-centre co-location initiative that followed
- 03Executed the co-location initiative
Purpose
The initiative was undertaken to support business continuity and to remove facility-level risk from the on-premises server room.
Leadership dimension
Carrying an infrastructure incident through to a planned change of hosting environment, and owning the initiative end to end.
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