I've read (and written) quite a bit about private cloud this year. One of the private cloud aspects that I find most interesting is the fluidity of IT resources and the promise of seamlessly migrating applications between clouds.
Earlier this week I noticed the formation of a new social media community sprouting up on our internal EMC ONE platform. The community is called "RTP2 - EMC Data Center Migration". The formation of this community is in direct response to the recent announcement of 400 new North Carolina jobs and a recently purchased EMC data center facility in Research Triangle Park.
Here's the deal: many of the IT applications currently running internally at EMC are in Westboro, MA. Most (if not all) of these applications and services will be moving to the RTP facility. The community performing this task has the goal of helping "to communicate the plan, vision and strategy [of the move] to EMC Users".
It's going to be a major effort. I'll be subscribing to this community so that I can receive notifications whenever they post anything new. I would imagine that many of the IT systems have been running in Westboro for years and are not fully leveraging the latest in virtualization technologies.
I'm particularly looking forward to hearing about the technology choices being made for the new data center configuration. One would assume it would be vBlock-based and managed by IONIX. It's unclear whether or not VMs will seamlessly VMotion down to the new environment. I'm also not sure if heterogeneous equipment will be moved down there as well.
As far as the internal community, strike up another win for social media. Upon joining this community people can get an inside look at the schedules, tasks, technologies, and applications that are part of the move, published by people that are actually DOING the move.
Stay tuned. It will be interesting to write about the data center move while many of EMC's customers are trying to do the same.
Steve
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