MATTHEW BUTCH

Our company is divided up into Service Groups (mine: Business Technology), then Divisions (mine: Delivery), then Departments (mine: SRE), then teams (mine: Networking/Security & Server/Storage)... We first evaluated server venders and selected the final brand (Dell) with the server count (22 total, 11 per datacenter). Then we planned the network infrastructure as we had older Cisco switches and would not have enough ports to use all the new servers. We again evaluated switch vendors and selected the final brand (Cisco) and setup (2 core switches with 2 top of rack switches). With the hardware selected, we evaluated the current electrical capacity and the required electrical capacity. We determined we had enough main and generator power, but not enough UPS power. So we selected a new bottom of rack UPS to match the requirements... We have been planning a migration of our major internal web application (used by everybody in the business from sales agents in the field to accounting)..