Data Center Redesign

Who:

Fidelity National Financial / FIS
3100 New York Drive
Pasadena, CA 91107

When: November 2006

What: Client's data center required upgrades resulting from consolidating additional business units.

The Challenge: The client's production and development data center equipment needed to be moved from San Diego, CA to Pasadena, CA.  However, before the move could take place, the data center located in Pasadena required upgrades to support the additional capacity.  This would give the client the ability to respond to changing business and economic conditions, including increased competition. 

The Solution: The core infrastructure (electrical, air conditioning, water cooling, fire suppression, cabling, fiber optics, telecommunications, connectivity, security, and facilities), were all reviewed and upgraded as necessary before internal infrastructure (core switching, edge switches, server racks) was delivered.  Teams from vendors such as Calence, Cisco Consulting Services, Microsoft Consulting Services, GLUMAC and EMC|Dell Professional Services and others were brought in to assist with these upgrades and transition activities. Fail over of production services to the alternate infrastructure was done before moving equipment to the new location.  Then, fail back was performed.

The Result: The new design resulted in more efficient cooling and a centralized core network consistent with the client's business methodology.  This provided full-service integrated, single-source technology solutions with an emphasis on central consolidation and management of services. Existing legacy systems were replaced, overall capacity increased and additional design efficiencies (racks, cable management, etc.) were made all while continually supporting development and production services.