The plan for Database consolidation is to provide three standard
database environments: Oracle, MySQL and MSSQL.
Team has made considerable progress with MS SQL in the Provost
area. Next version of Microsoft Office reported includes massive
Sharepoint integrations.
Provision MS SQL migration work has begun in two
departments.
Team has made considerable progress with MS SQL in the Provost
area. Next version of Microsoft Office reported includes massive
Sharepoint integrations.
Work has begun on migrating Research and Business Oracle
environments to the consolidated area.
Updates were given for the five sub teams of the Servers and
Services Consolidation project.
All of the sub-teams are meeting either weekly or bi-weekly,
striving to have their preliminary budgets and design architectures
completed by the end of April. Each hopes to have a group-specific
timeline in place very soon in order to sequence the projects,
identify the overlaps, and make decisions on key policy issues. Two
key policies are the naming conventions of email systems and the
deleted mail retention period.
The group has performed an internal needs analysis and came up
with eleven points that needed consolidated solutions. They also
sent out a survey to get as much information as possible. The group
currently has a high-level view of what the architecture will look
like, where it will be housed, and they are in the process of
developing an overall project plan as well as a budget.
The Database team is surveying specific needs from IT Nodes
regarding Oracle, SQL server and MySQL.
The Servers and Services Consolidation sub-teams are gathering
requirements and developing budget plans, with a target completion
date of March 31. They are also in the process of collecting more
server-related data for planning purposes, such as the server age
and brand.
Database Implementation Team is developing a project plan for
implementation of common database servers. Database server needs
definition work is completed.
The Database Implementation team has launched.
