Project Description

Profile

National City Corporation, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, is one of the nation’s largest financial holding companies. The company operates through an extensive banking network primarily in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri and Pennsylvania. They also serve customers in selected markets nationally. Its core businesses include commercial and retail banking, mortgage financing and servicing, consumer finance and asset management.

Client Environment

The environment consisted of a variety of distributed equipment such as IBM zSeries, pSeries, Sun, HP, Compaq, CISCO, and EMC.

The Challenge

NCC needed resources to extend their staff to allow day to day activities to continue during the planning and execution phases.

Workload conversion to NCC core systems was a major activity. This was done by a separate team but with very close co-ordination with the data relocation team.

This data center relocation had to move and merge the IT workload of an acquired bank into NCC’s current IT operations over a single 3-day weekend. One of the relocation’s targets was for minimal impact on their customer base.

The Solution

The IT infrastructure was pre-positioned and tested prior to moving the workload.  The multiple go/no go decisions points were pre-planned to ensure that the prior move group was operational before the next move group was released.  This ensured that continued operations at the end of the 3-day relocation were maintained.

Critical Success factors

  • Used a large pool of qualified resources to maintain day-to-day activities of the current staff
  • Adopted a “library card” approach to meeting staffing requirements
  • Brought in extensive experience in successful data center relocations
  • Brought in project managers with experience in  managing multi-state infrastructure improvements projects

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