Timothy,
Thanks for your comments. Am in touch with IBM. Your questions:
Has any municipality IT, having grown from nothing, likely to be
anything but server farm/Unix/Microsoft (you know what I mean) plus off
the shelf packages.
DR - what's that .. you mean backup?
I would guess our 7 have different packaged software performing same
functionality; likely some duplication .. equalling masses of data
stored in a multitude of proprietary ways:-( .. a behemoth.
And one needs to convince 7 IT/Council empires .. can the convincing be
incremental? Am truly hoping IBM has the 'methodology' to bring us an
evolution .. our A'burg muni has a debt/reserves ratio around 25:1 .. is
gross .. the others are much better off than us. In the end I worry that
politics will override savings!
Graham
On 2015-03-05 12:59 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
Also recommend you contact both the IBM people who chimed in. Not me -- I'm
in Singapore and may be groggy when you call at your reasonable time. :-)
However, to give you a few more lines of investigation from afar....
1. What are they running on those Windows-based servers (and on any other
servers)? What sort of applications (in terms of runtimes, in particular)
and middleware products?
2. If there are 7 municipalities, and (by implication) 7+ primary data
centers, are there are also at least 7 secondary (DR) centers? Or is DR
inadequate?
3. Are the 7 municipalities providing services 7 different ways -- they
have 7 different applications for substantial the same service, in other
words? With 7 different application development and/or support teams? Or do
they have substantial agreement on applications?
The answers to these questions (and a few others) would be helpful in
trying to understand "better" and "best" alternatives, if any.
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IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA
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