Reliant Primary Data Center Migration.

From our CIO James Nelson;

Later today, Reliant will migrate its primary data center to a new data center in Michigan.

Our team has been preparing for the migration to minimize the inconvenience to our users, but we will have to extend the time of our normal maintenance window.

The target window for the migration is February 15th 9 PM to 6 AM February 16th CST.  Our applications will mostly likely be back online hours before 6 AM.

Reliant's applications have been hosted in our main data center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, since 2002.  The major reason for choosing Tulsa as the location of the primary data center in 2002 was its the location of our corporate headquarters.  

Until now Reliant has purchased and maintained it's own server hardware.  With the maturity of Infrastructure As A Service providers Reliant can now obtain the hardware it needs directly from the data center.  

Here is a snapshot of the typical server configuration we will utilize in the new data center.

Web Servers

• Dual Intel Xeon E5-2620 V2 Processors
• 48GB RAM
• SAS 15K RPM RAID 10 Storage
• Gigabit connections to the public network
• Gigabit connections to the private network

Data Servers

• Dual Intel Xeon E5-2620 V2 Processors
• 64GB RAM
• SSD RAID 10 Storage
• Gigabit connections to the private network

This will allow us to bring additional servers on line in hours as needed v.s. ordering servers and waiting several weeks for them to be built, tested and delivered.  

If you have any questions about the migration please let us know at support@reliantlive.com

About James:

James is the chief architect for Reliant’s Strategic Talent Management (STM) Suite of software products.

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He has worked as an applications developer and IT consultant for a variety of organizations, leading the development of over 25 enterprise level applications involving technologies such as VB, MS SQL Server, MS Access, HTML, ASP, XML, and .NET.