Data Center -- Relocation Timeline Available
Lem Construction, Inc. of Sacramento was awarded the bid for construction and relocation of the Information Resources Data Center.The Data Center houses all centralized campus computer systems (such as email servers, the Banner Student Information System, and the Financial Information System). Services provided by these systems are divided into three general categories -- academic, administrative, and infrastructure.
The move from the Hutchison Hall basement where it has resided since 1965 to the Repro Graphics building recently vacated by Creative Communication Services will be staged over a two-month period. In order to minimize impact on clients, the Data Center staff will use nights, weekends and holidays to relocate critical servers. Barring any complications, the systems relocation will occur as follows:
November 13-22: Infrastructure systems with the least impact on the campus (e.g., Vendor Software Library server, AFS servers, authentication servers, Oracle License Database server). This will be a test period of the network and the facility. Once the network and facility are determined to be fully functional, the administrative and academic systems are scheduled to move.
November 26-28: Banner/SIS and DaFIS administrative systems.
December 20-28: Email and other associated mission critical infrastructure systems. The move was prompted by several incidents, including a flooding in January 1997, an auditor's report on the potential for earthquake-related problems in Hutchison Hall, and an evaluation of a mock fire emergency in a lab above the Center by the campus Emergency Preparedness Task Force. (The evaluation determined that the basement would be flooded when the fire hoses were turned on.)
For more information and to view the systems relocation timeline, point your Web browser to http://ir.ucdavis.edu/dc/.