This project is to remove costly end of life services by decommissioning Solaris (including corporate firewall and network), obsolete Windows servers, and older Oracle versions. Introduction of new technologies has meant a growing complexity arising in our infrastructure that creates difficulties for maintenance and obstacles to keeping hardware and software up to date. This is particularly true for the obsolete technologies that in terms of all types of cost are proportionally more expensive to maintain (e.g. using older, less agile means for patching, sourcing parts for obsolete equipment)  and have an increasing risk profile as they age (e.g. lack of support from vendors, more likely to break down).

The project would initially scope a list of migrations required for any services being provided on obsolete infrastructure and then would plan a series of targeted migrations within a restricted time scale to move those services to new infrastructure. Those more complex cases that could not be easily migrated during the migration window provided by this project would need to go forward into separate projects on their own or in groups (depending on the nature of the migrations required). The goal would be to have a coherent and agreed plan that sees us making in-roads to removing all obsolete technologies out of our environment by July 2015.

Details on the servers to be decommissioned can be found here: Decommissioning Information Wiki Page