Project to Decommission Obsolete Infrastructure started

We have started a new project to remove costly end of life services by decommissioning Solaris, obsolete Windows servers, and older Oracle versions. The 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 are proportionally more expensive to maintain and have an increasing risk profile as they age.

The project will initially scope a list of migrations required for any services being provided on obsolete infrastructure and then plan a series of targeted migrations within a restricted time scale to move those services to new infrastructure. The more complex cases that can not be easily migrated during the migration window provided by this project may need to go forward into separate projects on their own or in groups. 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, with the project expected to complete by July 2016.

Further details can be found here: https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/INF105

David Watters IS Applications