Relocations and Mergers performed by DCAG consultants
DCAG consultants have been involved with planning and accomplishing major data center relocations and mergers, especially after our Sales Agents were responsible for the sale of the Docu/Text and Job/Scan products. These products validated and documented jobs and job streams, providing a list of job(s) components and their storage requirements. Some of the specific data center mergers and relocations that DCAG was involved with include:
IBM NY Banking Office - Customer Engineer (CE) and
Programming Systems Representative (PSR).
In this position, I worked with other IBM
personnel to plan and configure many data center environments within the general
NY Banking community. It was our job to identify client bank needs, to
assist in defining machine requirements (types, size, processing power, etc.),
to then install machines and to provide on-going support and maintenance for all
IBM mainframe and peripheral devices.
American Can Company - Distributed Mainframe Service
Centers.
After leaving IBM, Tom Bronack accepted a position
at American Can where he was responsible for optimizing the first Service Bureau
data center opened by American Can (which later converted itself into a
financial services firm). In this position, Mr. Bronack reviewed the
system configuration and peripheral device usage, made recommendations for
improvement, and was responsible for enhancing performance many times over.
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company - Trust Data
Center creation and Retail Data Center merger.
The Trust Data Center was the first MVS data center in MHT
and was used as the prototype for other MVS data centers within the MHT
environment. Tom Bronack was the Technical Support and Systems Manager at
MHT and he was responsible for implementing an MP 370/158 data center to support
Trust operations. He later was asked to convert the NCR based Retail data
center to an MVS data center running vendor banking applications, which was then finally merged into the Retail
Data Center.
Chase Manhattan Bank
Migrated data centers from 2000 Marcus Avenue to 1985 Marcus
Avenue, performed job stream validation and sizing, and isolated potential
problem areas in time to correct problems before migration.
Citibank
DCAG was involved with the Citibank data center reduction
project, in which over 100 data centers were merged into less than 20 data
centers. We provided job stream identification and sizing via Docu/Text,
job stream validation through Job/Scan and Asset Management via financial
analysis of equipment rental / lease, etc. We ere not only able to
identify equipment requirements associated with the Citibank merger, but we were
also able to identify the best equipment to move (eliminating equipment whose
financial profile was more expensive than the recommended equipment).
Sandoz Pharmaceutical Corporation - Data Center
consolidation project.
This consulting project was responsible for
combining the ten building campus facility in NJ into a single data processing
complex, where information sharing and safeguards could be performed by a single
organization. We performed a survey of the existing computing resources
used by each of the ten sub-organizations contained within the NJ Campus.
Our team then made a recommendation to consolidate operations into a single
facility running mainframe applications, while supporting online and remote
operations. Workloads were eventually migrated to the newly developed
facility and support staffs consolidated. This project resulted in a more
efficient data processing environment, with improved security, disaster
recovery, and accountability.