It’s coming up on 3am, and I’m just now starting to wind down a little from tonight’s work night. Although my project for this evening didn’t exactly turn out as I planned, it capped off a pretty productive day.  The highlight of the day has been our IT operations meeting.  We had a good bit of discussion today on multi-site and what we’ll need to implement to be ready.  Some good discussion…

• Network reconfiguration (addressing and masking needs tweaked - already on my list)
• Data link for streaming and network access
• Who provides it?
• What if what we need is not available? (we’re rural, so that’s possible)  Do we call the power company?  Pull fiber in? Load-balance multiple instances of available connections?
• Phone system changeover (we will be dropping our PBX and going VoIP)
• Increasing systems availability (just because the power goes out here doesn’t mean it’s out everywhere)
• Centralized storage - it sure would be nice, but what does it look like for us?

Another big item will be getting our CMS (F1) ready for this transition.  There’s a lot of background stuff that needs to happen ahead-of-time for this one.

I know even this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the big picture … but are there any IT-related items that I’m missing on this?