Glenn Scott

Background

About Glenn Scott

39 years of Enterprise IT experience focused on - High Availability; Servers and Storage Architecture; Enterprise Architecture; Virtualization; Mainframe; Backups; Monitoring; Scheduling; Performance and Tuning; Disaster Recovery. Focus areas on outsourcing initiatives; Data Centre Services RFP for the Canada Post Group of Companies, Infrastructure Shared Services, Data Centre consolidation, Private/Hybrid Cloud Compute/Storage Models, High Availability and lower IT TCO costs. Previous assignment - Director Server and Storage Delivery and CPGC Data Centre Transition Project. Summary - Transitioned eight data centres to two data centres at a new services provider built largely on multiple VCE vBlock 720s (meeting the stringent disaster recovery RTO and RPO requirements). Scope - 1500+ servers, 300+ applications, 2PB usable storage, and 20+ new managed services. Timeline - 18 months. Technology summary - vblock 320s and 720s, vMax 40k storage arrays, XIO, Data Domain, Celerras, Centeras, Sun and HP, Transition successfully completed. Focused on Work Load Migrations, Data Centre Consolidations and implementing/testing disaster recovery solutions at Shared Services. Completed an AWS beginners course. Created VMs, load balanced them, put in DR etc all on AWS. Cloud Practitioner would be the next logical step,