CANADIAN BLOOD SERVICES
108 its new colocation sites that the entire business can be run from either one . “ We replicate our VMware workloads from one data center to the other continuously . Should we lose a data center site , we use Zerto to reactivate those VMs in the other data center .” Zerto is a Tel-Aviv-based virtual replication software company that specializes in providing operational continuity in the direst of circumstances . The company ’ s duplication software was also , according to Grant , a key tool in the migration itself . “ We used Zerto replication to move the data from our Ottawa data centers to our new Rogers partners data center site ,” he explains .
10 years ago , if a company embarked on a digital project , or bought a new piece of software , the expectation was that there was a finite price tag and completion date . In 2019 , if executed correctly , a digital transformation project will cost an unlimited amount of money and take an unlimited amount of time . With the completion of the migration , Grant at the team are preparing to immediately begin reevaluating Canadian Blood Services ’
SEPTEMBER 2019