At the end of March my employer moved its headquarters one building over, and four floors up.
My boss and I were the sole planners in the IT-related move and we had a big hand in the move at large, too.
We’d been in the thick of it since around November or December 2009; we looked at the office space with our CEO.
The move was very exciting because for the first four months of 2010 my life was extremely busy. When it came down to it we have a completely new ISP that laid fiber to the new LAN room (we have space to maneuver around the four cabinets! *gasp* What a luxury! Shame three of the four cabinets are round threaded…doh).
Paul, my boss, and myself planned for a few hours downtime on move day. We had help from a couple colleagues to physically move our gear over and to patch everything up. Downtime was a few hours. We do, however, need to repatch everything since we forgot cable management. ha ha, oops. We’ll do that this weekend.
Concurrent to the move we were opening a brand new office in Atlanta, Georgia – in fact they are still sharing a DSL line between 12-15 people (Fiber coming soon).
Then there’s the brand new Cisco phone system we deployed on move day too. Oh and the security system.
When the dust settled we successfully moved with minimal downtime and no major issues. In fact Paul and I both were praised by our coworkers and CEO in particular (who, I think, is still waiting for everything to fall apart!
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I’m pleased that the move went well! The new space is much more open and not having to contort myself to weird positions to work in our server room. It’ll be nice to have cable management.
But the move is over…and we’re still very busy…! It’s strange how that happens.

