Today, Logikworx announced to employees and clients that it has migrated all servers, internal, management servers, and clients’ servers to Windows Server R2.
I sat down with Rod Kowalsky, General Manager of Logikworx to discuss this milestone.
Webserf: Hello Rod. Congratulations on the completion of your server migrations.
Rod Kowalsky: Hello Norm. Thank you.
Webserf: How difficult was this migration?
RK: It was much easier than the migrations from Server 2003 & Server 2003 R2 to Server 2008. Apart from a few new clients that were on older servers, we basically breezed through the upgrades. The reason it took so long was that we wanted to make sure nothing broke in the regression testing, as opposed to nothing critical breaking when we migrated people from pre-Windows Server 2008.
Webserf: Are you pleased at the time it took to get everything through?
RK: I am. We actually concluded the physical migrations seven weeks ago. However, John (Obeto, CEO of Logikworx) doesn’t consider a migration concluded until we have a minimum of four weeks without any incident at all, even if it is not our error. For example, one of the problems we ran into had to do with a bad UPS at a customer site. While that was not our fault, it was during the four-week shakedown period, and it caused the clock to be restarted. All in all though, we are satisfied.
Webserf: If I may ask, how are the Windows 7 migrations coming along?
RK: Technically, it is completed. In fact, we completed it two days before the start of Microsoft PDC 2010. However, it is also subject to our 4-week shakedown period as well. If there isn’t any incident, the 6th of December will mark the end of the 4-week shakedown period, and we shall announce it as well.
Webserf: so I will be talking to you again in a few weeks?
RK: Webserf, you talk to me every day!
Webserf: I know. I was referring to you appearing again on Logikworx News.