Goal

Project manage the design and build of a major new global Redhat Linux platform for deployment to Nokia-owned and colo data centres, subject to stringent SLA and performance metrics whilst maintaining global high-availability.

Background

The platform was required to meet the requirements of the new Nokia-Yahoo partnership. As such it had major visibility within Nokia up to CEO level. EigenForge was tasked with project managing the delivery of this new platform within Nokia's Location Based Services division. The solution had to include a number of applications from Nokia and Navteq, and these applications were tightly subjected to a set of performance metrics defined by Yahoo. It also had to be securely and automatically bootable from bare-metal to fully working applications with accompanying data ingestion in dark global data centres.

Execution

There was no hardware or operating system stack in place. EigenForge's immediate task was to oversee both the development of such a stack and assist in the procurement of the hardware for the new platform from the ground up.

Tasks included:

• assembling a team of RedHat Engineers and a Solution Architect on-site from RedHat for the development of the operating system stack
• managing RedHat in the design of the solution to ensure it met Nokia's requirements and expectations
• over-seeing the integration of RedHats new KVM virtualisation stack
• co-ordinating, managing and chairing meetings between RedHat and Nokia's internal teams (Networks, Applications, Navteq)
• Working with the vendor in procuring a signifanct number of blade centres for global deployment suject to a tight deadline. We helped save the client a 7-figure sum in the procurment process.
• co-ordinating performance trials and providing advice on how to under-take benchmarking
• instigating and critically appraising technical support documentation from RedHat on behalf of Nokia's Tier1 to 3 support teams.

The project was delivered on time and under budget to the client.

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