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On Feb. 22nd, Aquent will begin moving its data center over multiple weekends. Six IT staffers will use personal vehicles to physically move 44 hardware boxes: servers, routers, switches, firewalls, etc., from its Boston headquarters, and a Waltham facility to a new collocation space in the nearby town of Watertown, Mass.

The global employment services firm is consolidating servers and adding new, space-saving 1U servers to replace traditional rack-mount servers in the process. In preparation, one of two new T1 connections has been added to the collocation space to support some applications that currently run on the local area network. The power is on, and existing frame relay end points now terminate at the new facility. IT has started installing some of the network and communications equipment, the support foundation for two-dozen or so email application server engines that will be moved in the first phase.

Heading up the effort is CIO Larry Bolick. Join him here as he blogs about his ongoing data center building progress.

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