1) Consolidation of two data centers • With the new acquisition, the company wanted to decommission the acquired company’s data center to reduce the overhead costs of managing two data centers • The consolidation required the migration of device configurations from the acquired entity’s data center (A) to the existing data center (B) • The project also required scaling and the addition of new devices in data center B. The company had to migrate 700+ applications that were load-balanced in data center A to data center B • The migration process involved critical e-commerce applications that end users use for purchasing and payment transactions 2) Potential errors, delays, and costs due to manual migration • The client anticipated that the configuration migration process would be manual

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