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Good luck with the 24/7 goal. It'll be a very costly learning curve to get there. One small hint: think emergency repair, recovering and patching without data and service loss during peak hour operations. Without making misguided judgement calls, "human errors" (as in "not trained and experienced enough") or "typos". If you can't handle that then cross your fingers it'll never happen (Murphy anyone?) because such times can seriously impact all the paper cost savings and PR benefits negatively.

Not to say it can't be done but it'll take blood, sweat and tears to get there and maintain it while it shrinks and grows over time. Certainly when compared to other solutions out there.

One more hint. Consolidation, centralization and project minded and guided deployment and maintaining plans are not always your friend. Organization, procedures and a solid well though out base design are key. Avoid houses of cards if you can unless you like domino effects (one thing leading to another spinning out of control fast). And be very pro-active and prepared towards (future) damage and changes because that will happen more then once. And yes, that'll add to the total overall life cycle cost as well.

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