Twas the night before Monday and all through the room
Geeks bent over keyboards as the deadline did loom.
Tables were strewn with pizza half-eaten
Pop cans and coffee cups and egos now beaten.
The clock was ticking slowly as still they all sat
While visions of sleep flew past just like that.

Alas the migration had run long once again
And the CIO as always had ordered his men:
“You’ll stay here all night ’til the problem you mend
Or when the users come in, they won’t be your friend.”
So the IT staff was pulling yet another all-nighter
And this one now promised to be a nail-biter.

Old servers were being retired from service that day
Replaced with faster ones, but in the old fashioned way.
They were moving terabytes from a old tired SAN
When they found some data not quite in the plan:
Enormous in size and quite critical to all
The data? Very big. Time ’til morning? Very small.

A fix to this problem was very hard to conceive
And everyone on staff was past ready to leave.
Things should have been done in a very different way:
Data can be migrated during a normal business day.
With the data ’a copying while the server still live
Techs can go home from the office well before five.

Move your data and servers whenever you choose
No more costly downtime; no more sanity to lose.
Migrations much easier, no overtime for geeks
Projects that took months will now only take weeks
So don’t be stuck in a mess such as this
Use Double-Take Move, and your life will be bliss.

Merry Christmas all!