首席信息官 Matt Hough 讨论了一个需要一年时间才能完成的直接迁移，并帮助 Cintas 做好了利用 AI 和其他创新的准备。
作为工作服租赁和销售、急救用品、清洁产品和培训服务的提供商，Cintas 的历史可以追溯到几代人之前，是许多制服劳动力的固定成员。该公司的卡车在全国各地运输医务人员、安全团队和设施服务专业人员使用的制服和设备是很常见的。通过 11,000 多条分销路线为超过 <> 万客户提供服务，管理 Cintas 的 IT 运营是一项艰巨的任务，而直接迁移云迁移同样是一项艰巨的任务。
在本次播客中，Cintas 的首席信息官 Matt Hough 讨论了与 Lemongrass 合作的为期一年的项目，该项目旨在将大约 200 台服务器和一个未压缩的数据库（超过 130 TB 的容量）迁移到 Google Cloud，而不会造成任何停机。
Cintas 在商业产品和服务方面拥有悠久的历史，并且运营相当广泛。Matt，您能让我们的观众更多地了解 Cintas 的范围吗？
是的，我肯定会的。Cintas 是商业服务的领导者，这意味着我们出租租赁服装。我们提供急救设备，我们提供消防检查和定制服装，称为设计集体，我们帮助超过 1,000,000 名客户为工作日做好准备。
在我们讨论您进行的迁移想法之前，您能谈谈 Cintas 的 IT 运营情况吗？Cintas 的运营，因为你的工作有一个非常非常真实世界的组成部分，在需求和处理你在 IT 方面所经历的一切方面，它会有什么不同？
Cintas 的 IT 传统上是一种数据中心类型的组织，这体现在广泛使用传统硬件和系统上。想想 AS400 为我们的 500 多个地点提供服务。随着当今现代技术的兴起，ERP系统帮助我们提高效率，它确实推动了IT组织从订单接受者，数据中心类型的组织转变为更多的业务合作伙伴或具有业务头脑的IT人员。因此，我们可以帮助提供技术和流程来推动我们的增长。
尽管您可以在不涉及国家机密的情况下与我们的读者分享，但在移民之前，您的事情结构是什么，是什么导致最初的对话甚至开始考虑这个想法？
嗯，我们有一个非常大的SAP足迹，由一个拥有裸机型基础设施的合作伙伴托管。您知道，挑战在于，在提高业务能力方面，我们没有像以前那样灵活。我们不得不提出请求，尝试增加 CPU 或硬件，或者启动新系统来尝试新事物。这是相当昂贵和及时的。在试图以快速的方式提供价值方面，我们有点陷入困境。因此，我们一直在寻找一个合作伙伴来帮助我们变得更加敏捷，这样我们就可以更快地添加更多功能。
英文原文：
How Cintas Migrated to Google Cloud with Help from Lemongrass
CIO Matt Hough discusses a lift-and-shift migration that took a year to complete and helped prep Cintas to take advantage of AI and other innovations.
With a history that stretches back multiple generations as a provider of work apparel rentals and sales, first aid supplies, cleaning products, and training services, Cintas is a fixture in many uniformed workforces. It is common to see the company’s trucks across country transporting uniforms and equipment used by medical personnel, safety teams, and facilities services professionals. Serving more than one million customers through more than 11,000 distribution routes, managing IT operations at Cintas is a substantial task — and a lift-and-shift cloud migration is likewise no small feat.
In this podcast session, Matt Hough, CIO at Cintas, discusses the year-long project with Lemongrass to get some 200 servers and an uncompressed database that clocked in at more than 130 terabytes onto Google Cloud without suffering any downtime.
Cintas has quite the history in business products and services and pretty extensive operations. Matt, can you give our audience more of a sense of Cintas’ scope?
Yeah, I sure will. Cintas is the leader in business services, which means we rent rental garments. We provide first aid equipment, we provide fire inspection and bespoke clothing called design collective, and we help our over 1,000,000 customers get ready for the workday.
Can you talk about what the IT operations for Cintas were like before we discuss the idea of the migration that you undertook? Cintas’ operations, since you have a very, very real-world component to what you do, how might that be a bit different in terms of the needs and handling all that you go through in terms of the IT side of things?
IT at Cintas was classically a data center type of organization and that was manifested because of the extensive use of legacy hardware and systems. Think AS400 servicing our over 500 locations. With the modern technology today precipitating an ERP system to help us become more efficient, it really pushed the IT organization to change from an order taker, data center type organization to be more of a business partner or business minded IT person. So, we can help provide the technology and the processes to fuel our growth.
As much as you can share with our readers without getting into state secrets, what was the structure of things for you before going into migration and what led to the initial conversations to even begin thinking about the idea?
Well, we had a very large SAP footprint hosted by a partner that had a bare metal type infrastructure. You know, the challenge was we weren’t as nimble as we could have been when it came to increasing business capabilities. We had to make requests to try to increase CPU or hardware or spin up new systems to try out new things. And that was pretty costly and timely. We were kind of stuck in terms of trying to provide value in a quick way. So, we were looking for a partner to help us become a little bit more agile so we can actually add more capabilities quicker.
