MEMO

To: All YourHomeDecorator.com staff
From: Hector Contreras, IT Department Head
Re: New data center

As you may know, because of our company's rapid growth, we have been building a new data center to host our intranet, databases, and business applications. [1] Today I am pleased to announce that the facility will be up and running this Thursday, November 6. The superior processing power of the new data center will greatly improve the performance, security, and reliability of the website as well as our intranet. [2]

However, migrating all of our data to the new equipment will involve briefly taking the entire system offline. [3] The process will begin on Thursday at 3:00 p.m., so employees (other than IT staff) will be free to leave work at that time. We are confident that we can finish the process before 9:00 the following morning so that the workday can proceed as usual. However, we will notify you if that changes. If you have any questions or concerns, please direct them to me at hcontreras@yourhome.com, or call extension 4846. [4]