Common use of Dry Run Clause in Contracts

Dry Run. The Dry Run is a rehearsal of the Hot Cut. The objective is to simulate, as closely as possible, the final cutover with the given exception that physical moves do not occur (tape library, etc.). The general plan is as follows: • Quiesce systems at Symetra • For tape copy: Perform disk-to-tape copies at Symetra Transport copy tapes to ACS Perform tape-to-disk restores at ACS • Cut network over to ACS • Transport tape library to ACS • Perform system customization at ACS • Perform Customer Application Acceptance Test • Make “go” decision • Start production processing at ACS • Transport off-site tapes to ACS vault ACS will develop the overall execution plan. Symetra is responsible for developing and executing the Symetra acceptance test plan. This event will require participation from ACS technical, operations, and network groups; Symetra technical, operations, network, and applications groups; and possibly a select group of business users. When using a tape copy approach, production system outages at will be limited to TBD hours plus tape transport time plus the amount of test time defined by Symetra. During this time, network components will be pointed to ACS and be unavailable for production. Table of Contents