Data Center Relocation and Consolidation · Migration services
We have to leave this data center without disrupting the business.
For CIO, CTO, VP of infrastructure, head of IT operations
When a lease expiry, consolidation program, merger or aging facility forces a move, we plan and run it end to end. We start with a fixed-fee assessment of your inventory and dependencies, build move groups, runbooks and a command-center plan proven through dry runs, then coordinate each move event, validate and recertify the environment, and decommission the old site. We act as a neutral coordinator across your teams, carriers, facilities and suppliers.
How we work
What we do
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Assess
- Review of facility, inventory, network and DR documentation
- Implement an application and infrastructure dependency mapping tool
- Gather and validate the dependency mapping tool output
- Organization-wide application requirements survey
- Infrastructure and application profiling workshops
You receive: Current-state inventory and tiering; application dependency matrix; migration strategy and planning proposal.
Plan
- Move groupings, schedules and timeline
- Migration runbooks and rollback procedures
- Migration communications and organizational change management (OCM) planning
- Gaining-site readiness requirements
- Proof-of-concept testing, walkthroughs and dry runs
You receive: Detailed move plan and runbooks; command center and communications handbook; validation and recertification checklists.
Execute
- Command-center coordination of each move event
- Live migration progress updates and regular stakeholder communications
- Physical and logical moves with on-site Day One support
- Clean-up and decommissioning of the losing site
You receive: Validated, recertified environment; rack elevations and floorplans; final review and lessons learned.
Want to know what this would look like for you?About 30 minutes with a practitioner from the practice that does the work. You’ll leave with a clear view of your next step.
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What you can expect
- Every move completed inside its agreed windowImplementation
- A complete, current picture of the estate and its dependenciesAssessment
- Smaller footprint and end-of-life hardware retiredImplementation
- A stronger foundation for disaster recovery and continuityImplementation
Each outcome is labelled with the stage that delivers it. An assessment or advisory engagement on its own does not include the implementation work.
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DeliverablesDeliverables by phase (9)
Assess
- Current-state inventory and tiering
- Application dependency matrix
- Migration strategy and planning proposal
Plan
- Detailed move plan and runbooks
- Command center and communications handbook
- Validation and recertification checklists
Execute
- Validated, recertified environment
- Rack elevations and floorplans
- Final review and lessons learned
Good to know
Questions leaders ask
Can we start with something smaller than a full engagement?
Yes. Other ways in include an independent review of a migration strategy or plan you already have, program and project management as a neutral coordinator across your teams and vendors, and on-demand engineering for move events and cutovers.
We can do this ourselves. Why bring you in?
Your team knows your environment best, and we want them closely involved. We add capacity and repetition: people who run migrations regularly, a tested method and templates, and a command center that keeps the move on track while your team keeps the business running.
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Data center migration readiness checklist
The questions to answer before a move date is set.
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