MIGRATE WITH CONFIDENCE
Choosing the right partner is critical in establishing a seamless data center migration. Success lies deep within the details.
The data center is the core of your technology, housing your business’s most critical data and systems. Its performance has a broad impact across your organization and plays an essential role in the function of your business.
Premier Data Center Services offers the expertise and services you need to analyze, plan, design, consolidate and support the key components of your data center.
Premier’s 10 steps will ensure your organization’s migration success.
Moving or consolidating a datacenter can be one of the most challenging projects for an IT department to undertake. The complexity of structuring the move, while considering uptime, application interdependency and risk can significantly impact business operations if not executed properly.
Premier’s expertise provides an end-to-end solution ensuring the little things don’t get lost in the transition. We analyze, plan, design, and execute the key components of your data center migration – communicating closely with you every step of the way – until your infrastructure has been safely and securely moved from your data centers to ours.
Whether you are planning a data center build, relocating to a new site, growing your infrastructure or need to consolidate, Premier has the expertise you are looking for and the focus on service you expect.
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THE 10 STEPS TO MIGRATION SUCCESS
STEP 1
Migration Business Case
| CUSTOMER ROLE | MIGRATION PARTNER |
| Open and honest discussion on KPI’s, budget numbers, risk tolerance and current data center environments. | Listen, document key data to be used in the creation of a business case deliverable that clearly defines the right next steps. |
STEP 2
Strategy & Goals
| CUSTOMER ROLE | MIGRATION PARTNER |
| Define what a successful migration looks like to you, so we have a benchmark to measure success at the end. | Vet objectives and vision to ensure viability, identify high-level roadmap to align project components to customer vision. |
STEP 3
Assessment of Environment
| CUSTOMER ROLE | MIGRATION PARTNER |
| Key is to hold nothing back. Seeing it all – old and new – is critical to gaining a full view of dependencies in a complex world. | Comprehensive deep dive on infrastructure, applications, networks, security, dependencies, and more.. |
STEP 4
Knowledge Transfer
| CUSTOMER ROLE | MIGRATION PARTNER |
| First day on the job? Been there for 20 years? You know more about your environment than we do. Help us learn how it works. | Our project management experts conduct thorough interviews with all project stakeholders to ensure maximum awareness. |
STEP 5
Design & Buildout
| CUSTOMER ROLE | MIGRATION PARTNER |
| Provide engineering and design documentation of all existing and proposed data center environments. | Vet designs, conduct white board sessions to make sure we are on the same page, ensure long-term scalability of new environment |
STEP 6
Run Book Development
| CUSTOMER ROLE | MIGRATION PARTNER |
| Review of deliverable, provide feedback on who does what, timelines and other details. | Creation of the run book – a thorough, detailed list of tactical migration action items that drives the success of the move itself. |
STEP 7
Resource Mapping
| CUSTOMER ROLE | MIGRATION PARTNER |
| Financial / human resource commitment to what is proposed in the run book. | Integrate and vet proposed customer resources, fill in the resource gaps, in-depth run book communication with all parties. |
STEP 8
Development of Testing Procedures
| CUSTOMER ROLE | MIGRATION PARTNER |
| Communicate any/all existing testing programs and procedures and effectiveness, provide vision for new testing procedures. | Use best practices to develop testing procedures that are right for the specific customer, get buy-in at all levels. |
STEP 9
Making the Move
| CUSTOMER ROLE | MIGRATION PARTNER |
| Depends on resource map as to what role the customer plays, at a minimum helps with communication, accountability. | Depends on the SOW, but can range up to an end-to-end solution that spans application prep to moving physical assets. |
STEP 10
Post-Migration Testing & Analysis
| CUSTOMER ROLE | MIGRATION PARTNER |
| Re-commit to Step 5 and Step 8 deliverables, review dashboards and deliverables to ensure alignment with expectations. | Thorough testing and re-testing to ensure everything is ready for the cutover, actionable reporting deliverables. |
