Tips For Data Center Relocation Success

by | Jul 21, 2023 | Uncategorized

Data center relocation can be overwhelming for your IT department, requiring meticulous planning and execution that consumes valuable staff time and resources. This blog post provides valuable tips for a seamless transition. By following these guidelines and...

DATA CENTER STRATEGY

Premier can help you determine your requirements, perform cost/benefit analysis to determine whether to build, outsource or consolidate, determine the return on investment and total cost of ownership, and provide recommendations on the proper course of action.

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DATA CENTER ASSESSMENT

Premier can evaluate the current state of your data center's space layout, power distribution, HVAC systems, and operations to establish a capability and risk baseline. As a result, we will create a recommended plan of remediation to ensure your systems and operations are running at optimal levels.

Premier will develop:

- Current Site Baseline Analysis
- Space Analysis
- Power Distribution Analysis
- HVAC Analysis
- Capacity Analysis
- Risk Analysis
- Operations Analysis

With these analyses, you will have a comprehensive view of your data center’s capabilities, risks and a roadmap for enhancements that can have a measurable and immediate impact of your facility’s performance.

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DATA CENTER DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION

Whether it is new construction, an expansion or a renovation, Premier can help you design and optimize a data center solution that will meet your needs today, with the extensibility to grow with your business.

Leveraging new technologies, we can help you gain greater capacity and density while reducing your overall physical footprint, carbon footprint and costs resulting in significant ROI for your organization.

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DATA CENTER MIGRATIONS & CONSOLIDATIONS

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 and Migration Checklist provides an end-to-end solution ensuring the little things don’t get lost in the transition and ensures your organizations migration success.

Our team also includes, structured cabling personnel, specialized movers and network and systems engineers that can assist your staff in bringing routers, SANs, and servers back on line promptly and correctly. Premier is with you every step of the way, ensuring a seamless and well executed migration.

Our core expertise incorporates:

- Data Center Operations
- Network Planning
- Current State Analysis
- Rack and Electrical Load Design
- Logistics Planning and Execution
 

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DATA CENTER OPERATIONS - SMART HANDS

Premier’s Smart Hands solution brings our data center management expertise to your IT organization. This enables our clients to focus their staffs on their core competencies. Proper data center management requires specialized skills and experience. Managing space, power and cooling are skills not commonly found in an IT organization, yet they are critical for successful data center operation.

Premier offers customized, scalable managed data center solutions which can fit any IT budget. Reduce your risk, increase your staff’s efficiency and maximize your data centers utilization with Premier.

View Premier Smart Hands PDF

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FEDERAL AGENCY

- Data Center Relocation Migration
- Strategy, Planning and Execution
- 1 Site, 140 cabinets, 1270 devices

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GLOBAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY

Facilities Relocation

- Data Center
- Top Level Project Management: Move Planning, Move Execution
- 250 devices – 2 Move Events

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UTILITIES SERVICE PROVIDER

Office Relocation

- Data Center Migration
- Project Management: Move Planning, Move Execution
- 400 devices – 5 Move Events

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LARGE MULTI-SPECIALTY MEDICAL CENTER

- Core IT/Data Center Relocation
- Project Management: Planning and Execution
- 1,000 devices/25 staff– 15 Move Events

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GLOBAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY

- Project Management - Global Data Center Strategy Development, Basel, Switzerland
- Project Management - Site Selection, Design & Migration, Emeryville, CA
- 200+ devices, 36 cabinets
- Project Management- Site Selection, Design, Boston, MA
- Disaster Recovery Site, 30 cabinets

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SPECIALTY PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY

- Data Center Design & Build
- Project Manager/SME: Data Center Design, Move Planning
- 2 Sites

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