How To Ensure Your Data Center Migration Success
Relocating your business’s data center can be intimidating as many factors must be considered when determining how best to move forward with such a significant project. The risks and challenges to consider when making such a move include, minimizing downtime, security threats, complex network requirements, and financial considerations.
To ensure success in your migration, it’s important to partner with an excellent service provider, like Premier Data Center Services. Premier guides you on how best to transition your operations without any disruption or loss of productivity.
Read on to discover steps you can take to ensure a smooth and successful data center migration!
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Data Center Migration Checklist
Relocating your business’s data center is a complex task that possibly could affect overall operations or invite security risks if not done properly. That’s why it’s essential to partner with an experienced provider like Premier who has developed a proven migration checklist that ensures a successful migration!
Premier’s Migration Checklist:
- Develop a Migration Business Case: Together, we will determine the primary corporate advantages, financial gains, and improved business productivity.
- Define a Strategy and Goals: To ensure that we meet your objectives while minimizing application downtime and risk, our team will evaluate the variables to create a high-level roadmap best suited for you.
- Assess the Environment: Our team of experts will thoroughly assess and document your infrastructure, applications, networks, security measures, relationships between processes, and other related elements.
- Transfer Knowledge: Our project managers and subject matter experts meticulously interview all involved parties to understand your environment comprehensively.
- Design and Buildout: Our data center specialists collaborate with your infrastructure team to construct and design a modern environment that satisfies both short-term and long-term needs.
- Develop a Run Book: The run book is an extensive and comprehensive guide to migration, featuring a range of tactical details such as schedule, contacts, inventory, and action items that will ensure the successful completion of each migration event.
- Map Resources: At Premier, we identify and incorporate your resources into the overall project agenda. We also recognize any missing pieces our team can fill to ensure a successful outcome.
- Develop Testing Procedures: To ensure our process is top-notch, we adhere to best practices regarding building suitable testing protocols and obtaining the necessary stakeholder approvals.
- Make The Move: Execute the migration process detailed in the runbook for successful completion.
- Post-Migration Testing & Analysis: We guarantee that all systems and processes have been thoroughly tested before the cutover, with additional testing as necessary.
Experts At What We Do: Premier Data Center Services
Whether you are planning a data center build, relocating to a new site, growing your infrastructure, or need to consolidate, at Premier Data Center Services, we have the expertise you are looking for and the focus on service you expect.
With decades of experience in the data center industry, our team understands what is needed to ensure a successful migration. We work with businesses of all sizes to make their data center transition as seamless and secure as possible.
Contact us today to discuss how we can help you make the most of your data center migration!
Featured Testimonial
Some of the work they did that was surprising to us included the following:
- The move execution was seamless. With VERY LITTLE input from us, they planned the move, the re-organization and re-cabling of our infrastructure.
- Prior to the move they guided us through the ordering of power and network cables that are appropriately lengthened for our server locations. Previously, the bottom of our cabinets were a puddle of very long heavy black power cords.
- They delivered to us an infrastructure that was cabled in an organized way we could have previously only imagined. Over the years servers come and go and the network cabling can become a “rats nest”. When Mark’s team was cabling in the new location, we found that they had pre-sized and pre-labeled every network cable we would need for the new location. Now we have great airflow.
In summary, if your time has any value, you cannot move your own equipment more affordably than with Premier Data Center Services. You will spend countless more hours doing the work that they can execute so quickly because of their experience. Further, even if you wanted to move your own system, there is no way that the end result of your efforts will be an infrastructure of equipment that is so well organized, cabled and labeled.”
