Data Center Relocation

Relocating a data center — whether due to expansion, cost savings, or other business conditions — is a significant undertaking, requiring a specialized data center relocation and project management methodology.

Consonus and Hi-Tech Transportation: A Unique Data Center Relocation Partnership

Together with its Data Center Relocation partner, Hi-Tech Transportation, Consonus brings order to the planning, documentation, development, testing, and logistics involved in data center relocation.

Whether you have or lack internal resources to assist in the planning and execution of a data center relocation, Consonus offers the services that address your continuum of needs: 

• Basic Rack to Rack Box move
• Transportation
• Cable Management
• Turnkey Relocation Service
• OEM Certification
• Project Management and Consulting
• Disaster Recovery

A smooth, effective data center relocation begins with a thorough analysis of your existing environment. This Present Method of Operation (PMO) review examines the servers, applications, infrastructure, storage, and interactions and/or interdependencies of data center components. We also review Service Level Agreements (SLAs) as well as your current processes to ensure understand thorough understanding of the environment you must support.

Next, a Desired Future State (DFS) document is created to identify and record the requirements for success. The DFS incorporates any changes to make during the relocation, such as virtualization, technology upgrades, process evolution, or amended SLAs.

In the Design Process, we collaborate with you as we build a roadmap to move from one location to the other. We identify and document every activity that must occur and any detail that must be addressed. This includes but is not limited to software licenses, hardware purchases, cable plans, and network changes. This step in the process affirms or identifies for the need for any budget adjustments.

Developing the implementation pan is the last step in planning a data center relocation. Here, we coordinate with you to devise a schedule that details the responsible party, prerequisites, timeframes, and resources required.

Following are the 10 most critical tasks that any data center relocation must address. Consonus project management experts work together with you to ensure that all 10 of these tasks are meticulously and thoroughly addressed: 

1. Take Inventory of every component that will be relocated or consolidated.
2. Address Security to ensure the business remains un-compromised.
3. Perform Detailed Planning to maximize the efficiency and budget of the relocation.
4. Assess Budget to adequately address construction, renovation, site closure, equipment, and staff.
5. Communicate Precisely in RFPs, SOWs  and Contracts – Vague RFPs create poor SOWs. Partner with a Data Center Relocation specialist right from the start.
6. Partner with Data Center Relocation Specialists according to your continuum of needs.
7. Plan the Move, Move On Plan to prepare and engage all components — including staff.
8. Prepare the New Facility, Close the Old One to ensure that all systems are ready, tested and approved.
9. Back Up Your Data and have a Disaster Recovery plan — just in case.
10. Migrate — the moment when careful planning and competent project management result in a flawless move.