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, with data security in mind.

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

Planning a Data Center Relocation

A smooth, effective data center relocation begins with a thorough analysis of your existing environment and data center services. This Present Method of Operation (PMO) review examines every aspect of your data center services, including 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 requirements of your data center hosting site.

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 during a data center relocation. 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. There are no surprises in a data center relocation with Consonus.

Developing the implementation plan 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.

Our 10 Step Data Center Relocation Methodology

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. From data center hosting to disaster recovery, Consonus has thought of everything needed to move your sensitive documents to a new data center hosting site with the utmost data security and data protection solutions:

  1. Take Inventory of every component that will be relocated or consolidated.
  2. Address Data Security and data protection solutions 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 data center services are ready, tested and approved.
  9. Back Up Your Data and have a Disaster Recovery plan and Data Protection solutions — just in case.
  10. Migrate — the moment when careful planning and competent project management result in a flawless move to a new data center hosting site.

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