Data centers are normally relocated when the building it is houses can no longer support the added physical and technological requirements of the countless paraphernalia associated to them. Computer systems, climate control systems like air-conditioning, power systems and backups, storage facilities, telecommunication systems etc are intrinsic elements of every data centre. But many a times you feel that the existing space and backup systems are insufficient to meet the growing needs of the existing data centre. In such a circumstance, there is no other way out than moving into a new location that has enough scope for future expansions and technology additions.
It is not as easy to move your data center as you move your home or household goods through various locations. From packing the things you need a well determined professional team constituting data centre architects, electrical professionals, hardware engineers and a general contractor to look after all activities through the transportation and installation of systems to the new location.
It is imperative that all the professionals engaged in the job have proper understanding of the nature of the job they are involved and work like a team. The process of relocation is a time consuming process. The new building housing the data center must be a standalone structure with enough security and power supply systems. You need to have a futuristic outlook here since it is not practical to more data center every now and then. Make sure that the new center would serve you for at least another ten years before it outgrows the building housing it.
The IT equipment migration team would assist you in the designing of the new data center, installing all computer and backup systems and moving all software and data in an efficient manner.
You need a bi-weekly team review meeting in order to assure soft shift of all articles to the new location and to find out the advancement of work is good or not. By doing this better result of the project will be obtained in a short span of time. You can also keep a status history of all the works in progress in order to find out the growth of each work assigned on each personnel and to check whether they are on track. This will help in another way to set stages for each work to be in an order and being completed in time.
Bruce Currin does Data Center Migrations. Find out more about Data center migration at his website about Datacenter relocation.