Data Center Migration
Data center migration is a general, overarching term describing the process of moving IT systems, facilities infrastructure, and operational activities from an existing location to a new target location.
In today’s market place, data center migrations are frequently referred to as consolidating, transitioning, or relocating data center operations. Are there significant differences or just semantics?
The ability to differentiate between the various types of data center moves is fundamental to understanding what you are trying to accomplish.
Why does it matter?
This may seem pedantic, but we've seen organizations spend millions with no results -- all because their mission lacked focus.
It facilitates a more intelligent conversation within an organization, its stakeholders, executive sponsors and vendors. As such, it brings your mission into focus.
Without focus, an organization can’t identify goals, objectives, potential roadblocks and needed resources. Resources and money can be easily wasted chasing irrelevant details.
Take a look:
Data Center Migration Types
Data Center Consolidation
Data Center Consolidations reduce the number of physical data centers and/or the number of servers being used by either decommissioning legacy servers, repurposing servers and/or the reduction in servers via virtualization.
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Data Center Transition
Data Center Transitions move operational activities from one organization or business unit to another, typically to an outsourced, collocation or cloud computing environment.
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Data Center Relocation
Data Center Relocations move infrastructure from their current location to a new location. It involves only 2 data centers: the sending data center (current location) and the receiving data center (new location).
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