Planning a Successful Data Center or Computer Equipment Moving Project?

A Data Center or Computer Equipment Moving Project is a daunting experience. Many considerations, such as the pressures and concerns of disruptions to business operations and data losses can weigh heavily on those without experience in moving servers and ether IT and technology equipment.

A competent move requires a competent moving project manager.

Many organizations encounter the possibility of a data center move or relocation due to many reasons such as:

- Need to upgrade or downsize data center and or IT facilities
- Need to identify cheaper data center facilities
- Requirements for redundancy -- business continuity improvements
- Physical data center consolidations as a result of mergers and acquisitions

The following guidelines relate to the critical phases of a data center move or relocation project and are for smaller data centers.

Step 1: Form a multi-disciplinary project team with key advisors and an experience project manager

Step 2: Create a plan that highlights the business rationale and technical "do-ability".

Step 3: Develop a requirements plan.

Step 4: Prepare an exhaustive inventory.

Step 5: Create a detailed space layout and design for the new data center facility.

Step 6: Develop a detailed data center move/relocation project plan.

Step 7: Conduct a post-move audit and process improvement analysis.

Quality, successful of data center moves and relocation projects are highly dependent upon detailed and coordinated planning and execution by a competent lead project manager.

Call Computer Relocation Services today for a free consultation to learn about our Data Center and Computer Equipment Moving Project Management Services.