Data Center Relocation Services
It’s not easy relocating a data center for any reason…be it a merger or acquisition, a planned part of your digital transformation journey, or it could be as simple as your co-lo lease is up.
It’s a complicated process with a lot of logistical steps you might have not considered like interdependency analyses, staging, infrastructure freezing periods, move documentation, using bonded transport services, and other organizational details. But we know. For the IIS Data Center Relocation Team, it’s what we do, it’s all we do.
IIS End-to-End Relocation Services
Whether you need to move a single rack or an entire data center. Whether your move is across town, across the country, or across the globe. Trust IIS to partner with equipment manufacturers like HPE, Oracle, and Dell to flawlessly, securely relocate your hardware, applications, and data with minimal disruption to business operations.
Our proven Four Phase Move Methodology provides a repeatable framework to manage data center relocations for customers large and small:
Discovery
- Comprehensive physical asset inventory with all dependencies identified
- Application, server, and storage migration checklists with black-out periods
- Validation of current and desired future state and benchmarks for success
Orchestration
- Precise move scheduling and planning on a 90-day timeline
- Team roles and responsibilities assigned to stakeholders for each activity
- Destination site surveys and preparation
Planning
- Documentation of data/storage migration and connectivity requirements
- Risk analysis and development of contingency plans
- Move day preparation including infrastructure freezes and equipment tagging
Execution
- Professional equipment de-installation, and secure transport via bonded truck
- White glove un-boxing, re-racking, and cable dressing
- Servers and applications released back into production upon successful post-relocation testing and validation
