Data Center Migration and Support

Organisations should not be bound into rigid contracts with their data centre operator. These organisations should be able to move their infrastructure to sites that are less expensive and can handle growth and changes in demand.

Moreover, infrastructure and operations experts rightly fear that such initiatives will have an impact on the organisation's operations, service level agreements, and application performance availability.

This is due to the fact that a data centre migration involves the transfer of IT systems, workloads, applications, and infrastructure from one operating environment to one or more new target environments. Such as private and public clouds, colocation facilities, edge locations, or an owned and operated data centre.

What exactly is a data centre migration?

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  Data centre migrations can be hard, but they can help companies and service providers save money, get better service from their suppliers, or gain flexibility that they can't get from their current provider.
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  Data centre migrations need extensive planning and coordination across several teams, including network, security, application, server, storage, facilities, and compliance.
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  Migrations are strategic, high-visibility projects that are done with saving money in mind first and foremost. The drawback is that such efforts have an influence on organizations' operations, service level agreements, and application performance availability.
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  Most businesses will find the migration to be the most challenging IT project they've ever done because it could involve every system, including compute, network, and storage. Migrations aren't easy to do, but if you plan and carry them out carefully, you can get measurable benefits.
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  According to Gartner Group, the largest risk to successful migrations is poor preparation. The danger of operational interruptions increases when you dive deeply into migration planning. As a result, certain mission-critical systems or services may be unavailable, resulting in revenue, productivity, and reputation losses. These are, nevertheless, preventable results.
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  To reduce risk, organisations often take longer than projected to finish the transfer or spend more than anticipated. Because an organisation's network and security are so important, organisations will take the necessary precautions to protect data and ensure uptime even if the project takes longer than expected.
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  Collaboration is required for migrations to be successful. Data centre migrations will alter how employees cooperate at work, although temporarily, and may often cause delays due to the requirement for collaboration across cross-functional teams.

Why Choose Avedge?

We assist businesses with the physical transportation of their equipment. We can supply end-to-end physical solutions that range from initial discovery audits to comprehensive cabling solutions.