Data Center Relocation Projects Are Not Created Equal

Gartner Group studied more than 70% of the Global 1000 organizations and found they will have to either move or modify their data center facilities significantly during the next five years.  The term data center is such a broad word to use.  A company’s data center can vary in size and complexity, ranging from a small room to a 40,000 square foot dedicated building.

For many smaller companies, basements and back rooms often serve as data center space in the place of dedicated facilities.  This often times leads to inefficiencies, reliability issues and potential security risks.  Increasingly the consensus in the IT world is that it makes sense for small and midsize businesses to move to an outsourced data center model, which allows a company to achieve the performance of an enterprise-grade facility rather than continuing to operate in sub optimal conditions.

For many smaller companies, running a data center facility does not make financial sense, due to their server footprint being too small to justify a dedicated building. But their reliability needs may be the same as a large enterprise, so they choose a better environment other than their current.

All companies’ dynamics change, and with this there is becomes a realization that they may need extra help, and this requirement may be by having an outside resource fill that missing link. That’s not just in supplemental staff, but it may also be the need for space because your business is booming.  Then relocating your data center may be the best option for you.

Data centers can be wonderful, offering peace of mind when a company needs a stable environment to house their computer systems so that they may run constantly with protection, upkeep, backup power, communications connections, environmental controls and security devices.  If your company wants to put everything in one place, a data center can be a great solution. 

All too often clients don’t think of the potential problems that could arise by leaving a data center in the years to come.  A successful data center move is no accident, and headache filled relocation's can be reduced by proper insight and planning.  Data center moves can be one of the most risky if the whole project is not properly managed.  What if a rack of production servers fails to come back online after being moved due to improper handling?

This and many other items will be touched upon in our next article Data Center Relocation- Not All Relocation's Are Not Created Equal.  NCWS will offer steps you can take to streamline your data center relocation and offer insight.