Data Center Relocation
What questions should you be asking to get a successful Data Center Relocation plan underway?
We all love the 6 WWWWWH questions that are key to information gathering- in no particular order:
- Who- Who will move it?
- What- What is it that they will move?
- When- When will they move it?
- Where- Where will they move it from and to?
- Why- Why are we moving it?
- How- How will it get moved?
All of these questions are deeply connected to each other.
What is one of the first questions to get the conversations rolling. Our team will work with yours to complete a data center audit of existing inventory. The inventory helps to get everyone on the same page for what will be moved, what will be refreshed, what will be retired. The inventory audit will the basis for the rest of the questions.
Each line item on the inventory will need to have these questions answered:
- What does it do?
- Who is the owner?
- How long can it be offline?
- Move it? Refresh it? Retire it?
From the above, you can see how each item snowballs into more questions. Our team will work with you to build the detailed, step by step plan required for a successful data center move. Give us a call, find us on LinkedIn, or drop an email and we’ll schedule a time to talk.