Business decisions to migrate data centers can be as a result of IT cost reduction initiative, regulatory requirement, business service risk mitigation plan, a newer data center operations strategy, or other legacy data center environments incapable of hosting modern and dense IT infrastructure.
Among the biggest risks organizations face when transitioning their data center is migrating IT systems and applications. A data Center migration is a highly strategic project that must be executed without impacting business operations, Service Level Agreements, performance / availability and data protection requirements.
Given the dynamic operational environment in which today’s data centers operate, wherein applications and data in the production environment is changing consistently and is being replicated to a remote DR facility on a regular basis, it becomes even more important to look at all the facets of the IT environment and carefully carve the Data Center migration strategy.
Every environment has its own challenges and one migration strategy does not fit every client environment. The bottom line consideration for a good migration strategy is near-zero disruption of business services.
Edarat Group Data Center migration methodology is based on a long experience in similar projects and consists of the following broader steps:
